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Pets.com gets put down
News Pets.com finally surrendered to the inevitable Tuesday when it announced that it was shutting down its operations and laying off 255 of its 320 employees. Pets.com shares were up 6 cents to 72 cents in early afternoon trading.
[November 8, 2000, 9:49]
The Day Ahead: Can Pets.com's sock puppet save its stock?
News Pets.com should send Miller and its sock puppet to Wall Street. If you're Pets.com, you make use of your best asset -- the sock puppet mascot. Yes, the famous Pets.com sock puppet, who has appeared in ads during the Super Bowl and the Macy's...
[June 6, 2000, 11:23]
It's dog eat dog for online pet sellers
News The dot-com consolidation continues with Tuesdays announcement that Pets.com will take over the business of Petstore.com. The deal gives Pets.com Petstores domain, trademarks, content customer list and live fish business, as well as its...
[June 13, 2000, 15:25]
The Day Ahead: Silver lining amid dot-com demise
News With a little history as your guide, you can draw some optimism from the liquidations of Pets.com, Mothernature.com, Mortgage.com and a slew of others, including some dot-coms in Amazon.com's portfolio.
[November 10, 2000, 12:09]
Company founders buy back labours of love
News Silverman, who worked as a consultant to Pets.com and helped oversee Flying Fish's operations, said he faced a dilemma. His former company was up for sale as part of Pets.com's liquidation. Flying Fish changed hands again when Pets.com acquired...
[February 19, 2001, 10:11]
GO.com recasts portal strategy
News Separately, GO.com announced a partnership with Pets.com. The deal calls for Pets.com to buy advertising on GO.com Web sites. In exchange, Pets.com gets promotional support on ABC Inc.media properties such as the ABC network.
[January 28, 2000, 9:30]
The Day Ahead: Simplify Wall Street's rating system
News With that statement setting the stage, Blodget went on to downgrade eToys to a D-3-2-9 from a D-2-1-9, Barnesandnoble.com to a D-3-1-9 from a D-2-1-9 and Pets.com to D-2-2-9 from a D-1-1-9. Roughly translated, Blodget gave eToys a "weak hold", Pets...
[August 14, 2000, 13:33]
The Day Ahead: WebMethods serves up hot B2B IPO with XML twist
News On Friday, there were 10 IPOs on the calendar, including Pets.com, which was a late addition to the docket. Pets.com was scheduled to go next week, but priced its offering at $11 while the market was hot.
[February 11, 2000, 12:42]
Tech companies: Let's not make a deal
News Everyone has a lot of money right now that has been thrown at entrepreneurs, and we are all seeing what we can do with it," says Julie Wainwright, chief executive officer of Pets.com, a start-up aimed at the pet products market.
[September 16, 1999, 16:39]
Dot-com stars shine brightest before they die
News Online fashion mall Boo.com won top billing as "brightest flameout" of 2000, followed closely by defunct niche e-tailers Pets.com and Toysmart.com. Pets.com received 2,280. Boo.com's spring closure predated the vast majority of dot-com failures...
[February 28, 2001, 11:37]
Adopt-a-Pet
Downloads Adopt-a-Pet allows the user to browse pets from Petfinder by entering his/her zip code and pet preferences. Adopt-a-Pet displays pets that match preferences, and automatically updates itself when a matching pet is added to the Petfinder site.
[June 1, 2007, 7:23]
Roami
Downloads Or, punch a hole in your firewall and drive your pets crazy while youre at work. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com. Remote control iTunes via your iPhone or iPod Touch. Now you can control iTunes from anywhere in your house.
[October 17, 2007, 14:45]
PetVet!
Downloads Pet Foods - Keep track of your pets favorite foods and where to buy them at the best price. Visit PDACellar.com sales@PDACellar.com A simple yet complete Pet Maintenance Program Includes : Pet Listing - listing of your pet and detailed info shots etc.
[November 4, 2001, 7:00]
Microsoft co-founder hits investment slump
News Granted, Vulcan Ventures' ability to fund sustainable businesses isn't necessarily any worse than those of many Silicon Valley venture firms, whose dot-com disasters range from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers-backed Excite@Home to Hummer Winblad...
[May 13, 2002, 15:48]
The Day Ahead: 1Q IPO hits and misses
News Pets.com had a nifty mascot and a big backer in Amazon.com, but investors weren't taking this puppy home as shares have fallen 50 percent from an offering price of $11. Good marketing doesn't ensure a good IPO (Pets.com), and selling things for...
[April 3, 2000, 11:52]
Tech slump has knock-on effect in property market
News Companies he has worked with such as Pets.com, Zatso and Riffage.com each lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in security deposits, he said. During the height of the dot-com boom, some real estate companies in the San Francisco Bay Area were...
[July 4, 2001, 12:54]
Ellison demands simpler IT systems
News The experts said Webvan and Pets.com were going to be worth billions," Ellison said. Yet, the company, at its height, surpassed Daimler Benz in market value during the dot-com boom, he said. The flamboyant billionaire's OracleWorld address was...
[November 15, 2002, 8:58]
Flexible working needn't stretch resources
News Remember stories of people bringing pets to work? 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...
[November 15, 2004, 15:05]
Learning from virtual plagues
News Pets infect players What was unexpected, he said, was the way the plague infected players' pets and then later transferred from those pets to others in populated areas of the WoW world. One WoW player, known as Valewalker, told ZDNet UK sister site...
[October 17, 2005, 13:00]
Linux servers 'attacked more often'
Talkback Other systems like windows on the other hand had everyone's mom and some people's pets using the OS, along with Turing award winners as well as Nobel laureates. The last we heard was the debain server breach due to kernel flaws and now stuff like...
[February 23, 2004, 5:35]
