During the dot-com bust, it underwent an extreme restructuring to avoid an implosion.
Then, it dot-commed itself, and Time Engineering's shares skyrocketed.
Early in my career as an author, speaker and dot-com entrepreneur, it became super clear to me that social media was the most powerful way to carry my message to the masses.
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As an entrepreneur in the Internet sector I still remember the dot-com bubble like it was yesterday, when share prices fell over their own cliff and many businesses, big and small, fell apart.
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Furthermore, Evernote has completely redesigned the app in version two-dot-oh, making it easier for iOS users to clip and save recipes thanks to the new "My Cookbook" feature, as well as help keep track of recently visited restaurants without ever having to step out of the session.
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Now, to be fair, it was put together by a group with dot-org in its name, and it did a pretty impressive job of getting high-profile press for an arcane piece of oil-industry infrastructure.
The sole exception is the tech-heavy Nasdaq, which remains far below the peaks it scaled in the dot-com bubble.
Kozmo is a cool idea, and may have even looked like a good company back when everyone was riding the dot-com high, but it just doesn't hold up in the real world.
Indeed, she took considerable heat for her unwavering faith in some of her less successful picks even in the darkest days of the dot-com bust--it took a 97% slide in Priceline shares before she backed off a buy recommendation on the stock, for instance.
It also means that some of the many sick dot-coms still have a chance of survival--though it wouldn't hurt to have a warehouse full of Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people) PlayStation 2s.
"If it can get onto an over-the-road truck that's DOT legal, it can come into the building, " Mr. Wise said.
Well, it looks like, from the tracker, that -- I see a little dot flashing, and it looks like Santa is just flying over Estonia.
Mr. Smith and his eight partners started their business in 2000 for the sole purpose of having it become a dot-shop registry holder that could sell dot-shop Web addresses, such as jeans.shop and coats.shop.
There's also a super-sharp 922k-dot 3-inch LCD (no touchscreen here, not that we miss it) and a built-in optical viewfinder.
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That was during the dot-bust rollup, and I said it was impossible to do another Oracle.
AOL, if it proves that a dot-com can buy a brick-and-mortar company and not suffer a share wipeout, might be the catalyst.
"It was the most dot-com-bubble name I could think of, and I didn't want people to know what we were going to do, " he says.
First, the dot-com bubble burst, taking with it the inflated capital-spending plans of everybody who had been hoping to make a buck off of it.
Losing talent and watching cash decline in relative terms, it's my guess that Gates and Ballmer decided enough was enough--it's time to go to war against these troublesome dot-coms.
While in the December 1998 11434 was broken as the Dow made its way up the dot-com bubble, in September 2008 it was broken as it was about to tumble down the busted housing bubble.
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The large 3.2-inch 921K dot LCD screen makes it easy to preview images or video captured, navigate the menu system or confirm critical HD focus, while automatic brightness control adapts seamlessly to changing lighting conditions.
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The 2.8-inch, 461k-dot capacitive touchscreen is fixed at a slight angle, making it possible to take overhead and lower-angle shots simply by rotating the entire camera.
It was mainly in the dot-com boom of the 1990s when homes got massive.
It sells like year 2000 dot-com paper, but shows enormous topline growth, 45 percent at least.
Y. maker of personal care products, decided against opening a Web store and approached dot.com retailers to take it on-line.
If NBC has the Net rights sewn up, which it believes it does, then the dot-coms may not have much to talk about in Lausanne.
At Yahoo a daunting 40% of ad revenue still comes from dot-coms, a wobbly market, but it also serves a blue-chip roster in the real world, including Visa, Eddie Bauer, FTD and Spiegel.
But the argument--if you build it, they will come--smells of the Internet craze when dot-com businesses sprouted on the Web and not enough people came.
It's also like the dot-com collapse, in fact, probably in longer term more like that situation.
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