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Dot-com bubble

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The dot-com bubble (also known as the dot-com boom, the dot-com crash, the Y2K crash, the Y2K bubble, the tech bubble, the Internet bubble, the dot-com collapse, and the information technology bubble) was a historic economic bubble and period of excessive speculation that occurred roughly from 1997 to 2001, a period of extreme growth in the usage and adaptation of the Internet. [1]

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@Home Network

@Home Network was a high-speed cable Internet service provider from 1996 to 2002.

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AboveNet

AboveNet was a provider of high bandwidth telecommunication circuits primarily for large corporate enterprises and communications carriers in 17 markets in the United States and four markets in Europe.

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Accounting scandals

Accounting scandals are business scandals which arise from intentional manipulation of financial statements with the disclosure of financial misdeeds by trusted executives of corporations or governments.

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Actua Corporation

Actua Corporation was a venture capital firm.

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Adelphia Communications Corporation

Adelphia Communications Corporation (former NASDAQ ticker symbol ADELQ), was a cable television company headquartered in Coudersport, Pennsylvania.

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Advertising Age

Ad Age (or Advertising Age) is a global media brand publishing analysis, news and data on marketing and media.

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Adweek

Adweek is a weekly American advertising trade publication that was first published in 1978.

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Aeron chair

The Aeron chair is an office chair designed in 1992 by Don Chadwick and Bill Stumpf.

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Airspan Networks

Airspan Networks is a supplier of broadband wireless equipment supporting the 4G LTE and WIMAX protocol standards.

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Akamai Technologies

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is an American content delivery network (CDN) and cloud service provider headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States.

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Alan Greenspan

Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926) is an American economist who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the United States from 1987 to 2006.

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Alteon WebSystems

Alteon WebSystems Incorporated, originally known as Alteon Networks, was a computer network hardware company based in San Jose, California.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American electronic commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington that was founded by Jeff Bezos on July 5, 1994.

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AOL

AOL (formerly a company known as AOL Inc., originally known as America Online, and stylized as Aol.) is a web portal and online service provider based in New York.

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Ask.com

Ask.com (originally known as Ask Jeeves) is a question answering-focused e-business and web search engine founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California.

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B2B e-commerce

B2B e-commerce (also written as e-Commerce, eCommerce or similar variants), short for business-to-business, electronic commerce, is selling products or services between businesses through the internet via an online sales portal.

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Baby Bob

Baby Bob is an American sitcom that premiered on CBS as a midseason replacement in March 2002, and aired two seasons through June 2003.

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Barron's (newspaper)

Barron's is an American weekly newspaper published by Dow Jones & Company, a property of News Corp.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bertelsmann Music Group

Bertelsmann Music Group (abbreviated as BMG) was a division of German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008.

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Bill T. Gross

William T. Gross (born 1958) is an American businessman.

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Billionaire

A billionaire, in countries that use the short scale number naming system, is a person with a net worth of at least one billion (1,000,000,000, i.e. a thousand million) units of a given currency, usually major currencies such as the United States dollar, the euro or the pound sterling.

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Bloomberg Businessweek

Bloomberg Businessweek is an American weekly business magazine published by Bloomberg L.P. Businessweek was founded in 1929.

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Bloomberg L.P.

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News is an international news agency headquartered in New York, United States and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc (formerly M.B.N.1 Limited and Bloomsbury Publishing Company Limited) is a British independent, worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Blucora

Blucora (formerly Infospace, Inc.) is a provider of Internet-related services, mostly search engines.

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Blue Coat Systems

Blue Coat Systems was a company that provided hardware, software, and services designed for cybersecurity and network management.

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Bob Davis (businessman)

Robert J. ("Bob") Davis (born 1956) is a managing partner of Highland Capital Partners.

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Boo.com

Boo.com was a short-lived, British Internet company, founded in 1998 by Swedes Ernst Malmsten, Kajsa Leander and Patrik Hedelin, who were regarded as sophisticated Internet entrepreneurs in Europe by the investors because they had created an online bookstore named Bokus.com, the third largest one in the book e-retailer (in 1997), before founding the new business Boo.com.

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Books-A-Million

Books-A-Million, Inc., also known as BAM!, owns and operates the second largest bookstore chain in the United States, operating 260 stores in 32 states.

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Brent Hoberman

Brent Shawzin Hoberman CBE (born 25 November 1968) is a British entrepreneur.

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Broadband

In telecommunications, broadband is wide bandwidth data transmission which transports multiple signals and traffic types.

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Broadband Sports

Broadband Sports is a social media and video sharing website focused on extreme sports.

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Broadcast.com

Broadcast.com was an Internet radio company founded as AudioNet in September 1995 by Christopher Jaeb.

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Broadcasting of sports events

The broadcasting of sports events (also known as a sportscast) is the live coverage of sports as a television program, on radio, and other broadcasting media.

