JDS Uniphase recorded a $45 billion writedown, marking the largest corporate loss in history. This massive impairment charge reflects the extreme fallout from the fiber optic bubble and the broader telecommunications market crash in 2001.
The Economist examines business continuity planning via Ericsson's $2 billion loss. A minor ten-minute fire at a Philips chip factory crippled their supply chain, demonstrating how lack of alternative sourcing can destroy market leadership.
Explore Google's 2006 analysis of over a billion web pages to see how developers actually use HTML. This data covers tag frequency, attribute usage, and the most common document types found across the internet.
I’m tracking India’s massive bandwidth expansion as submarine fiber optic cables open up. With major capacity projects from the DoT, NASSCOM, and Dishnet reaching up to 2.5TB, the country's connectivity bottlenecks look set to disappear by 2001.
I explore Thomas Friedman's take on globalization, specifically how the fiber-optic overinvestment from the dot-com era turned cities like Bangalore into digital neighbors by slashing data transmission costs to nearly zero.
I'm tracking how China surpassed Japan to become the world's second-largest PC and internet market. They already lead in mobile users, making their rapid growth across all digital platforms quite remarkable.