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Upstart Struggles With 2,800 lb Gorillas

When you're an upstart, it can be extraordinarily difficult to compete with the big guys. Nobody knows that better than Jerry Anders, CTO of Saratoga, Calif.-based Javeo Corporation, who claims his company has been run over not once, but twice-first by Google, and most recently by Sun Microsystems.

Yahoo/AOL Discussion Nothing New

Reports are surfacing all over the place about Yahoo now wanting a piece of the AOL pie. AOL has been in negotiations with Microsoft for some time and recently, Google and Comcast a joint venture to go after a minority stake in AOL also. The real deal is that it's all old news.