Corporate Profile for Desktop.com, dated Aug. 27, 1999.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services. -0-
Published Date: Aug. 27, 1999
Company Name: Desktop.com
Address: 273 Ninth Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Main Telephone
Number: 415-701-0200
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL) www.desktop.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Katie Burke
Chief Financial
Officer: Karen Drebes
Investor Relations
Business number: 415-701-0200
E-mail address: info@desktop.com
Public Relations
Contact: Holly Rossetti
Business number: 415-701-0200 x22
E-mail address: holly@desktop.com
Industry: Internet
-0- Company description: Desktop.com A earlier Web-based service that provided a family of applications written in JavaScript. Downloaded into any Web browser, the software had the look and feel of regular office applications. The service was formed in 1999 and went out of business in 2001. See virtual desktop services. is a free, Web-based service that provides a powerful new graphical interface See GUI. and application platform for the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the . From any net-connected PC, Desktop.com users can create and access their own customized Web desktop that looks and feels just like a PC desktop, so that navigating (networking, hypertext) navigating - Finding your way around. Often used of the Internet, particularly the World-Wide Web. A browser is a tool for navigating hypertext documents. to their favorite sites is as easy as clicking on icons. From their Web-based desktop, Desktop.com users can also select and use a growing number of next-generation Web applications built on the Desktop.com platform - a platform designed so that anyone can contribute an application to the service. Desktop.com was founded in December December: see month. , 1998 and is privately held and headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . |
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