The dotcom boom transferred the wealth of pension funds to 20-somethings in Silicon Valley.
So why is Dotcom behind bars, while the executives at Google remain free?
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Meanwhile, Dotcom awaits trial, though he says the company he founded was given no similar chance.
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The New Zealand prime minister has issued an apology to Megaupload boss Kim Dotcom.
Meanwhile, the media continued to focus on the misadventures of Kim Dotcom, publishing hundreds of stories.
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Since the dotcom boom, medical device startups are the only ones proven to flourish inside incubators.
The appeals court also said Mr Dotcom could access some GCSB evidence related to his case.
They're now racing to get their dotcom subsidiaries listed before things get really nasty on Nasdaq.
To be clear, the point is not that Dotcom is necessarily an innocent victim.
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The investment firm has also offloaded its stake in Pos Malaysia Berhad and Time dotCom Berhad.
Kim Dotcom, like every smart founder of a startup in a crisis, is pivoting.
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Then there are all the people that registered domains featuring the phrase "dotcom" such as barrytaylordotcom.com.
Mr Dotcom has also won support from prominent technologists such as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
They accused Mr Dotcom and other managers at Megaupload had profited from the piracy.
There is, at least, more solidity to emerging markets than there was to dotcom stocks.
Then came the dotcom bust, which forced many chief executives to fall on their swords.
Better known as Kim Dotcom, he was boss of Megaupload before it was closed by police.
The Andersen ruling may have repercussions for another high-profile case arising from the dotcom bust.
European venture-capital firms lost money during 2000-10 after the bursting of the dotcom bubble.
Mr. Dotcom will remain in custody until a written decision on bail is made.
Then the dotcom bubble burst and Doubleclick sold its ad network business to Max Worldwide.
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As it is possible they will do in the Kim Dotcom and Megaupload cases.
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Mr Dotcom has also won support from prominent computer pioneers such as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.
So, why are the authorities trying to charge Dotcom et al under the criminal code?
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But leave those fun and games aside, Dotcom is attempting at least to relaunch as Mega.
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Dotcom has so far managed to dance away from the American authorities over MegaUpload.
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If media companies hate digitization generally, they particularly loathe Kim Dotcom and his entrepreneurial file-transfer platforms.
Things did not work out that way, though, and the result was the dotcom crash.
With its huge distribution centres, Amazon.com is as much a logistics firm as a dotcom.
When the bet went wrong with the bursting of the dotcom bubble, funds went into deficit.
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