The Day Ahead: Drkoop.com goes critical
News Drkoop.com made a big splash last July when it inked a four-year, $89m (£56.42m) alliance with America Online. Despite an auditor's report questioning its viability, Drkoop.com's two primary underwriters -- Bear Stearns and Chase H&Q -- were...
[April 26, 2000, 12:07]
The Day Ahead: Value America board members throw cash into the pit
News Egghead.com, CDNow, Peapod.com and Drkoop.com have received -- or are expected to receive -- additional funding. Now instead of competing with Amazon.com as a one-stop e-tailer, Value America only competes with Buy.com, Egghead, Cyberian Outpost...
[May 11, 2000, 12:03]
The Day Ahead: 'Band-Aid financing' won't work for some dot-coms
News Drkoop.com is looking for financing or a buyer. Like CDNow, Drkoop.com has the eyeballs and content to attract a buyer, but there's baggage. Bottom line: CDNow has to find a buyer because it can't compete with Amazon.com's scale.
[May 17, 2000, 11:50]
The Day Ahead: Dot com dominoes
News America Online took Drkoop.com stock in lieu of cash. 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...
[September 7, 2000, 11:21]
The Day Ahead: Dot-coms latest survival tactic is relocation
News Drkoop.com announced more layoffs and cut its already decimated staff by a third. Drkoop is another example of this. Michael Beindorff, chief executive of PlanetRX.com, noted that it just makes more sense that the whole company should be under one...
[August 31, 2000, 11:46]
AOL invests $100m in Amazon
News AOL has had to restructure agreements with other dot-coms, such as Drkoop.com and VitaminShoppe.com. AOL Time Warner invested $100m (about £70m) in Amazon.com as part of a multiyear marketing agreement Monday, as the online e-tailer announced it...
[July 24, 2001, 9:14]
The Day Ahead: Sun, Gateway: Don't call us hardware companies
News Analysts, who have bought into the Sun marketing pitch, asked officials what happens if the Drkoop.coms go under. Sun Microsystems sells servers and workstations, but wants to be known as the dot in dot-com.
[April 14, 2000, 12:25]
Enron items garner high bids on eBay
News Last year, cancelled stock certificates for troubled dot-com companies such as Webvan and Drkoop.com sold for more than $100 each. Price-guide analyst Rich Klein at Beckett.com calls the strong bidding on the Enron items the "train-wreck effect.
[January 17, 2002, 14:44]
Toilet paper pokes fun at dot-com bottom
News Stock certificates from struggling or failed Web companies are selling for far more than their paper value -- more than $100 for certificates from the now-defunct Webvan and the struggling Drkoop.com, whose stock trades around 11 cents.
[August 20, 2001, 13:31]
AOL saga opens old dot-com wounds
News That same year, AOL renegotiated an $89m multiyear ad contract with now-defunct online health site DrKoop.com, accepting stock instead of cash. Companies that have recently come under scrutiny over their use of barter deals include Homestore.com...
[August 13, 2002, 14:25]
The Day Ahead: Dot-coms search for happy medium
News Some dot-coms (Pets.com, Drkoop.com to name a few) are struggling to hit $1 a share. Commentary: Where is that happy medium for dot-com companies? Second-tier dot-coms such as iVillage and TheStreet.com hope to hit the $4 mark.
[October 9, 2000, 12:18]
The Day Ahead: Yahoo! dominates
News Add Salon.com and Beyond.com to the critical list that includes Peapod.com, Drkoop.com and CDNow. As the portal easily topped every metric that Wall Street set for the company, other dot-coms such as Salon.com and Beyond.com are becoming...
[April 6, 2000, 12:21]
