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Computer science turns off students
News Carnegie Mellon's Lee said the recent decline in undergraduate enrolment is part of a larger trend of declining student interest in computer science over the past two decades -- a tendency temporarily interrupted by the dot-com boom of the late 90s.
[August 12, 2004, 9:45]
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]
Clickmango hopes fizzle
News The site was one of the many high-profile e-commerce startups that appeared at the height of the UK's Internet funding boom early this year, but it announced just three months after launch that it had failed to secure the funding to keep going.
[September 5, 2000, 16:47]
Dot-coms now closing at one a day
News That idea was borne out last week by findings that e-commerce spending by small to medium enterprises is set to boom dramatically over the next 12 months. Dot-com closures are accelerating, with Internet startups now closing at the rate of about...
[November 20, 2000, 10:50]
Web content: Will users ever pay?
News We've all learned that the money in the heyday of the boom was more of a curse than a blessing. He also happens to be the man behind Webvan, the billion-dollar online grocer that famously failed in 2001 and became synonymous with both the...
[August 4, 2003, 13:25]
Will Silicon Valley ever get its mojo back?
News Will Silicon Valley -- mired in a post-boom crisis of confidence -- ever regain its status as an economic powerhouse and its place at the center of the high-tech universe? The heady days of the Internet boom, all agreed, are not about to be...
[January 20, 2003, 8:10]
The Day Ahead: Intel provides excuse to buy; eUniverse moves up
News The companies making out the most from the chip boom are equipment makers such as Applied Materials. For starters, no one wants to hear about dot-coms these days, especially the consumer-oriented variety.
[May 25, 2000, 11:49]
Shareholders bring down axe on Baltimore
News It's a far cry from Baltimore's heyday as Ireland's darling of the dot-com boom, valued at £7bn -- more than the Bank of Ireland's valuation at the time. Baltimore shareholders on Friday voted overwhelmingly to sell the company's PKI business...
[November 28, 2003, 15:40]
The451.com goes up in flames
News The closure follows those earlier this year of several high-profile print publications that grew substantially in the late '90s on the back of the dot-com boom. The451.com, one of the UK's most high profile tech newswire start-ups of the last...
[October 15, 2001, 14:05]
News Burst: UK could face Net skills shortage
News A report from the giant Anderson Consulting group suggests that the Internet will create 850,000 jobs in the UK over the next three years, and that this boom will cause a skills shortage. A new report ranks the UK's Internet economy first among...
[June 9, 2000, 12:11]
Yahoo insiders take profits as shares hit high
News Officers who have sold since April include the company's chief operating officer, Daniel Rosensweig; its chief financial officer, Susan Decker; its chief technical officer, Farzad Nazem; executive vice president Gregory Coleman; secretary Jonathan...
[June 27, 2003, 9:14]
LinkedIn taking a wrong turn on the way to revenue?
Blog Web 2.0 currently has the air of the crazy days of the Dot Com Boom, when anyone with an e-commerce site and a banker as a friend found themselves a paper millionaire. Surprisingly, the near endless supply of contacts in LinkedIn seems not yet...
[June 24, 2008, 9:51]
Google looks for IPO
News Such an auction would cut underwriting costs and distance Google from investment banking scandals like those during the dot-com boom, according to the report. Since 1999, the bank has brought eight companies public using Dutch auctions to set the...
[October 24, 2003, 8:55]
UnitedLinux working on desktop distribution
News Linux is an open-source clone of Unix that gained a significant share in the server market during the dot-com boom. In the consumer market, Lindows.com is selling a distribution tailored for non-technical users familiar with Windows.
[October 15, 2002, 14:07]
Hotmail trashes saved files
News For example, service providers hosting customer files online folded suddenly at the end of the dot-com boom. Online storage providers such as Myspace.com and I-Drive.com that collapsed at the time gave scant notice, and some customers complained of...
[June 4, 2004, 9:05]
Microsoft UK head: We've grown up
News I look back on to the nineties, go back to the dot-com-dot-gone boom, the corporate aggression, the whole ethos -- and it has changed. The last few weeks have been pretty rough for Microsoft. After being knocked around by the European Commission...
[April 8, 2004, 15:10]
Online advertising set to boom in 2003
News Online advertising is still the lifeblood of so many Internet ventures, but its growth has trailed off considerably since the end of the dot-com boom, which saw the collapse of many of the medium's most active advertisers.
[December 13, 2002, 12:19]
Christmas.co.uk put up for sale
News In the heady days of the dot-com boom, some generic domain names changed hands for huge amounts of money. Match.com was sold for $8 million (£4.65m today) in 1997, and business.com changed hands for $7.5m in 1999.
[November 29, 2005, 16:25]
Latest threat to music industry: the postal service?
News During the dot-com boom days, several companies, including Swaprat and Swap.com attempted to launch bartering services but most didn't survive the Internet meltdown. La La is a savvy new music site for helping people swap CDs via the US Postal...
[August 3, 2006, 11:05]
Taking on the Office gorilla, online
News ZDNet UK caught up with him to discuss surviving the dot-com crash, surfing the Web 2.0 boom, and get cosy with Yahoo. So for a while there we had this red dot following our foreheads, but we ended up disappointing Ballmer as there just weren't...
[May 26, 2006, 14:05]
