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Roundup: Dot-com downturn - where do companies go from here?
News The news that Freeserve will almost certainly fall out of the FTSE 100 when the index is revised next week has triggered another round of speculation on just what went wrong -- with some arguing that dot-com shares were simply overvalued to begin...
[August 31, 2000, 13:05]
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]
Dot-com execs have 'unsavoury backgrounds'
News The hyperfast nature of the dot-com industry is blamed for the situation, with Kroll blaming hurried appointments of key executives and failing to adopt traditional methods of executive governance. Kroll says that the situation could leave dot-coms...
[October 24, 2000, 15:11]
News Burst: Dot-com execs have 'unsavoury backgrounds'
News Executives at dot-com Internet firms are four times as likely to have an "unsavoury background" than traditional company executives, according to research from corporate security consultants Kroll Associates.
[October 24, 2000, 8:51]
The Day Ahead: Dot-com homecomings
News If 1999 was the year of the dot-com spinoff, the next year or so may be the year of the dot-com homecoming. ITurf's $86m reverse merger deal with Delia's may have kicked off this dot-com homecoming trend.
[August 25, 2000, 11:32]
Comdex '99: "Dot com" companies rule Comdex
News In fact some of the biggest dot com companies aren't even here. Now they are dominated by Internet startups -- dot com something or others hoping to clean up in the Net gold rush. The dot com takeover of Comdex is illustrated by a promotional...
[November 16, 1999, 16:36]
Dot-com Ice Age shows signs of thaw
News Sites that targeted businesses as customers accounted for 38 percent of the dot-com casualties. Despite the gloom, the report did indicate that the worst might be over for the dot-com industry, as the rate of failures has slowed down over the past...
[December 27, 2001, 16:30]
Dot-com deaths continue
News The number of Internet companies forced to close in April rose 20 percent compared on March figures, bringing the total number of dot-com closures since January last year to 435. The number of dot-com closures has been steadily increasing since the...
[May 2, 2001, 13:06]
The Day Ahead: Dot com dominoes
News Net services firms are dishing out profit warnings this week as dot-com clients struggle to pay the bills, but these once-ballyhooed companies are just the latest victims of the dot-com domino effect.
[September 7, 2000, 11:21]
Dot-com deathwatch site puts memos online
News With corporate scandals abounding, the Web site known for chronicling the dot-com underbelly has taken to publishing internal memos of bad business practices -- for a profit. Since the fall of the dot-com economy, the popular dead-pool site has...
[July 31, 2002, 8:36]
The Day Ahead: Dot-com woes dash Amazon's revenue hopes
News To date, Amazon has announced several deals with pure play dot-com companies. And now Amazon has admitted its dot-com pals can't pay up. Officials said Amazon second quarter earnings conference call Wednesday that the company would have to...
[July 27, 2000, 11:58]
Dot-com gloom has cost 500,000 jobs
News The US tech industry has lost more than half a million jobs in two years, giving back most of the gains made during the dot-com mania, and turning events like the BrassRing affair into long shots for even the most optimistic and skilled of job...
[April 23, 2003, 9:48]
Dot-com stars shine brightest before they die
News That's the conclusion of a report from Applied Communications, which released Tuesday a list of dot-com "flameouts" -- companies that ceased operations in the brightest blaze of print media coverage. Boo.com's spring closure predated the vast...
[February 28, 2001, 11:37]
Dot-com investor wins payout over biased analyst claims
News Since the dot-com crash last year, many analysts have been accused of hyping Internet stocks that were already over-valued. A US investor has won a £275,000 payout from investment bank Merrill Lynch after claiming he had been deliberately misled by...
[July 24, 2001, 12:04]
Dot-com rebranding makes a Tiny comeback
News However, five years on, the Internet is littered with the remains of dot-com failures, and the practice is less common. Tiny Computers has rebranded itself Tiny.com, which makes it one of the first companies to change its name to include the Web...
[February 6, 2004, 16:00]
Dot-com nabs big cheese from trad company
News Kozmo.com, the troubled Internet delivery service, just managed to do what other dot-coms have recently failed to accomplish: attract an executive from an established, non-technology company. Its primary rival in New York, Urbanfetch.com, closed it...
[March 20, 2001, 14:42]
Dot-com demise reaches researcher Jupiter
News Just over a year after Jupiter Communications and Media Metrix announced a merger aimed at creating an online research powerhouse, some of its customers are succumbing to the dot-com bust while some others are favoring rival services such as Nielsen.
[July 5, 2001, 12:51]
The Year Ahead: Will Linux survive the dot-com crash?
News The implosion of the dot-com economy has raised questions about the future of the GNU/Linux operating system and the open source movement that it typifies. But while the collapse of high-profile Linux ventures such as desktop software developer...
[January 2, 2002, 6:31]
Broadband tipped to relight dot-com dreams
News Many of the failed dot-com ideas could soon get another chance, thanks to broadband. In a new report on the impact and potential of broadband, Pearson argues that the dot-com boom failed partly because few people had a rapid and reliable way of...
[March 3, 2004, 14:50]
Phone numbers replace dot-com addresses
News Forget digging around for unusual dot-com addresses that are either difficult to remember or all-too-often inaccurately entered. Australian company Nacomms claims to be the first in the world to go online with numeric addressing, where telephone...
[November 30, 2000, 15:24]
