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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 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> |