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Takeovers hit 'dot-com boom' high
News This is the first time this milestone had been passed since 2000, at the peak of the dot-com boom. Enthusiasm for takeovers is rampant in the technology sector again, according to figures released by PriceWaterhouseCoopers on Monday.
[January 22, 2007, 9:52]
Telematics left in dot-com dust
News Executives in industries ranging from academics to healthcare complain that the dot-com bubble perverted business models, particularly in areas where technology overlapped with other industries. The auto industry's dot-com angst isn't unique.
[May 20, 2002, 12:32]
AOL saga opens old dot-com wounds
News Those deals came together on the eve of the dot-com implosion, even as investors had already begun to seriously question the value of deals done in stock rather than cash. Analysts and regulators have been sifting through the dot-com rubble for...
[August 13, 2002, 14:25]
Dot-com gloom has cost 500,000 jobs
News During the boom years, many attendees of such conferences were already employed. In the wake of the dot-com bust, Jurs said, the defence industry seems to represent stability. The US tech industry has lost more than half a million jobs in two years...
[April 23, 2003, 9:48]
Broadband tipped to relight dot-com dreams
News 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 accessing information via the Internet. Many of the failed dot-com ideas could soon get...
[March 3, 2004, 14:50]
Dot-com rebranding makes a Tiny comeback
News Tiny Computers has rebranded itself Tiny.com, which makes it one of the first companies to change its name to include the Web suffix since the boom years. However, five years on, the Internet is littered with the remains of dot-com failures, and...
[February 6, 2004, 16:00]
Tech jobs may be safer than in dot-com crash
News By comparison, the Web 2.0 boom during the past few years — led by companies such as Facebook — has been more like a 'boomlet'. However, take away the dot-com bubble, and history indicates that technology workers will fare better than their...
[October 22, 2008, 9:52]
2006 to be 'best year since the boom' for contractors
News IT contractors could earn more money this year than since the peak of the dot-com boom, research suggests. It will be less than the [dot-com boom] and there'll be a requirement for specialised skills - not just technical ones.
[February 6, 2006, 8:55]
ARC facing a cut-price sell-off
Blog Chip designer ARC International once enjoyed a £1 billion valuation at the height of the dot com boom, yet as I write this the company, always living in the shadow of rival ARM, is set to be swallowed by Virage Logic for £25 million.
[August 19, 2009, 17:14]
Security issue will be fixed - experts
News Throughout the dot-com boom to bust, security and privacy issues have continued to be underestimated in terms of importance to e-business. The dot-com boom saw a plethora of new companies, often steered by young and untested entrepreneurs...
[November 8, 2001, 10:04]
Linux takes diverse routes to business success
News The dot-com boom may be over, but the demand for Linux is still strong in business -- a fact not lost on the computing giants present at this week's Linux Expo UK in London. Starting as a hobby by independent programmers, it became popular for...
[October 11, 2002, 16:08]
Downturn claims 5,000 dot-coms
News According to the findings of internet data analysts Webmergers, in the three years since the dot.com investment boom peaked in early 2000, buyers have spent $200bn (£126bn) to acquire 3,892 internet properties.
[March 17, 2003, 12:45]
Mentoring a stimulant for Australia's IT staff
News If you look at the way the dot-com boom created an upsurge in the way people worked together we saw senior people taking on board grads into a very flat structure," he said. It created a fantastic working atmosphere for the people who came out of...
[February 25, 2002, 16:39]
Scott McNealy still busy at Sun
News Now there's no question that some of our technology got encumbered during the go-go years of the dot-com boom when we were just trying to add functionality as fast as we could. McNealy, who co-founded Sun with Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla and...
[October 18, 2007, 16:40]
'Tis the season to be spending... online
News Most companies from the dot-com boom, who bought into the "new paradigm" that you didn't have to be profitable if you sold online, have disappeared to the great hard drive in the sky, and the remainder are seeing a steady increase in traffic and...
[December 6, 2002, 15:25]
UK's hottest tech prospect revealed
News Delivering the pre-dinner speech Mike Lynch, founder and chief executive of knowledge management firm Autonomy, said many of the things predicted during the dot-com boom will come to pass, but perhaps just not as soon as everyone thought.
[March 4, 2003, 9:07]
The Year Ahead: Will we see Linux on the desktop?
News Everybody has been saying that Linux is over because the dot-com boom is over. For the past few years, Linux has been riding a wave of hype that originated in the middle of the dot-com boom, and had to do with the surprisingly quick penetration of...
[December 30, 2001, 6:31]
Sun may be emerging from cloud
News In the wake of the dot-com boom, Sun has weathered 12 straight quarters of declining revenue on a year-over-year basis. Sun didn't move in the direction of greatly expanding its use of subscription pricing models when the company was in robust...
[June 9, 2004, 14:35]
Dressing for IT success
News By the end of the nineties the dot-com boom legitimised old jeans, sneakers, Birkenstocks or sandals, long unkempt hair, dishevelled beards, all manner of piercings, tie dyed t-shirts (it hides the stains), shorts, and the odd pair of hiking boots...
[February 6, 2003, 14:24]
Yahoo founder offers advice to Google
News The other company was a poster child of the dot-com boom that watched its fortunes, and its stock, take a roller-coaster ride. Yahoo launched in 1995 and went public in 1996, months after Netscape Communications' IPO shepherded in the dot-com boom.
[October 8, 2004, 9:30]
