In some ways Google feels like the giddy dot-coms of the stock-market bubble, circa 1999.
With the ease of online trading, retail investors had an insatiable appetite for dot-coms.
Many of the dot-coms that went public had yearly revenues 100 times less than that.
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But it's time to discard the stereotype of a 17-year-old trading dot-coms via a home PC.
Incumbents now breathing easy over the collapsed threat of dot-coms may get blindsided by the next wave.
The latter two dot.coms are already profitable because they have staked out territory with Microsoft-type gross margins.
They tend to capitalize on investing fads (recently, dot.coms), and what's hot today might not be hot tomorrow.
By that time, the dot-coms had gone bust, and no one even wanted to think about going public.
The irony, of course, is that mainline blue chips, initially, are hit harder and faster than high-flying dot.coms.
The irony, of course, is that mainline blue chips, initially, are hit harder and faster than high-flying dot-coms.
As dot-coms collapsed, Google took over cheap office space, barely used Aeron chairs, dozens of servers and platoons of out-of-work programmers.
Securing private investments in their stock used to be the desperate measure of cash-strapped dot-coms teetering on the abyss.
Two years ago the company claimed more than 225 customers, including failed dot-coms.
The driving range of Coms cars also top out at around 50 kilometers.
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Increasingly, even the strongest dot.coms need such bricks-and-mortar alliances to grow and prosper.
Moreover, most venture capitalists are delighted with the public market valuations for dot.coms, even at their current reduced levels.
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Stand-up comics are leading the way, a change from the past dominance of television by sit-coms and sketch shows.
But mobile phone firms have one crucial advantage over dot.coms, he says.
But like GE's Welch, Mittal thinks he can be just as efficient as the dot-coms at running his own exchange.
Even some ad executives say the dot-coms need to step back and reassess--ditch silly, scattershot campaigns and move more strategically.
The problem is due in part to the demise of the many dot-coms that bought Sun servers in recent years.
At the time Akamai's main customers were free-spending dot-coms that wanted Akamai to make their Web pages load more quickly.
Dozens of dot-coms are now adopting the marketing techniques of the record industry, infusing college campuses with unprecedented levels of marketing.
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Silicon Valley continues to lay off workers by the small city's worth, while up in San Francisco the dot-coms have evaporated.
After the dot-com bust, Pennington was thrilled with the opportunities to buy computing infrastructure at pennies on the dollar from busted dot-coms.
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These hastily assembled, short-term loans are intended to help faltering dot-coms get through tough times, with the hope their cards will improve.
Further, against today's background of collapsing dot.coms and cratering valuations for Internet ventures, Mr Centerman's change of course might jangle investors' nerves.
Zamani couldn't stay away, even as so many dot-coms turned to dust.
"All these dot-coms went out and bought lots of hardware, " Myers notes.
It holds Apple and Sun, but also some dot-coms and smaller techs, all having lots of cash and low price-to-earnings and price-to-book ratios.
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