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Ask Jeeves gets new chairman

...cofounder Garrett Gruener as chairman. The site has suffered its share of dot-com gloom, with the loss of its chief executive and 25 percent... Read more

12 January, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

Dot-com gloom has cost 500,000 jobs

Two years of dot-com gloom have resulted in more than 500,000 job losses in... Read more

23 April, 2003 by Lisa M Bowman

Wannabe ASP bucks dot-com gloom trends

...bucking current market trends and floating during a much publicised period of 'dot-com gloom'. The internet based software vendor can also boast a degree... Read more

18 December, 2000 by Ron Coates

Vignette edges away from dot-com gloom

Ecommerce software company Vignette surprised a gloomy dot-com sector by announcing its losses will be smaller than previously expected. Read more

10 April, 2001 by Ben King

Expedia takes a break from dot-com gloom

Online travel site Expedia beat analyst expectations yesterday with record results for its second quarter. Read more

30 January, 2001 by Chris Holbrook

Dot-com gloom fails to deter UK's net obsession

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26 June, 2000 by Sonya Rabbitte

European banking boom online

Internet banking lightens dot-com gloom Read more

15 January, 2001 by Will Knight

News Burst: European banking boom online

Online banking brings light to dot-com gloom Read more

12 January, 2001 by Will Knight

Man auctions himself on the web

From dot-com gloom to dot-com groom? QXL is rapidly turning into an... Read more

9 January, 2002 by Ben King

Online retail sales on the up

Good news shines through the dot-com gloom Online retail sales in September rose six per cent on... Read more

15 October, 2001 by Graham Hayday

Haburi.com bucks investment trend

Dot-com gloom? Pah! E-tailer Haburi.com has received additional funding of... Read more

13 July, 2001 by Pia Heikkila

Dot-com shock! Internet company creates jobs

iForce has bucked the trend of dot-com gloom with the opening of a distribution centre in Bromford in... Read more

28 March, 2001 by Ben King

Cable & Wireless slashes 4,000 jobs

Cable & Wireless is the latest company to deepen the dot-com gloom, saying it will cut 4,000 jobs over the next... Read more

14 March, 2001 by Sonya Rabbitte

Yahoo! profits from ad upturn

...for further funding... Yahoo! is to do its bit to lift the dot-com gloom today when it announces its first profit in seven quarters... Read more

10 July, 2002 by Will Sturgeon

Why content charges aren't for the faint-hearted

...the web - and it is the same now as it was pre-dot-com gloom - is that surfers can find virtually anything they want, and... Read more

16 July, 2001 by silicon.com staff

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