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AOL's burgeoning empire

The online giant hints at plans to link the Netscape browser with an online service, details its moves into broadband, and revamps its already mammoth e-commerce business.

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A day after America Online launches its new version of Netscape Communicator, the company hints at plans to link the browser with an online service, details its moves into broadband, and revamps its already mammoth e-commerce business.

 
AOL weighs online service for Netscape
America Online may launch a Netscape-branded online service by adding Net connections to the Navigator browser, according to an analyst's report.

AOL wants you to spend even more online
news analysis America Online is revamping its e-commerce strategy in an attempt to make its users spend even more than the whopping $1.8 billion they forked over in the first three months of 1999.

AOL to introduce shopping service
America Online says it will introduce this summer a new online shopping service to capitalize on its momentum as a destination for e-commerce among consumers.

New Communicator promotes Digital City
For a company that thinks the browser market is "dead," America Online has been quick to leverage its newly acquired Communicator browser to drive traffic to a key online property.