The aftermath of the dot-com bust may seem like an odd place for a venture capital firm to get its start, but that was the case for Emergence Capital and in the decade-plus since the firm started it has eschewed the consumer-centric booms and blowups of the first wave of the Internet in favor of business-focused services.
While EarthLink, which announced the PeoplePC deal today, has been showing respectable growth in its broadband Internet business, the backbone of its business, dial-up Internet, has been flat.
WSJ.com now has nearly 750, 000 paying subscribers, and Ms Fine also applauds the company's purchase of MarketWatch, an internet-based provider of business information and analytical tools.
So Jackpot's chairman and cofounder, Allan Tessler, decided to reinvent the company--as an incubator of Internet business-to-business companies.
Facebook has shown it is a heavy in the classic Internet business of acquiring users and serving ads to them, but its ability to invent and play another card will determine whether it is the dominant actor of this era or just another (big) company.
Since the publication of the white paper, various Chinese ministries including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Culture, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, the Ministry of Finance, just to name a few, have all come out with their own sets of regulations regulating various aspects of Internet business and behavior.
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Among the issues the women will be discussing at the three-day summit are ways to bridge the technology gap, including use of the internet in business development, strategies to cope with the economic impact of Aids and war, especially in Africa, financing women's enterprises and understanding trade agreements as globalisation continues to have an adverse impact on developing societies.
They probably would be but for the fact that the Internet and the globalization of business make these accounts so much more accessible.
And so, all around us there is growing evidence that the high-tech industry, especially the world of Internet-based business, will soon take flight again.
Correction, the 1999-2001 crash was caused by runaway investment in Silicon Valley and the overall scramble to get a piece of the Internet business.
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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.
Deutsche Telekom has been forced to lower its target price for the flotation of its internet business T-Online, down from 50 euros to about 35 euros if not less.
The 8th annual Web 2.0 Summit kicks off in San Francisco this afternoon for three days of some high level talk about the future of the Internet business.
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"The indications are that the internet is giving rise to huge operations like Amazon.com, Sony and Time Warner because the beauty of the internet (business model) is that it cuts out the middlemen, " he said.
Winebaum's concept is to make order out of the chaos of business information on the Internet by creating a massive directory of information about companies.
"Tracking down my previous references proved problematic since many of the companies were Internet start-ups that have gone out of business, " Spenser says.
How will VCs stay relevant when the cost of launching an Internet business asymptotically approaches "free"?
Aircell's program with NetJets represents the largest order for high-speed Internet service in the history of business aviation.
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Bock says the company is prepared to see a number of people move on and has identified the people it feels it must keep, particularly in Google's core business of Internet search.
The company describes a digital shadow of the trail an individual or company leaves behind on the Internet during the course of personal work or business.
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You know, the CNN documentary got a lot of attention, in part, because it explored this whole question of why it is that African-Americans have not been as present on the business side of the Internet boom.
In the case of 77th Street, she says the widespread use of the internet has created a greater pressure on the business to stay ahead of the market.
Despite the democratization of access to information that the Internet and mobile devices have brought, the business of social networks is subject to customs, cultural habits, and privacy tolerances.
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PC's one-size-fits-all approach to computing cannot satisfy the requirements of business on the Internet.
Cybercrime discredits the use of the internet not only by business but by government too.
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Experts surmise that less than 1% of Internet content--whether business or entertainment related--now has any rights attached to it.
Investor frenzy resurfaced for fast-growing Internet companies as the stock price of business-reviews site Yelp jumped 64% in its market debut.
Many consumer Internet business executives are loyalists of the Lifetime Value model, often referred to as the LTV model or formula.
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Many entrepreneurs feel that compared to the sky rocketing internet companies featured on the covers of business magazines that they are failures.
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