India’s flagbearing infotech company, Infosys is one of 25 individuals or companies honoured on Friday as a pioneer of the dot com era alongside iconic names like Apple, Google, Twitter and Microsoft.
As part of its celebration of 25 years of Internet innovation, VeriSign, long-time operator of the .com domain, has announced the “.com 25” -- a list of pioneers, honoured for their contributions to the development of the Internet.
The other .com 25 honorees are: AOL (Steve Case); Alibaba Group; Amazon (Jeff Bezos); Andy Grove; Apple (Steve Jobs); Baidu; Cisco (John Chambers); Craigslist (Craig Newmark); eBay (Pierre Omidyar); eTrade; Facebook (Mark Zuckerberg); Google (Larry Page & Sergey Brin); Jim Clark; Microsoft/MSN/Gates Foundation (Bill Gates); MySpace; Napster (Shawn Fanning); Netscape (Marc Andreessen); Paypal; Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Scott McNealy); Tim Berners-Lee; Twitter; Vint Cerf; Yahoo, (Jerry Yang and David Filo); and, YouTube.

As part of the celebration, VeriSign today also announced a grant program to promote and foster new research that strengthens the Internet infrastructure. VeriSign will fund four $75,000 research grants to be awarded this fall. The recipients will present their findings at a Washington, DC, symposium in June 2011.

See http://www.25yearsof.com/grants 

May 28 2010