Social should not exist in the marketing or PR bubble of a company.
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Even figuring in the damage caused by the bursting of the housing bubble, the company's earnings still came in short of Wall Street's expected 43 cents per share.
When the South Sea Company exploded its bubble in much the same way as the recent subprime bubble, the London property rental market was overvalued by 40%.
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 company churns out enough Bubble Wrap every year to wrap the equator ten times.
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.
Third, reminiscent of the dot-com bubble where strange nonsense words became company names, there are all sorts of weird names popping up in education companies these days for products that are far less differentiated than their founders like to believe.
The company suffered when the technology bubble burst, dropping out of the FTSE 100 and having to issue a profit warning in 2001.
The company reports that the new bubble system, officially termed the Mitsubishi Air Lubrication System (MALS), will reduce ship carbon emissions by up to 25%.
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But if the jury disagrees, prosecutors will have made it blindingly clear what led to the company's spectacular post-bubble bankruptcy in 2001.
When Hickey took over as chief executive in 2000, after 20 years at the company, he made the flat-bubble breakthrough his personal mission.
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.
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.
"I love this stuff, " he says, fingering a foot-long sheet of Bubble Wrap, the universally known and beloved product made by his company.
The details are contained in the accounts of GSB Millmount Homes plc, a company set up by Goodbody stockbrokers during the Irish property bubble.
The brand is so strong that the company has pondered dropping its own name in favor of Bubble Wrap, even though it provides less than 10% of total revenue.
Bubble-era personal finance Guru of Rich Dad Poor Dad fame puts company into bankruptcy.
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We had a technology company come to us some time ago, before the tech bubble burst, with a difficult problem.
At the peak of the dot-com bubble in 1999, Wagner and partner, Mark Cuban, sold their fledging company, Broadcast.com, to Yahoo!
The company went public in 1999 and fought through the dot-com bubble.
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 bubble has triggered rampant speculation in the so-called relet market, where a shipping company recharters ships.
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.
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.
The Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based company, co-founded by Smith in 1998, was a dot-com bubble darling.
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The company recorded its best monthly results since May 2007, at the peak of the housing bubble, and noted continued demand for fuel efficient vehicle and acceleration in truck sales, which grew 6%.
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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.
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