complicated intricate web of social connections between people with both direct and indirect links to different people and groups  ex. facebook - connects friends with randoms
complicated, intricate web of social connections between people -direct and indirect links to different people and groups -facebook, linkedin (feature both immediate and distant networks)
The legal settlement resolves the private anti-trust lawsuit filed against Microsoft in January 2002 by AOL Time Warner 's America Online unit on behalf of its Netscape subsidiary .