Rise and Decline of the Titans 1 – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #533 by Asrar Qureshi
Rise and Decline of the Titans 1 – Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #533 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues! This is Pharma Veterans’ Blog Post #533. Pharma Veterans welcome sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large. Pharma Veterans Blog is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress, the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here. When I started using internet in 1994, the main search engines were Yahoo and Netscape Navigator. They were the best known and the most used. There were couple of other smaller options. Then Microsoft launched its Internet Explorer which has now been replaced with Microsoft Edge. Most popular email was Yahoo mail and for instant messaging, Yahoo messenger was used. Sabeer Bhatia in India invented Hotmail which became hot quickly. Microsoft purchased Hotmail from him at a publicly declared price of 400 million US$ and released it in 1996. Bhatia later developed another em...