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| <news_item> | |
| <title> Gorilla Corporation acquires YouNameItWeIntegrateIt.com </title> | |
| <content> | |
| <par> Today, Gorilla Corporation announced that it will purchase | |
| YouNameItWeIntegrateIt.com. The shares of | |
| YouNameItWeIntegrateIt.com dropped $3.00 as a result of this | |
| announcement. | |
| </par> | |
| <par> As a result of this acquisition, the CEO of | |
| YouNameItWeIntegrateIt.com Bill Smarts resigned. He did not | |
| announce what he will do next. Sources close to | |
| YouNameItWeIntegrateIt.com hint that Bill Smarts might be | |
| taking a position in Foobar Corporation. | |
| </par> | |
| <par>YouNameItWeIntegrateIt.com is a leading systems integrator | |
| that enables <quote>brick and mortar</quote> companies to | |
| have a presence on the web. | |
| </par> | |
| </content> | |
| <date>1-20-2000</date> | |
| <author>Mark Davis</author> | |
| <news_agent>News Online</news_agent> | |
| </news_item> | |
| <news_item> | |
| <title>Foobar Corporation releases its new line of Foo products | |
| today</title> | |
| <content> | |
| <par> Foobar Corporation releases the 20.9 version of its Foo | |
| products. The new version of Foo products solve known | |
| performance problems which existed in 20.8 line and | |
| increases the speed of Foo based products tenfold. It also | |
| allows wireless clients to be connected to the Foobar | |
| servers. | |
| </par> | |
| <par> The President of Foobar Corporation announced that they | |
| were proud to release 20.9 version of Foo products and | |
| they will upgrade existing customers <footnote>where | |
| service agreements exist</footnote> | |
| promptly. TheAppCompany Inc. immediately announced that it | |
| will release the new version of its products to utilize | |
| the 20.9 architecture within the next three months. | |
| </par> | |
| <figure> | |
| <title>Presidents of Foobar Corporation and TheAppCompany | |
| Inc. Shake Hands</title> <image source="handshake.jpg"/> | |
| </figure> | |
| </content> | |
| <date>1-20-2000</date> | |
| <news_agent>Foobar Corporation</news_agent> | |
| </news_item> | |
| <news_item> <title>Foobar Corporation is suing Gorilla Corporation for | |
| patent infringement </title> | |
| <content> | |
| <par> In surprising developments today, Foobar Corporation | |
| announced that it is suing Gorilla Corporation for patent | |
| infringement. The patents that were mentioned as part of the | |
| lawsuit are considered to be the basis of Foobar | |
| Corporation's <quote>Wireless Foo</quote> line of products. | |
| </par> | |
| <par>The tension between Foobar and Gorilla Corporations has | |
| been increasing ever since the Gorilla Corporation acquired | |
| more than 40 engineers who have left Foobar Corporation, | |
| TheAppCompany Inc. and YouNameItWeIntegrateIt.com over the | |
| past 3 months. The engineers who have left the Foobar | |
| corporation and its partners were rumored to be working on | |
| the next generation of server products and applications which | |
| will directly compete with Foobar's Foo 20.9 servers. Most of | |
| the engineers have relocated to Hawaii where the Gorilla | |
| Corporation's server development is located. | |
| </par> | |
| </content> | |
| <date>1-20-2000</date> | |
| <news_agent>Reliable News Corporation</news_agent> | |
| </news_item> | |
| </news> |