In 2000, at the peak of the technology bubble, the industry rolled out 96 tech funds.
During the technology bubble of the late 1990s, the Federal budget turned a surplus.
Like the technology bubble and the housing bubble, this latest bubble could last for a while.
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During the technology bubble, media groups splashed out lavishly on Internet-related projects, many of which flopped.
Social media seems to have caused a similar frenzy as the technology bubble did in the early 2000s.
Largely unaffected by the technology bubble, it remains to be seen whether Australia can weather a property bubble.
Many market observers would question that assumption, especially after experiencing the technology bubble.
Atul was set to make a killing, but a month later the technology bubble burst and Nomura backed out of the deal.
Now that the technology bubble has burst, Mr Buffett's strategy of conservative bricks-and-mortars investments has turned out to deliver better long-term returns.
The company suffered when the technology bubble burst, dropping out of the FTSE 100 and having to issue a profit warning in 2001.
But this gamble can backfire, as it did for New Jersey, which issued pension bonds in 1997 and suffered when the technology bubble burst.
Dennis Koyle, a 61-year-old farmer and saddle maker in Gooding, Idaho, pulled back on stock investments after being burned by the technology bubble in 2001.
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This is especially the case in Europe, where many private-equity funds avoided the excesses of the American technology bubble and have even made decent returns.
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There is a disturbing similarity to the reason that punters flocked to IPOs in America in the technology bubble: shares were rising a lot, and fast.
When the technology bubble burst, pension funds were left with worthless stakes in private-equity deals that had gone sour, on top of the damage done by tumbling stockmarkets.
It was not surprising, then, that its exports should have fallen in the past year as the technology bubble burst and the world's biggest economies headed for recession.
The previous record-holder in terms of aggregate market-cap was Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) which hit its all-time high on December 30, 1999 at the height of the technology bubble.
The central bank had pushed rates down to encourage economic growth after the bursting of the technology bubble in the stock market in 2000 and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
During the late-'90s technology bubble, Griffin and his research partners watched as individual investors kept buying tech stocks as their prices continued to fall, thinking they were buying a bargain when in fact they were hitching themselves to an anchor.
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Still, I would say that awareness among Fortune 500 CEOs of what Indian companies can offer has become even sharper since 2001, when the technology bubble burst and companies started trimming their IT budgets and looking for better value for their money.
This is not like the technology stock bubble that popped in 2000.
On the contrary, all the signs are that the markets remain in the grip of a technology-related bubble.
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When asked whether there is a danger of another technology stock market bubble, Gates said that definitely some stocks are overpriced.
But Blair also warned against a technology-driven stock market bubble.
Remember, aside from the bubble run-up, technology stocks tended to sell at only a 20% to 30% premium.
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Forbes' own Gilder Technology Report has performed terribly since the tech stock bubble burst.
This may simply reflect the nature of this business, but it provokes the criticism that this technology has something substantial in common with the tech bubble: a lack of underlying business viability.
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