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Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution is a century-old American research group on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C. It conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and global economy and development.

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Bureau of Labor Statistics

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) is a unit of the United States Department of Labor.

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Burn rate

Burn rate is the rate at which a company is losing money.

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Burn Rate

Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet,.

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Business Insider

Business Insider is an American financial and business news website that also operates international editions in the UK, Australia, China, Germany, France, South Africa, India, Italy, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Nordics, Poland, Spanish and Singapore.

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Business-to-business

Business-to-business (B2B or, in some countries, BtoB) refers to a situation where one business makes a commercial transaction with another.

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Capital gains tax in the United States

In the United States of America, individuals and corporations pay U.S. federal income tax on the net total of all their capital gains.

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Cash flow

A cash flow describes a real or virtual movement of money.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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CDNow

CDnow, Inc. operated an online shopping website that sold compact discs and music-related products.

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Chair of the Federal Reserve

The Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the head of the Federal Reserve, which is the central banking system of the United States.

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Chely Wright

Richell Rene Wright (born October 25, 1970) is an American country music singer and activist.

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Chemdex.com

Chemdex.com, later known as Ventro Corporation and then NexPrise, Inc., was a B2B e-commerce company that first operated an online marketplace for products related to the life sciences industry such as laboratory chemicals, enzymes, and equipment, but later expanded into a few other industries.

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Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in San Jose, California, in the center of Silicon Valley, that develops, manufactures and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products.

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Citigroup

Citigroup Inc. or Citi (stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment bank and financial services corporation headquartered in New York City.

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CKS Group

CKS Group was an advertising agency based in Cupertino, California, catering to technology companies.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American basic cable, internet and satellite business news television channel that is owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal, with both being ultimately owned by Comcast.

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CNET

CNET (stylized as c|net) is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.

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CNNMoney

CNNMoney.com is a financial news and information website, operated by CNN.

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Cobalt Networks

Cobalt Networks was a maker of low-cost Linux-based servers and server appliances.

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Commerce One

Commerce One, Inc. was a B2B e-commerce solutions provider.

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Compact disc

Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982.

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Complex (magazine)

Complex is an American New York-based media platform for youth culture which was founded as a bi-monthly magazine by fashion designer Marc (Ecko) Milecofsky.

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Corporate spin-off

A corporate spin-off, also known as a spin-out, or starburst, is a type of corporate action where a company "splits off" a section as a separate business.

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Covad

Covad Communications Group was an American provider of broadband voice and data communications.

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Cyberian Outpost

Cyberian Outpost was an online vendor of discount computer hardware and software that operated the website outpost.com.

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CyberRebate

Cyberrebate.com, Inc. was an online retailer founded in May 1998 that went bankrupt in May 2001, after the collapse of the dot-com bubble.

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Daniel Aegerter

Daniel Simon Aegerter (born July 20, 1969) is the chairman of Armada Investment Group, a family office that manages his wealth.

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David Bohnett

David C. Bohnett (born April 2, 1956) is an American philanthropist and technology entrepreneur.

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David Filo

David Robert Filo (born April 20, 1966) is an American businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang.

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David Perry (entrepreneur)

David Perry is a technology entrepreneur in the food and agriculture sectors.

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Day trading

Day trading is speculation in securities, specifically buying and selling financial instruments within the same trading day.

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Digital currency

Digital currency (digital money or electronic money or electronic currency) is a type of currency available only in digital form, not in physical (such as banknotes and coins).

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Digital divide

A digital divide is an economic and social inequality with regard to access to, use of, or impact of information and communication technologies (ICT).

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Digital Insight

Digital Insight was a provider of online banking software to banks and credit unions.

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Digital Revolution

The Digital Revolution, also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, is the shift from mechanical and analogue electronic technology to digital electronics which began anywhere from the late 1950s to the late 1970s with the adoption and proliferation of digital computers and digital record keeping that continues to the present day.

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Digital subscriber line

Digital subscriber line (DSL; originally digital subscriber loop) is a family of technologies that are used to transmit digital data over telephone lines.

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Divine (corporation)

Divine, originally Divine Interventures was a company that invested in internet companies during the dot-com bubble.

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Dixie Chicks

The Dixie Chicks are an American country music band which has also crossed over into other genres, including pop and alternative country.

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Documentary film

A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.

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Dot com party

A dot com party (often known as an internet party or more generally, a launch party) is a social and business networking party hosted by an Internet-related business, typically for promotional purposes or to celebrate a corporate event such as a product launch, venture funding round, or corporate acquisition.

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Dot-com commercials during Super Bowl XXXIV

Super Bowl XXXIV (played in January 2000) featured 14 advertisements from 14 different dot-com companies, each of which paid an average of $2.2 million per spot.

