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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]
Tech jobs may be safer than in dot-com crash
News However, take away the dot-com bubble, and history indicates that technology workers will fare better than their counterparts in other industries. Google has gone from start-up to one of the most powerful companies in technology since the dot-com...
[October 22, 2008, 9:52]
News Burst: Investors not put off by dot-com crash
News Despite last year's collapse in tech stocks, twice as many companies went public in 2000 compared to 1999, and those companies raised twice as much money as the year before. Research from accountancy firm KPMG released Monday, shows that 138...
[January 2, 2001, 9:26]
From boom to bust and back again
News Today, five years after the crash, has the word dot-com become fashionable once again? Its co-founder, Richard Fan, agrees that learning from the dot-com crash is crucial in enabling new dot-coms to succeed where their predecessors had failed.
[November 29, 2005, 14:25]
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]
Boo.com is resurrected
News One of the most high-profile failures of the dot-com crash has been relaunched. Boo.com, which was originally an online fashion retailer when it fell into liquidation in 2000, has been relaunched as a social networking and travel booking site...
[May 2, 2007, 16:09]
Skype and Google fund 'illegal' Wi-Fi start-up
Talkback Many people say BT helped cause the dot.com crash by deliberatly restrictng broadband availability. Why does big business seem to be innovation's worst enemy? They claim to champion it, but I haven't seen Microsoft come up with any revolutionary...
[February 6, 2006, 10:19]
Building boom leads to datacentre crash
News The dot-com bust is prompting a land crash, but it isn't in San Francisco housing prices -- it's in the Web hosting business, as companies have spent billions on massive datacentres around the United States.
[May 10, 2001, 11:04]
Bye-bye bulls, hello bears
News This attitude change is a good thing, if not terribly useful to investors in the wake of the dot-com crash. After watching the Nasdaq lose more than half its value in the past eight months as dot-com after dot-com went belly-up, several Internet...
[January 2, 2001, 8:54]
Flexible working needn't stretch resources
News In the wake of the dot-com crash, some technology companies clamped down on telecommuting options. 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.
[November 15, 2004, 15:05]
Boo.com may face DTI probe
News A while ago there was a flurry of commentary about the significance of the stock market crash(es) on the viability of emerging dot com business. It has now had a knock on effect on the real world, as increased suspicion about the future of the dot...
[June 20, 2000, 9:20]
Yahoo! and AOL: Reversal of fortunes
News meanwhile, was preparing to announce the first of several steep downward financial revisions, based on a looming crash in the dot-com advertising market. The company attributed much of this success to progress in its relationships with advertising...
[January 21, 2003, 12:29]
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]
Yahoo founder offers advice to Google
News One company went public this summer, becoming the most anticipated tech IPO since the dot-com crash. The other company was a poster child of the dot-com boom that watched its fortunes, and its stock, take a roller-coaster ride.
[October 8, 2004, 9:30]
Linux prepares for battle
News Linux has made rapid progress in the server market, where it continues to grow despite the dot-com crash. Linux and the open source software movement have faced a number of intimidating obstacles over the past months, including the disappearance of...
[July 4, 2001, 13:02]
UK Net firms running out of cash - report
News A few weeks ago there was a flurry of commentary about the significance of the stock market crash(es) on the viability of emerging dot com business. The vulnerability of many Internet companies is likely to act as a catalyst for consolidation in...
[May 17, 2000, 16:03]
The Day Ahead: Dump those tech shares, make a trader's day
News But you can even find some dot-com bargains. Judging by the media coverage this weekend, the mainstream press is praying for a stock market crash -- it makes for a better story. Dot-coms that don't have the business model or the cash to last a year...
[April 17, 2000, 12:30]
Web 2.0 staff swap salaries for shares
News Nathan Callaghan of ReThink said start-ups have always offered equity to secure top talent but this tactic lost currency following the dot-com crash. More than 75 percent of candidates joining dot-com start-ups through IT staffing company ReThink...
[November 14, 2007, 10:26]
netimperative.com bites the dust
News A few weeks ago there was a flurry of commentary about the significance of the stock market crash(es) on the viability of emerging dot com business. It has now had a knock on effect on the real world, as increased suspicion about the future of the...
[May 22, 2000, 11:37]
A Year Ago: Netimperative.com bites the dust
News A few weeks ago there was a flurry of commentary about the significance of the stock market crash(es) on the viability of emerging dot-com business. It has now had a knock on effect on the real world, as increased suspicion about the future of the...
[May 22, 2001, 6:28]
