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Internet World exhibits signs of dot-com deflation
News The Internet World show in London this week confirmed signs that dot-coms are having to rethink their strategies to survive as the hype deflates. Exhibitor numbers were up 20 percent on last year to 450, according to the organisers, but non-paying...
[June 8, 2001, 15:09]
Archbishop Carey bemoans 'dot.com society'
News The Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey criticised the values of Britain's "dot.coms" as over concerned with power, success, fame and money in his Easter Day sermon Sunday. He warned that these aspects of our "dot.com society" are, "transitory...
[April 25, 2000, 11:49]
Online price deflation threatens e-tailers
News The report's findings suggest that traditional businesses with online arms are placing increasing pressure on dot-coms to compete with their tactical pricing policies. The Goldfish ePI, released Wednesday, found that fierce online price deflation...
[October 12, 2000, 8:15]
Trading Standards orders dot-com shake-up
News Although many dot-coms will be feeling the pinch with faltering market enthusiasm for technology stocks in general, the Institute of Trading Standards says that unless customer service improves, the situation will only get worse.
[October 23, 2000, 9:18]
Toilet paper pokes fun at dot-com bottom
News Two entrepreneurs have created a line of novelty toilet paper printed to look like ticker tape spewing off the stock prices of struggling dot-coms. But as the hearty laughs are heard from Boston to Seattle, some dot-com defenders have emerged...
[August 20, 2001, 13:31]
Gambling sites beat the dot-com downturn
News While many dot-coms are forced to cut back in order to survive market coldness towards technology and Internet stocks, figures from Jupiter show that in recent months gambling Web sites have moved up in the popularity stakes.
[January 18, 2001, 13:43]
2000 Roundup: The dot-com bubble pops
News By autumn dot-coms were closing at a rate of about one a day. 2000 will be remembered as the year the dot-com bubble finally burst. The story built up throughout the year: in March there was Lastminute.com's sprightly flotation, which quickly sank.
[January 1, 2001, 6:16]
Linux fells another NT dot com
News Deckchair.com is one of the biggest of the new dot coms to commit to Linux and IBM middleware, says Nick Burrell, DB2 brand manager for IBM. British rock star and Internet entrepreneur Bob Geldof became an unlikely advocate of open source computing...
[June 1, 2000, 17:40]
Phone numbers replace dot-com addresses
News It's not about replacing dot-coms but working within the limitations they have". Forget digging around for unusual dot-com addresses that are either difficult to remember or all-too-often inaccurately entered.
[November 30, 2000, 15:24]
Letsbuyit.com sets debut amid dot-com blues
News Jaco admits the company has, like many dot-coms, spent heavily on advertising to build an early lead in the market, but insists the company has backed up the expenditures with strong growth. The latest high profile dot-com to fall victim of wary...
[July 4, 2000, 10:47]
3G: The next dot-com stock-rush?
News In Europe the mobile operators aren't willing to share revenue -- they are building their own portals which will make it hard for dot-coms to succeed. Opie on the other hand believes that venture capitalists will be less comfortable in investing in...
[August 23, 2000, 14:58]
Telematics left in dot-com dust
News Some said dot-coms hoodwinked stockholders and investment bankers and convinced a broad segment of Corporate America to suspend normal rules about profit and growth in favor of wacky metrics that didn't emphasise sound business theory.
[May 20, 2002, 12:32]
AOL saga opens old dot-com wounds
News If barter was widespread, it was particularly popular among dot-coms, which distinguished themselves as ready partners on both sides of such deals. Analysts and regulators have been sifting through the dot-com rubble for more than two years in...
[August 13, 2002, 14:25]
The Day Ahead: Is the price right for Priceline.com?
News Unlike many dot-coms, Priceline.com has been delivering on its hype every quarter. reported a blowout quarter, shares Priceline, eBay and other dot-com blue chips have been surging. Priceline, whose service allows consumers to name their own prices...
[July 25, 2000, 11:55]
Getting back to basics
News Unlike some of the flakier home-grown tech firms and dot-coms, Autonomy has a business proposition that seems to fulfil a genuine need -- the ability to search and manage the mountains of unstructured data businesses are increasingly inundated with.
[October 8, 2003, 16:55]
Net laughs at itself on April Fool's
News FuckedCompany.com, an irreverent Web site that documents the demise of dot-coms, has been bought by Internet incubator Idealab. GigaLaw.com's Sidd Finch, who wrote the spoof on Napster's financial and legal woes, joked that funds for Microsoft's...
[April 2, 2002, 14:58]
Mentoring a stimulant for Australia's IT staff
News Although Knight admits that it could also be argued that the organisational structure of many dot-coms was fairly chaotic, he believes there are lessons to be learnt from the upstream and downstream mentoring they fostered.
[February 25, 2002, 16:39]
UPDATE: First-e takes the slow road
News By building consumer confidence in online banking, the big banks are really benefiting dot-coms such as First-e, Egg and Smile, Thackray said. He points out the massive dot-com and banking advertising spending going on at the moment: "To cut...
[October 26, 2000, 11:48]
Empire-building Vitaminic swallows Peoplesound
News He had hoped to float Peoplesound on the stock market, but this plan -- like those of many dot-coms -- was foiled by the Internet crash of spring 2000. Digital music dot-com Vitaminic's goal of building a global site moved a step forward today with...
[June 8, 2001, 17:10]
The Day Ahead: Big is beautiful for AOL, but ad picture fuzzy
News Despite the consolidation of the dot-coms, advertising revenue is continuing to accelerate," he said. Go2Net also noted that "less than five percent" of sales comes from "questionable dot-coms. America Online checked in with its latest earnings and...
[July 21, 2000, 13:58]