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Dot-com company

A dot-com company, or simply a dot-com (alternatively rendered dot.com, dot com or.com), is a company that does most of its business on the Internet, usually through a website that uses the popular top-level domain ".com".

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DoubleClick

DoubleClick is a subsidiary of Google which develops and provides Internet ad serving services.

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Dulles Technology Corridor

The Dulles Technology Corridor is a business cluster containing many defense and technology companies, located in Northern Virginia near Washington Dulles International Airport.

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E-commerce

E-commerce is the activity of buying or selling of products on online services or over the Internet.

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E-Dreams

e-Dreams is a 2002 American documentary film directed by Wonsuk Chin portraying the rise and fall of Kozmo.com, an online convenience store that utilized bike messengers to deliver goods ordered online within an hour.

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E-Trade

E-Trade Financial Corporation (stylized as E*TRADE) is a financial services company organized in Delaware and headquartered in New York City.

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EBay

eBay Inc. is a multinational e-commerce corporation based in San Jose, California that facilitates consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer sales through its website.

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Economic bubble

An economic bubble or asset bubble (sometimes also referred to as a speculative bubble, a market bubble, a price bubble, a financial bubble, a speculative mania, or a balloon) is trade in an asset at a price or price range that strongly exceeds the asset's intrinsic value.

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Educational technology

Educational technology is "the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources".

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EGain

eGain Corporation (formerly known as eGain Communications Corporation) is a customer engagement cloud solutions company, traded on the NASDAQ.

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Elon Musk

Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is an American business magnate, investor and engineer.

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Employee stock option

An employee stock option (ESO) is commonly viewed as a complex call option on the common stock of a company, granted by the company to an employee as part of the employee's remuneration package.

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Enron scandal

The Enron scandal was a financial scandal that eventually led to the bankruptcy of the Enron Corporation, an American energy company based in Houston, Texas, and the de facto dissolution of Arthur Andersen, which was one of the five largest audit and accountancy partnerships in the world.

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Eric Brewer (scientist)

Eric Allen Brewer is professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley and vice-president of infrastructure at Google.

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EToys.com

eToys.com was a retail website that sold toys via the Internet.

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Evan Thornley

Evan William Thornley (born 1964), is an Australian entrepreneur.

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Excite

Excite (stylized as excite) is an internet portal launched in December 1995 that provides a variety of content including news and weather, a metasearch engine, a web-based email, instant messaging, stock quotes, and a customizable user homepage.

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Faith Hill

Audrey Faith McGraw (née Perry; born September 21, 1967), known professionally as Faith Hill, is an American singer and record producer.

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Fast Company (magazine)

Fast Company is a monthly American business magazine published in print and online that focuses on technology, business, and design.

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Flooz.com

Flooz.com was a dot-com venture, now defunct, based in New York City that went online in February 1999, promoted by comic actress Whoopi Goldberg in a series of television advertisements.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine.

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Fortune (magazine)

Fortune is an American multinational business magazine headquartered in New York City, United States.

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Fortune 500

The Fortune 500 is an annual list compiled and published by Fortune magazine that ranks 500 of the largest United States corporations by total revenue for their respective fiscal years.

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Fraud

In law, fraud is deliberate deception to secure unfair or unlawful gain, or to deprive a victim of a legal right.

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Fred Wilson (financier)

Fred Wilson (born August 20, 1961) is an American businessman, venture capitalist and blogger.

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Free Press (publisher)

Free Press was a book publishing imprint of Simon & Schuster.

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Freei

Freei (aka Freei.net, FreeInternet.com, Freei Networks Inc.) was a free internet service provider from 1998-2000.

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Fry's Electronics

Fry's Electronics is an American big-box store and retailer of software, consumer electronics, household appliances and computer hardware.

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Gadzoox

Gadzoox produced hardware and software for the entry-level storage area network market.

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Geeknet

Geeknet, Inc. is a Fairfax County, Virginia–based company that owns the online retailer ThinkGeek and is a subsidiary of GameStop.

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General glut

In macroeconomics, a general glut is an excess of supply in relation to demand, specifically, when there is more production in all fields of production in comparison with what resources are available to consume (purchase) said production.

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Gerald M. Levin

Gerald M. "Jerry" Levin (born May 6, 1939) is an American mass-media businessman.

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Global Crossing

Global Crossing was a telecommunications company that provided computer networking services and operated a tier 1 carrier.

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Google

Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

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GovWorks

govWorks Inc. was a dot-com company that was founded in 1998 by Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, Tom Herman and Chieh Cheung.

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Handspring (company)

Handspring, Inc was a maker of Palm OS-based Visor- and Treo-branded personal digital assistants.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C. is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.

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Healtheon

Healtheon was a dot-com company founded by James H. Clark and Pavan Nigam.

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Hedge (finance)

A hedge is an investment position intended to offset potential losses or gains that may be incurred by a companion investment.

