Walter de Brouwer - Internet

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In 1996 De Brouwer was one of the founders of PING, later sold to EUnet. In April 1998 the company was sold to Qwest Communications International, which in turn later merged EUnet in with the ill fated KPNQwest. In 1999, his electronic employment site Jobscape merged with eight similar sites to make up Stepstone. Stepstone went public with a price tag of £365m on the London Stock Exchange. In 2008, De Brouwer set up OLPC Europe, the European branch of One Laptop per Child.