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IBM takes on Sun's server dominance
News With dot-com companies collapsing and corporations delaying computing projects, IBM no longer looks as insulated from economic troubles that have afflicted Compaq and others with a heavier dependence on PCs.
[March 20, 2001, 8:43]
Google employees set to cash in
News Yachts and power boats, however, may not catch the tailwind of a Google IPO, unlike in the days of the dot-com boom. That's in sharp contrast to the dot-com days, when Happel sold a 46-foot power boat to someone in his thirties.
[August 20, 2004, 10:25]
News Schmooze: Tech industry gets re-stated
News Dot-com failure pace slows In the meantime, the failure rate of dot-coms has slowed somewhat. The main surprise here is that there are still enough dot-coms left for there to be up to 20 failures a month.
[July 12, 2002, 11:11]
More unrest seen among tech workers
News Steve Gang, who led the study, said managers would be wise to look back at some of the workplace philosophies and customs that evolved during the dot-com era in order to counteract some of the study's findings.
[February 9, 2003, 16:46]
Ebookers still travelling the path to profitability
News The positive news is a contrast to the many dot-coms, such as rival travel site Deckchair.com, who have been laying off staff in response to a sector-wide slump. Over ten million people have visited Ebookers so far this year, compared to the nearly...
[April 30, 2001, 14:26]
Hiring isn't a 2003 CIO resolution
News In 1999, at the height of the dot-com boom, Matrix was placing two to three contractors for every permanent position in its Atlanta market. Whereas in the dot-com era, they were lucky to get four or five candidates to look at, and in some cases...
[January 6, 2003, 12:22]
Sun rebranding pushes the value of technology
News During the dot-com boom, all the talk was about networks, and networks are important again now, but in the context of collaboration. The hot topics these days are Web services, VoIP and the like, which is all about taking stuff built in the dot-com...
[June 2, 2005, 17:15]
Online advertising starts to stabilise
News spokeswoman confirmed that the company doesn't consider Barnes&Noble.com a dot-com advertiser. Excite@Home and Lycos -- have been using a lax definition of what a dot-com is. Listening to conference calls, one would believe that reliance on dot-com...
[June 7, 2001, 14:41]
LookSmart draws on desktop power
News A handful of companies are vying for control in the niche, one of the few areas of the Net economy to have generated strong revenue and profit growth since the bursting of the dot-com bubble. Though it has a history as an editorial guide for the...
[March 21, 2003, 12:18]
Solving Yahoo's identity crisis
News In 2001, however, the dot-com bust hit the company hard, pushing its stock from a high of $475 (£239) in January 2000 to a low of $4 in September 2001. By many accounts, the Semel era transformed the company from a freewheeling and innovative dot...
[January 28, 2008, 14:36]
Ex-Sun exec aims to redesign the network
News Nexsi got its venture money two years ago, and spent $70m developing its product, before the dot-com bubble burst and funds started clamping down. Many networking products were designed during the dot-com boom for service providers, and are being...
[March 7, 2002, 18:07]
The Day Ahead: Corel employees take fall for CEO's blunders
News Martha's dot-com strategy And then came the dot-com shakeout. We are consistently talking and studying companies less fortunate than we are," she said, referring to the cash-crunched dot-com crowd. Deals with K-Mart's Bluelight.com e-commerce...
[June 12, 2000, 14:22]
Cliff Stanford: The maverick Internet pioneer
News That sale was one of the first of the Internet boom of the late 1990s, and made Stanford an early dot-com millionaire. Their dispute centred on the fact that Stanford, true to form, wanted to expand the colocation and Internet hosting company's...
[September 16, 2005, 13:20]
The Day Ahead: Component shortages a nagging pain for techs
News NBCi issued a profit warning and blamed a soft dot-com advertising market for some of its problems. or America Online, you should be sweating at the thought of the dot-com ad spending slowdown. Aside from component shortages, tech investors will...
[June 13, 2000, 11:36]
Computer science turns off students
News But not everyone is sure that the US needs more Ph.D.s, and some observers argue there are many technology professionals unable to find work in the wake of the dot-com demise and the rise of offshoring.
[August 12, 2004, 9:45]
Patent suit could hurt eBay
News During the dot-com boom, numerous companies sought patent protection for their e-commerce services and poured millions into proprietary software. EBay's founding came not only at the beginning of the dot-com boom, but also during a time of great...
[September 5, 2002, 13:28]
The Day Ahead: The folly of afterhours trading
News And let's not forget Intuit, a personal finance software/portal company that has seen damn near all of its dot-com competition die in the last year. As for dot-com advertisers, Intuit doesn't have many.
[November 22, 2000, 12:05]
Sun zooms in on growth with 'Project Redshift'
News But Sun did lose track of important business priorities in the dot-com bubble, Schwartz said: "When you're growing 60 percent, the fish are jumping in the boat. Some might recall a parallel to another expansionist era, the dot-com bubble.
[March 27, 2007, 9:41]
Sun enters Google orbit
News Sun wants once again to be the "dot" in "dot-com," McNealy said, and because customers tend to follow influential leaders, the Google deal will be significant. SalesForce.com, Google wants to be part of the daily lives of everyday computer users.
[October 5, 2005, 9:10]
Marimba woos Novadigm customers with free software
News On the change from the company's glamorous image during the dot-com frenzy, Behnia says: "Cutting costs is the sexiest thing you can talk about now. He decries media coverage of Marimba which focuses on its dot-com past, and on glamorous founder...
[February 12, 2002, 17:03]