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Henry Blodget

Henry Blodget (born 1966) is an American businessman, investor and, journalist.

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Herman Miller (manufacturer)

Herman Miller, Inc., based in Zeeland, Michigan, is an American company that produces office furniture, equipment and home furnishings.

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HomeGrocer

HomeGrocer.com, Inc. was one of the first online supermarket businesses, started in 1997 by Terry Drayton, Mike Donald, James Fierro and Ken Deering.

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Howard Jonas

Howard S. Jonas (born 2 June 1956) is the founder of IDT Corporation and Genie Energy.

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Hype cycle

The hype cycle is a branded graphical presentation developed and used by the American research, advisory and information technology firm Gartner, for representing the maturity, adoption and social application of specific technologies.

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Information Age

The Information Age (also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age) is a 21st century period in human history characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information technology.

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Information technology

Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to store, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate data, or information, often in the context of a business or other enterprise.

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Infoseek

Infoseek was a popular internet search engine founded in 1994 by Steve Kirsch.

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Initial public offering

Initial public offering (IPO) or stock market launch is a type of public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also retail (individual) investors; an IPO is underwritten by one or more investment banks, who also arrange for the shares to be listed on one or more stock exchanges.

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Inktomi

Inktomi Corporation was a company that provided software for Internet service providers (ISPs).

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Intel

Intel Corporation (stylized as intel) is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, in the Silicon Valley.

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Interactive Intelligence

Interactive Intelligence was a telecommunications software and cloud computing development company that provided unified business communications solutions for call centers, Voice over IP companies, and business process automation.

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Internet

The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.

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Internet access

Internet access is the ability of individuals and organizations to connect to the Internet using computer terminals, computers, and other devices; and to access services such as email and the World Wide Web.

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Internet America

Internet America was an internet service provider that operated in Texas.

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Internet service provider

An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet.

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Internet-related prefixes

Internet-related prefixes such as e-, i-, cyber-, info-, techno- and net- are added to a wide range of existing words to describe new, Internet- or computer-related flavors of existing concepts, often electronic products and services that already have a non-electronic counterpart.

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Investment banking

An investment bank is typically a private company that provides various finance-related and other services to individuals, corporations, and governments such as raising financial capital by underwriting or acting as the client's agent in the issuance of securities.

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Investopedia

Investopedia is a privately owned website based in New York City that focuses on investing education and financial news.

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Irrational exuberance

"Irrational exuberance" is a phrase used by the then-Federal Reserve Board chairman, Alan Greenspan, in a speech given at the American Enterprise Institute during the dot-com bubble of the 1990s.

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ITunes

iTunes is a media player, media library, Internet radio broadcaster, and mobile device management application developed by Apple Inc. It was announced on January 9, 2001.

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IVillage

iVillage, Inc. was a mass media company that operated several websites focused on categories targeted at women.

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IWon

IWon.com was a free casual game site and web portal that offered the chance to win cash for charities through activities such as playing online games.

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James H. Clark

James Henry Clark (born March 23, 1944) is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Japanese asset price bubble

The was an economic bubble in Japan from 1986 to 1991 in which real estate and stock market prices were greatly inflated.

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Jeff Bezos

Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born Jorgensen; January 12, 1964) is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon, the world's largest online retailer.

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Jerry Yang

Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang (born November 6, 1968) is a Taiwanese-American Internet entrepreneur, engineer, and programmer.

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Joe Kraus

Joe Kraus is the founder of Excite, JotSpot, and DigitalConsumer.org, along with his long-time business partner Graham Spencer.

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John Wiley & Sons

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing.

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Joseph Park

Joseph Park (born c. 1972) is a Korean American investment banker that founded Kozmo.com in 1997.

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Julie Wainwright

Julie Wainwright is an e-commerce entrepreneur.

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Juno Online Services

Juno Online Services, also called simply Juno, is an Internet service provider based in the United States.

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Kakao

Kakao (카카오) is a South Korean internet company established in 2014. It was formed from a merger of Daum Communications and Kakao to Daum Kakao in 2014. The company changed its name from Daum Kakao to Kakao in 2015. On May 28, 2015, the company acquired Path, a US social media company that had met with success in Asia. On January 11, 2016, Kakao acquired a 76.4 percent stake in LOEN Entertainment (now Kakao M), Korea's top online music service for $1.5 billion. Kakao Corporation's most prominent app has been KakaoTalk, which had 49.47 million downloads in 2017.

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Kaleil Isaza Tuzman

Kaleil Isaza Tuzman is a former entrepreneur associated with digital media, who spent more than 20 years in that industry before being convicted of multiple counts of fraud in 2017.

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Keith J. Krach

Keith J. Krach (born April 1, 1957) is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist.

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Ken Fox

Kenneth Allen Fox is an American entrepreneur and investor.

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Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Kiplinger's Personal Finance (KIP-ling-ers) is an American personal finance magazine published by Kiplinger since 1947.

