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Dot-com Monopoly: 'Pass Go, Collect £200m'
News In keeping with the times, Hasbro officially launched the dot-com edition of Monopoly. As with the dot-com edition, the boards are the same but the streets are different. You may not have to pay a luxury tax in the dot-com edition, but your ISP...
[November 6, 2000, 11:37]
AOL Saga Opens Old Dot-com Wounds
News Analysts and regulators have been sifting through the dot-com rubble for more than two years in search of bad barter deals, a practice that for many came to epitomise the inflated promises of the dot-com era.
[August 13, 2002, 14:25]
Sun, MS Duke It Out Over Digital Home
News They both used the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as the forum on which to stage their basic plans for the "connected home", as Gates' Microsoft calls it, or the "dot-com home", as dubbed by McNealy's Sun Microsystems.
[January 10, 2000, 9:26]
Broadband Tipped To Relight Dot-com Dreams
News In 2000, when the dot-com industry hit trouble, almost all home Internet users -- and many small businesses -- only had a narrowband connection. Many of the failed dot-com ideas could soon get another chance, thanks to broadband.
[March 3, 2004, 14:50]
Gates Sees 'mini Bubble'
News A "mini bubble" has emerged among Internet companies, but it is not likely to reach the level of the previous dot-com boom, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said. Gates' comments follow recent filings for public offerings by several dot-com companies...
[March 29, 2004, 8:20]
The Day Ahead: Go.com Is Going In The Right Direction
News Newman, however, reckons Go will approach the valuation of its peers -- especially once the dot-com shakeout is complete. Go has the one thing a lot of dot-coms need -- cash. According to Media Metrix, Go.com is the sixth largest site on the Web...
[May 4, 2000, 12:58]
Portal Woes Kick In
News Although new restrictions on pooling have since made it less attractive, some of the recent biggest -- and arguably overpriced -- dot-com mergers used the technique, which does not require companies to write off depreciating assets.
[January 31, 2001, 12:27]
Flexible Working Needn't Stretch Resources
News In addition, technology companies eager to snap up talent during the dot-com rush gave employees a lot of latitude when it came to work. In the wake of the dot-com crash, some technology companies clamped down on telecommuting options.
[November 15, 2004, 15:05]
Online Advertising Starts To Stabilise
News Excite@Home and Lycos -- have been using a lax definition of what a dot-com is. spokeswoman confirmed that the company doesn't consider Barnes&Noble.com a dot-com advertiser. 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]
The Day Ahead: 'Band-Aid Financing' Won't Work For Some Dot-coms
News Those cash strapped dot-coms sure are a resilient bunch -- for now. Instead of going out of business quietly, struggling dot-coms are raising more money in hopes fighting on. In recent weeks, many struggling dot-coms have announced cash infusions.
[May 17, 2000, 11:50]
Manage Documents On The Web
White Papers Any company that doesn't end in dot.com is considered to be a dinosaur by many people. Customers can now shop from home as most retail companies now sell products on the Web. In today's business environment, "Web" is the one word that seemingly...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Primary Tablet For U3
Downloads With start dots, the student places his or her pencil on the first color-coded start dot and draws the first line. Then, they place their pencil on the second color-coded start dot and draw that line.
[December 11, 2007, 2:01]
Argentina: More Near-shore Than Offshore
News Not so home-grown dot-com survivor Lastminute.com, which recently named Argentina as its offshoring destination of choice. The UK dot-com darling has handed all of its core Unix and database administration operations to an offshore tech company...
[July 27, 2004, 16:10]
The Day Ahead: Drkoop.com Goes Critical
News On its latest conference call, AOL execs shrugged off the dot-com cash crunch and said the company wouldn't be affected. There are so many strapped dot-coms such as CDNow with expensive portal deals and no cash.
[April 26, 2000, 12:07]
Web Ad Firm To Profile Surfers
News Behavioural targeting, however, ran into several roadblocks during the dot-com heyday, including technical limitations. For example, someone repeatedly reading home-improvement material at sites like The New York Times online or About.com might see...
[April 26, 2004, 16:15]
Extent Of UK Tech Skills Crisis In Doubt
News Devine blamed the end of the dot-com boom "in IT attractiveness" for a drop in the number of graduates, and said new technologies make it much easier to integrate teams working around the world. The UK is not heading for a technology skills crisis...
[October 16, 2007, 9:26]
The Day Ahead: Sun, Gateway: Don't Call Us Hardware Companies
News Sun Microsystems sells servers and workstations, but wants to be known as the dot in dot-com. Sun gets a lot of press -- all by design -- for its criticism of Microsoft, nifty Java technologies and dot-com strategy.
[April 14, 2000, 12:25]
Online Storage Could Risk Your Files
News Rothken said he's received a lot of email from people who've lost files and messages after a dot-com company went under. Most of the agreements warn customers that the storage company isn't responsible for preserving files should it go out of...
[April 22, 2002, 14:02]
The Day Ahead: 1Q IPO Hits And Misses
News Only one dot-com company (Register.com) made the list with a gain of 217 percent from its offering price of $24. Another dot-com with a lot of flash and no return was Buy.com. Dot.coms that focused on e-tailing also littered the loser list.
[April 3, 2000, 11:52]
