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Boo.com

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Boo.com was a short-lived British eCommerce business, 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 book e-retailer (in 1997), before founding boo.com. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 42 relations: Adobe Flash, Advertising, Amsterdam, Avatar (computing), Bloomingdale's, Bo Derek, Broadband, Carnaby Street, Clothing, CNET, Cosmetics, Dan Wagner, Deutsche Post, Dot-com bubble, Dot-com company, E-commerce, Internet, JavaScript, Lebanon, Liquidation, London, Munich, Naamloze vennootschap, NetSuite, New York City, Paris, Postmortem documentation, Public relations, Rafic Hariri, Receivership, Retail, Stockholm, Swedes, The Guardian, The New York Times, Tristan Louis, Usability, Venda Inc, Venture capital, WHOIS, Women's Wear Daily, 2.5D.

  2. Defunct online companies
  3. Internet properties disestablished in 2000
  4. Online clothing retailers of the United Kingdom
  5. Retail companies disestablished in 2000

Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash (formerly Macromedia Flash and FutureSplash) is a discontinuedexcept in China, where it continues to be used, as well as Harman for enterprise users.

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Advertising

Advertising is the practice and techniques employed to bring attention to a product or service.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam (literally, "The Dam on the River Amstel") is the capital and most populated city of the Netherlands.

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Avatar (computing)

In computing, an avatar is a graphical representation of a user, the user's character, or persona.

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Bloomingdale's

Bloomingdale's Inc. is an American luxury department store chain founded in 1861 by Joseph Bloomingdale and Lyman Bloomingdale.

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Bo Derek

Bo Derek (born Mary Cathleen Collins, November 20, 1956) is an American actress.

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Broadband

In telecommunications, broadband or high speed is the wide-bandwidth data transmission that exploits signals at a wide spread of frequencies or several different simultaneous frequencies, and is used in fast Internet access.

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Carnaby Street

Carnaby Street is a pedestrianised shopping street in Soho in the City of Westminster, Central London.

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Clothing

Clothing (also known as clothes, garments, dress, apparel, or attire) is any item worn on the body.

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CNET

CNET (short for "Computer Network") is an American media website that publishes reviews, news, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos on technology and consumer electronics globally.

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Cosmetics

Cosmetics are composed of mixtures of chemical compounds derived from either natural sources or synthetically created ones.

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Dan Wagner

Daniel Maurice Wagner (born 28 July 1963) is a British Internet entrepreneur.

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Deutsche Post

Deutsche Post is a division of the DHL Group used for its domestic mail services in Germany.

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Dot-com bubble

The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000.

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Dot-com company

A dot-com company, or simply a dot-com (alternatively rendered dot.com, dot com, dotcom or.com), is a company that conducts most of its businesses on the Internet, usually through a website on the World Wide Web that uses the popular top-level domain ".com". Boo.com and dot-com company are dot-com bubble.

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E-commerce

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

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Internet

The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

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JavaScript

JavaScript, often abbreviated as JS, is a programming language and core technology of the Web, alongside HTML and CSS.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.

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Liquidation

Liquidations is the process in accounting by which a company is brought to an end.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Munich

Munich (München) is the capital and most populous city of the Free State of Bavaria, Germany.

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Naamloze vennootschap

Naamloze vennootschap (correctly abbreviated NV) or (in the French Community of Belgium) Société anonyme (SA) is a type of public company defined by business law in the Netherlands, Belgium, Indonesia (where it is known as perseroan terbatas, correctly abbreviated PT and allows for private companies), and Suriname.

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NetSuite

NetSuite Inc. is an American cloud-based enterprise software company that provides products and services tailored for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) including accounting and financial management, customer relationship management, inventory management, human capital management, payroll, procurement, project management and e-commerce software.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Postmortem documentation

A project post-mortem is a process used to identify the causes of a project failure (or significant business-impairing downtime), and how to prevent them in the future.

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Public relations

Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing and disseminating information from an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) to the public in order to influence their perception.

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Rafic Hariri

Rafic Bahaa El Deen al-Hariri (translit; 1 November 1944 – 14 February 2005), also known as Rafiq al-Hariri, was a Lebanese businessman and politician, who served as the Prime Minister of Lebanon from 1992 to 1998 and again from 2000 until he resigned on, before his assassination in 2005.

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Receivership

In law, receivership is a situation in which an institution or enterprise is held by a receiver – a person "placed in the custodial responsibility for the property of others, including tangible and intangible assets and rights" – especially in cases where a company cannot meet its financial obligations and is said to be insolvent.

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Retail

Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries.

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Swedes

Swedes (svenskar) are an ethnic group native to Sweden, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and language. They mostly inhabit Sweden and the other Nordic countries, in particular Finland where they are an officially recognized minority, with Swedish being one of the official languages of the country, and with a substantial diaspora in other countries, especially the United States.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tristan Louis

Tristan Louis (born February 28, 1971) is a French-born American author, entrepreneur and internet activist.

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Usability

Usability can be described as the capacity of a system to provide a condition for its users to perform the tasks safely, effectively, and efficiently while enjoying the experience.

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Venda Inc

Venda, Inc. is a technology company that produces ecommerce software as a service.

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Venture capital

Venture capital (VC) is a form of private equity financing provided by firms or funds to startup, early-stage, and emerging companies, that have been deemed to have high growth potential or that have demonstrated high growth in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc.

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WHOIS

WHOIS (pronounced as the phrase "who is") is a query and response protocol that is used for querying databases that store an Internet resource's registered users or assignees.

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Women's Wear Daily

Women's Wear Daily (also known as WWD) is a fashion-industry trade journal often referred to as the "Bible of fashion".

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2.5D

2.5D (basic pronunciation two-and-a-half dimensional) perspective refers to gameplay or movement in a video game or virtual reality environment that is restricted to a two-dimensional (2D) plane with little or no access to a third dimension in a space that otherwise appears to be three-dimensional and is often simulated and rendered in a 3D digital environment.

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See also

Defunct online companies

Internet properties disestablished in 2000

Online clothing retailers of the United Kingdom

Retail companies disestablished in 2000

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boo.com