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Kiss (band)

Kiss (often stylized as KISS) is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, and Ace Frehley.

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Kozmo.com

Kozmo.com was a venture-capital-funded online company that promised free one-hour delivery of "videos, games, dvds, music, mags, books, food, basics & more" and Starbucks coffee in several major cities in the United States.

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Larry Augustin

Larry Augustin (born October 10, 1962) is the Chairman of SugarCRM.

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Las Vegas

Las Vegas (Spanish for "The Meadows"), officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County.

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Lastminute.com

lastminute.com is an online travel and leisure retailer.

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LeAnn Rimes

Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian (born August 28, 1982) is an American singer, songwriter, actress and author.

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Linux

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.

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Liquid Audio

Liquid Audio Inc was a US software company based in Redwood City, California.

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Liquidation

In United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland and United States law and business, liquidation is the process by which a company is brought to an end.

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Lock-up period

A lock-up period, also known as a lock in, lock out, or locked up period, is a predetermined amount of time following an initial public offering where large shareholders, such as company executives and investors representing considerable ownership, are restricted from selling their shares.

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LookSmart

LookSmart is a search advertising company.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Lycos

Lycos, Inc., is a web search engine and web portal established in 1995, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University.

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MarchFirst

marchFIRST, Inc. was a web development company.

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Mark Cuban

Mark Cuban (born July 31, 1958) is an American businessman and investor.

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Market capitalization

Market capitalization (market cap) is the market value of a publicly traded company's outstanding shares.

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Market share

Market share is the percentage of a market (defined in terms of either units or revenue) accounted for by a specific entity.

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Mary Meeker

Mary Meeker (born September 1959) is an American venture capitalist and former Wall Street securities analyst.

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Masayoshi Son

is a Japanese business magnate and investor of Korean descent who is the founder and current chief executive officer of Japanese holding conglomerate SoftBank, the chief executive officer of SoftBank Mobile, current chairman of U.S.-based Sprint Corporation and chairman of U.K.-based Arm Holdings.

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Mattel

Mattel, Inc. is an American multinational toy manufacturing company founded in 1945 with headquarters in El Segundo, California.

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MCI Inc.

MCI, Inc. (d/b/a Verizon Business) was an American telecommunication corporation, currently a subsidiary of Verizon Communications, with its main office in Ashburn, Virginia.

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Mergers and acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are transactions in which the ownership of companies, other business organizations, or their operating units are transferred or consolidated with other entities.

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Merrill Lynch

Merrill Lynch Wealth Management is a wealth management division of Bank of America.

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Michael Loren Mauldin

Michael Loren "Fuzzy" Mauldin (born March 23, 1959) is a retired computer scientist and the inventor of the Lycos web search engine.

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MicroStrategy

MicroStrategy Incorporated is a company that provides business intelligence (BI), mobile software, and cloud-based services.

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Mind share

Mind share relates generally to the development of consumer awareness or popularity, and is one of the main objectives of advertising and promotion.

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MIT Press

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States).

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Mobile phone

A mobile phone, known as a cell phone in North America, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area.

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ModusLink Global Solutions

Steel Connect, Inc. is a company that provides supply chain management services to software companies.

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Monopolization

In US antitrust law, monopolization is an illegal and the main categories of prohibited behavior include exclusive dealing, price discrimination, refusing to supply an essential facility, product tying and predatory pricing.

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Monster.com

Monster.com is an America-based global employment website owned and operated by Monster Worldwide, Inc. It was created in 1999 through the merger of The Monster Board (TMB) and Online Career Center (OCC).

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Mosaic (web browser)

NCSA Mosaic, or simply Mosaic, is the web browser that popularized the World Wide Web and the Internet.

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Nasdaq Composite

The NASDAQ Composite (ticker symbol ^IXIC) is a stock market index of the common stocks and similar securities (e.g. ADRs, tracking stocks, limited partnership interests) listed on the NASDAQ stock market.

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Natalie Cole

Natalie Maria Cole (February 6, 1950 – December 31, 2015) was an American singer, voice actress, songwriter, and actress.

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Naveen Jain

Naveen K. Jain (born September 6, 1959) is a business executive, entrepreneur and the founder and former CEO of InfoSpace.

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Net operating loss

Under U.S. Federal income tax law, a net operating loss (NOL) occurs when certain tax-deductible expenses exceed taxable revenues for a taxable year.

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Net2Phone

Net2phone provides VoIP and cloud computing-based telephony products and services.

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Netscape

Netscape is a brand name associated with the development of the Netscape web browser.

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Network effect

A network effect (also called network externality or demand-side economies of scale) is the positive effect described in economics and business that an additional user of a good or service has on the value of that product to others.

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NetZero

NetZero is an Internet service provider based in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.

