Social should not exist in the marketing or PR bubble of a company.
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Here we have a company that reeks of Bubble 1.0: huge losses and an IPO prospectus that flaunts a contrived revenue metric that excludes marketing expenses on the unproven theory that over time marketing costs will decrease.
We had a technology company come to us some time ago, before the tech bubble burst, with a difficult problem.
Starlight Runner initially set out to develop software that would allow other companies to tell stories on the Web, but it lost its venture funding after the dot-com bubble burst, so the company retooled into a consulting firm.
The details are contained in the accounts of GSB Millmount Homes plc, a company set up by Goodbody stockbrokers during the Irish property bubble.
If it proves to be a substantial problem for the company, it could burst Google's bubble--as well as the rest of the Internet ad business.
The bubble has triggered rampant speculation in the so-called relet market, where a shipping company recharters ships.
Even if the SEC and Goldman agree to a deal, the company faces numerous civil lawsuits related to its activities during the mortgage bubble.
The Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based company, co-founded by Smith in 1998, was a dot-com bubble darling.
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"I love this stuff, " he says, fingering a foot-long sheet of Bubble Wrap, the universally known and beloved product made by his company.
Knoll explains that at the height of the tech bubble investors bid up the shares on the news that Pearl had become involved with a company that patented what became a standard for Web browsers.
News of the company's possible listing comes at a time when rising prices have sparked fears that an asset bubble could be forming in the city's property market.
The company suffered when the technology bubble burst, dropping out of the FTSE 100 and having to issue a profit warning in 2001.
This has happened in the past, a good example being the South Sea Company in England, which in 1720 caused the first major financial crisis and bubble.
During the Internet bubble Cisco was briefly the world's most valuable company, but now it and Microsoft together have a market cap about equal to that of Apple.
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