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<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 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>
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