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New economy

The new economy is the result of the transition from a manufacturing-based economy to a service-based economy.

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News media

The news media or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public.

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Nikkei 225

The, more commonly called the Nikkei, the Nikkei index, or the Nikkei Stock Average, is a stock market index for the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE).

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NorthPoint Communications

NorthPoint Communications Group, Inc. was a competitive local exchange carrier focused on data transmission.

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Online auction

An online auction is an auction which is held over the internet.

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Online music store

An online music store is an online business which sells audio files over the Internet, usually sound recordings of music songs or classical pieces, in which the user pays on a per-song or subscription basis.

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Online shopping

Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce which allows consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet using a web browser.

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Optical fiber

An optical fiber or optical fibre is a flexible, transparent fiber made by drawing glass (silica) or plastic to a diameter slightly thicker than that of a human hair.

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Orion Publishing Group

Orion Publishing Group Ltd.

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Palm, Inc.

Palm, Inc. was an American company that specialized in manufacturing personal digital assistants (PDAs) and other electronics.

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Paul Graham (programmer)

Paul Graham (born 13 November 1964) is an English born computer scientist, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and essayist.

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PCM, Inc.

PCM, Inc. is a direct marketing company that offers technology products and services.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books is a British publishing house.

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Pete Musser

Warren V. "Pete" Musser (born 1928) is chairman of the Musser Group.

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Pets.com

Pets.com Inc. was a dot-com enterprise that sold pet supplies to retail customers.

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PFSweb

PFSweb, Inc.

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Pixelon

Pixelon was a dot-com company founded in 1998 that promised better distribution of high-quality video over the Internet.

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PLX Technology

PLX Technology was a manufacturer of integrated circuits focused on PCI Express and ethernet technologies.

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PR Newswire

PR Newswire is a distributor of press releases based in New York City.

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Price–earnings ratio

The price/earnings ratio (often shortened to the P/E ratio or the PER) is the ratio of a company's stock price to the company's earnings per share.

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Prodigy (online service)

Prodigy Communications Corporation (Prodigy Services Corp., Prodigy Services Co., Trintex) was an online service that offered its subscribers access to a broad range of networked services, including news, weather, shopping, bulletin boards, games, polls, expert columns, banking, stocks, travel, and a variety of other features.

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Programmer

A programmer, developer, dev, coder, or software engineer is a person who creates computer software.

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Pseudo.com

Pseudo.com was a website for live audio and video webcasting.

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Public company

A public company, publicly traded company, publicly held company, publicly listed company, or public corporation is a corporation whose ownership is dispersed among the general public in many shares of stock which are freely traded on a stock exchange or in over the counter markets.

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Qualcomm

Qualcomm is an American multinational semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company that designs and markets wireless telecommunications products and services.

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Quaternary sector of the economy

The quaternary sector of the economy is a way to describe a knowledge-based part of the economy, which typically includes services such as information technology, information-generation and -sharing, media, and research and development, as well as knowledge-based services like consultation, education, financial planning, blogging, and designing.

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QuinStreet

QuinStreet, Inc. is a publicly traded marketing company based in Foster City, California.

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Radvision

Radvision was a provider of video conferencing and telepresence technologies over IP and wireless networks based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

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Razorfish (company)

Razorfish, part of Publicis Groupe, is one of the world's largest interactive agencies.

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Recession

In economics, a recession is a business cycle contraction which results in a general slowdown in economic activity.

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Redback Networks

Redback Networks was a telecommunications equipment company, specializing in hardware and software used by ISPs to manage broadband services.

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Ritmoteca.com

Ritmoteca.com was an online music store and early pioneer in the online downloadable music space.

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Robert Levitan

Robert Levitan (born April 22, 1961) is an American businessman best known for his multiple entrepreneurial activities in New York City’s Silicon Alley, the cluster of web and technology businesses stretching from Manhattan’s Flatiron District through SoHo and TriBeCa.

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Robin Li

Robin Li or Li Yanhong (born 17 November 1968) is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur, co-founder of the search engine Baidu, and one of the richest people in China, with a net worth of US$18.5 billion as of October 2017.

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S&P 500 Index

The Standard & Poor's 500, often abbreviated as the S&P 500, or just the S&P, is an American stock market index based on the market capitalizations of 500 large companies having common stock listed on the NYSE or NASDAQ.

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Salon (website)

Salon is an American news and opinion website, created by David Talbot in 1995 and currently owned by the Salon Media Group.

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SatireWire

From 1999 to 2002, and restarted in 2010 SatireWire is a news satire website on the Internet.

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Savvis

Savvis, formerly SVVS on Nasdaq and formerly known as Savvis Communications Corporation, and, later, Savvis Inc., is a subsidiary of CenturyLink, a company headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana.

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Seoul

Seoul (like soul; 서울), officially the Seoul Special Metropolitan City – is the capital, Constitutional Court of Korea and largest metropolis of South Korea.

