dot-com-bubble on S Anand

Flat world

Mon, 04 Apr 2005 12:00:00 +0000

It’s a flat world after all. Thomas Freidman on Globalization, Bangalore, …

Second, the Netscape stock offering triggered the dot-com boom, which triggered the dot-com bubble, which triggered the massive overinvestment of billions of dollars in fiber-optic telecommunications cable. That overinvestment, by companies like Global Crossing, resulted in the willy-nilly creation of a global undersea-underground fiber network, which in turn drove down the cost of transmitting voices, data and images to practically zero, which in turn accidentally made Boston, Bangalore and Beijing next-door neighbors overnight.

Yes, crazy overinvestment can be good. The overinvestment in railroads turned out to be a great boon for the American economy. ‘But the railroad overinvestment was confined to your own country and so, too, were the benefits,’ Singh said. In the case of the digital railroads, ‘it was the foreigners who benefited.’ India got a free ride.

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Genmys 4 Apr 2005 3:56 pm: Some articles are star marked. Why?
S Anand 5 Apr 2005 3:03 am: They are popular or interesting articles.

i2 to delist

Tue, 08 Apr 2003 12:00:00 +0000

i2 may have to delist. And delisting may be good for them.

Greenspans defence

Mon, 09 Sep 2002 12:00:00 +0000

Greenspan’s defence. On why he couldn’t have raised interest rates earlier and prevented the bubble.

Obituary

Sat, 29 Sep 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Obituary: Industry Standard, Excite@Home, Exodus. Long live the Internet.

DotComDoom

Fri, 10 Aug 2001 12:00:00 +0000

DotComDoom.com – about the demise of dot-coms. News links.

45 billion writedown

Fri, 03 Aug 2001 12:00:00 +0000

A $45 billion writedown from JDS Uniphase. The largest ever loss in corporate history.

More dead sites

Fri, 22 Jun 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Feed is dead. Suck is dead. Thankfully, Plastic is alive. Demise of a Net Magazine.

NetMogul

Fri, 15 Jun 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Carl Steadman’s book, NetMogul, is evolving online. It’s about dot-com startups. What I liked best was the way the book has been formatted online.

Taxing the Internet

Wed, 07 Mar 2001 12:00:00 +0000

With the Internet economy booming despite the collapse of dot-coms, the OECD countries are getting ready to tax the Internet.

X-Drive layoffs

Fri, 09 Feb 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Fucked company reports that X-Drive.com is likely to lay off people. Given their accuracy, I’d recommend anyone having files on X-Drive make backups in the near future.

Dotcoms go bust but ecommerce thrives

Thu, 01 Feb 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Dot-coms go bust, but e-commerce initiatives in companies still thrive.

ex-Exec tracker

Thu, 01 Feb 2001 12:00:00 +0000

With all these people getting fired, TheStandard has come out with an ex-Exec tracker. Brilliant!

More layoffs

Wed, 31 Jan 2001 12:00:00 +0000

More layoffs: AT&T, News Corp, Gateway and Motorola. But the find of the day is TheStandard’s layoff tracker.

More recession

Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Recession.
Daimler Chrysler slashes 26,000 jobs.
Disney cuts 400.
Amazon may have cut 20%.
It isn’t nice (1
2).
But dot-coms might still do well, since software, labour and real-estate
costs will start falling?

Recession

Sun, 28 Jan 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Recession?
GM shuts 14 plants.
Boeing: 1 plant.
AMC: 548 theatres.
WorldCom lays of 10-15%.
HP: 2%.
Delphi & Visteon: 10,300.
Lucent: 10,000.
Sara Lee: 7,000.
JC Penney: 5,000.
AOL: 2,000.

More dotcom casualties

Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:00:00 +0000

More deaths. Chemdex, the B2B chemical market. Send.com, the gift store. Musicmaker, the CD-burner. Foodline, the restuarant agent.

Amazon has a union

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Didn’t know dot-coms had unions. Amazon does. A reaction to the layoffs in dot-coms?

Trend towards paid services

Wed, 03 Jan 2001 12:00:00 +0000

Now Yahoo! will charge a fee for auctions. No more free PCs. No more free ISPs. No more ad revenues. No more free auctions. The trend is clear. Pay! Unfortunately, they’ll also monitor what’s being sold – an indication that country-specific legal barriers are creeping into the Internet.

Web services shut down

Tue, 26 Dec 2000 12:00:00 +0000

Finance.com has shut down. Desktop.com too. NetZero. And the biggest of all: Pets.com (chart). This is more the trend than exception. People who had accounts on these? Tough luck! That’s one reason to stick to big players like Yahoo or Microsoft.

Post-mortem of dotcoms

Mon, 20 Nov 2000 12:00:00 +0000

Fortune has a 6-part post-mortem of dot-coms. In contrast, the FTC lists the top ten ways to make a quick-buck on the Internet – the dot cons.