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September 11 attacks

The September 11, 2001 attacks (also referred to as 9/11) were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001.

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Sherman Antitrust Act

The Sherman Antitrust Act (Sherman Act) is a landmark federal statute in the history of United States antitrust law (or "competition law") passed by Congress in 1890 under the presidency of Benjamin Harrison.

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Social networking service

A social networking service (also social networking site, SNS or social media) is a web application that people use to build social networks or social relations with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.

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SoHo, Manhattan

SoHo, sometimes written Soho, is a neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York City, which in recent history came to the public's attention for being the location of many artists' lofts and art galleries, but is now better known for its variety of shops ranging from trendy upscale boutiques to national and international chain store outlets.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.

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Speculation

Speculation is the purchase of an asset (a commodity, goods, or real estate) with the hope that it will become more valuable at a future date.

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Startup.com

Startup.com is a 2001 American documentary film about the dot-com start-up govWorks.com, which raised $60 million USD in funding from Hearst Interactive Media, KKR, the New York Investment Fund, and Sapient.

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Startups.com

Startups.com was the "ultimate dot-com startup", founded in 1998 Evans, Sean.

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Steve Case

Stephen McConnell Case (born August 21, 1958) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and businessman best known as the former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online (AOL).

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Steve Kirsch

Steven Todd Kirsch (born December 24, 1956) is an American serial entrepreneur who has started seven companies: Mouse Systems, Frame Technology Corp., Infoseek, Propel, Abaca, OneID, and Token.

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Stock market bubble

A stock market bubble is a type of economic bubble taking place in stock markets when market participants drive stock prices above their value in relation to some system of stock valuation.

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Stock market downturn of 2002

In 2001, stock prices took a sharp downturn (some say "stock market crash" or "the Internet bubble bursting") in stock markets across the United States, Canada, Asia, and Europe.

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Stock market index

A stock index or stock market index is a measurement of a section of the stock market.

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Stock split

A stock split or stock divide increases the number of shares in a company.

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Storage area network

A storage area network (SAN) is a Computer network which provides access to consolidated, block level data storage.

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Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix (sometimes termed postfix) is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.

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Sugar Ray

Sugar Ray is an American rock band from Newport Beach, California.

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Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. was an American company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the Network File System (NFS), and SPARC.

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Super Bowl XXXV

Super Bowl XXXV was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Baltimore Ravens and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2000 season.

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Tax Day

In the United States, Tax Day is a colloquial term for the day on which individual income tax returns are due to be submitted to the federal government.

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Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997

The Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997 reduced several federal taxes in the United States.

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TechCrunch

TechCrunch is an American online publisher of technology industry news founded in 2005 by Archimedes Ventures whose partners were Michael Arrington and Keith Teare.

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Technological utopianism

Technological utopianism (often called techno-utopian-ism or technoutopianism) is any ideology based on the premise that advances in science and technology could and should bring about a utopia, or at least help to fulfill one or another utopian ideal.

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Ted Leonsis

Theodore John Leonsis (born January 8, 1957) is an American businessman, investor, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and former politician.

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Ted Turner

Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media mogul and philanthropist.

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Telecommunications Act of 1996

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 was the first significant overhaul of telecommunications law in more than sixty years, amending the Communications Act of 1934.

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Telecommunications equipment

Telecommunications equipment (also telecoms equipment or communications equipment) is hardware used for the purposes of telecommunications.

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Telecoms crash

The Telecoms crash was a stock market crash which occurred in 2001.

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Terra (company)

Terra Networks, S.A. is a Spanish Internet multinational company with headquarters in Spain and offices in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, the United States and Peru.

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The Brian Setzer Orchestra

The Brian Setzer Orchestra (sometimes known by its initials BSO) is a swing and jump blues band formed in 1990 by Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer.

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The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles in electronic format as well as a weekly print edition.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Learning Company

The Learning Company (TLC) is an American educational software company, currently owned by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana)

The News-Gazette is a daily newspaper serving eleven counties in the eastern portion of Central Illinois and specifically the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area.

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The Seattle Times

The Seattle Times is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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TheGlobe.com

theGlobe.com was an internet startup founded in 1995 at news.com.

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Think Tools

Think Tools AG (SWX: TTO) was a Swiss IT company that rose and fell with the dot com bubble in Europe.

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Thomas Penfield Jackson

Thomas Penfield Jackson (January 10, 1937 – June 15, 2013) was a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

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Throughput

In general terms, throughput is the maximum rate of production or the maximum rate at which something can be processed.

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TIBCO Software

TIBCO Software Inc. is an American company that provides integration, analytics and event-processing software for companies to use on-premises or as part of cloud computing environments.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Timothy Koogle

Timothy Andrew Koogle (born July 5,1951) was first CEO and President of web company Yahoo! between 1995 and 2001.

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Todd Wagner

Todd R. Wagner (born August 2, 1960) is the co-founder Broadcast.com and founder and CEO of the Charity Network.

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Tony Bennett

Anthony Dominick Benedetto (born August 3, 1926), known professionally as Tony Bennett, is an American singer of traditional pop standards, big band, show tunes, and jazz.

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Tradex Technologies

Tradex Technologies Inc. was a developer of Java-based B2B e-commerce software.

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Transmeta

Transmeta Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California.

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Tying (commerce)

Tying (informally, product tying) is the practice of selling one product or service as a mandatory addition to the purchase of a different product or service.

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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent agency of the United States federal government.

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UBid

uBid.com is an online auction style and fixed-price shopping website that offers both goods sold directly by the company and items sold by pre-approved third party uBid-certified merchants.

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Unicorn bubble

A unicorn bubble is an economic bubble that occurs when unicorn startup companies are overvalued by venture capitalists or investors in an initial public offering (a unicorn company being one which is valued at, or above, $1 billion US dollars).

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United Online

United Online, Inc. was an independent public company formed by the 2001 merger of NetZero and Juno Online Services.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Department of Labor

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) is a cabinet-level department of the U.S. federal government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, reemployment services, and some economic statistics; many U.S. states also have such departments.

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United States v. Microsoft Corp.

United States v. Microsoft Corporation, 253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001), is a U.S. antitrust law case, ultimately settled by the Department of Justice (DOJ), in which Microsoft Corporation was accused of holding a monopoly and engaging in anti-competitive practices contrary to sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.

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Usinternetworking Inc

USinternetworking, Inc. (USi) was an application service provider.

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USWeb

USWeb was an Internet marketing company founded in 1995 by former Novell executives Joe Firmage, Toby Corey, and Sheldon Laube during the dot com bubble.

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Variety (magazine)

Variety is a weekly American entertainment trade magazine and website owned by Penske Media Corporation.

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Venture capital

Venture capital (VC) is a type of private equity, a form of financing that is provided by firms or funds to small, early-stage, emerging firms that are deemed to have high growth potential, or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, or both).

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VentureBeat

VentureBeat is an American technology website.

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Verizon Communications

Verizon Communications Inc., or simply Verizon, is an American multinational telecommunications conglomerate and a corporate component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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VerticalNet

Verticalnet, Inc. was a host of 43 business-to-business (B2B) procurement portals headquartered in Horsham, Pennsylvania.

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Vignette Corporation

Vignette Corporation offered a suite of content management, web portal, collaboration, document management, and records management software.

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Voice over IP

Voice over Internet Protocol (also voice over IP, VoIP or IP telephony) is a methodology and group of technologies for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol (IP) networks, such as the Internet.

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Walter Buckley (businessman)

Walter White Buckley III (born 1960) is the chairman of Actua Corporation, a company that he co-founded along with Ken Fox.

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WarnerMedia

Warner Media, LLC (formerly Time Warner Inc.), doing business as WarnerMedia, is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered in New York City and owned by AT&T.

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Web 2.0

Web 2.0 refers to World Wide Web websites that emphasize user-generated content, usability (ease of use, even by non-experts), and interoperability (this means that a website can work well with other products, systems, and devices) for end users.

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Web development

Web development is a broad term for the work involved in developing a web site for the Internet (World Wide Web) or an intranet (a private network).

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Web portal

A web portal is a specially designed website that brings information from diverse sources, like emails, online forums and search engines, together in a uniform way.

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WebMD

WebMD is an American corporation known primarily as an online publisher of news and information pertaining to human health and well-being.

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Webvan

Webvan was an online grocery business that filed bankruptcy in 2001 after 3 years of operation and was later folded into Amazon.com.

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Whoopi Goldberg

Caryn Elaine Johnson (born November 13, 1955), known professionally as Whoopi Goldberg, is an American actress, comedian, author, and television host.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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World Wide Web

The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and accessible via the Internet.

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc..

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Yahoo! GeoCities

Yahoo! GeoCities is a web hosting service.

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Yahoo! HotJobs

Yahoo HotJobs, formerly known as hotjobs.com, was an online job search engine.

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Year 2000 problem

The Year 2000 problem, also known as the Y2K problem, the Millennium bug, the Y2K bug, or Y2K, is a class of computer bugs related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates beginning in the year 2000.

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Yield curve

In finance, the yield curve is a curve showing several yields or interest rates across different contract lengths (2 month, 2 year, 20 year, etc....) for a similar debt contract.

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.com

The domain name com is a top-level domain (TLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet.

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360networks

360networks, Inc. was a wholesale telecommunications carrier.

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3Com

3Com Corporation was a digital electronics manufacturer best known for its computer network products.

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3G

3G, short for third generation, is the third generation of wireless mobile telecommunications technology.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble

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