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  • Verio is a global web hosting provider headquartered in the United States. Incorporated in 1996 in Denver, Colorado, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of...
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    and home computers and biotechnology in the 1980s. Low interest rates in 1998–99 facilitated an increase in start-up companies. In 2000, the dot-com bubble...
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    Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon (/ˈæməzɒn/, AM-ə-zon; UK also /ˈæməzən/, AM-ə-zən), is an American multinational technology company, engaged...
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  • Register.com v. Verio Angwin, Julia (July 16, 2001). "The Money Maker". The Wall Street Journal. Weber, Thomas E. (April 1, 1999). "Register.Com Aims to...
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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...
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  • Kozmo.com was a venture-capital-funded online company that promised free one-hour delivery of "videos, games, DVDs, music, mags, books, food, basics &...
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  • California court ruled against theGlobe.com. Subsequently, the magazines stopped publication, Chips & Bits' home page announced the site's closing, and...
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  • lastminute.com is an online travel and leisure retailer. The company was founded by Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman in 1998 and was a part of the UK...
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  • Broadcast.com was an Internet radio company founded as AudioNet in September 1995 by Cameron Christopher Jaeb. Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban later led the...
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  • Flooz.com was a dot-com venture, now defunct, based in New York City that went online in February 1999. It was promoted by comic actress Whoopi Goldberg...
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    Webvan (redirect from Webvan.com)
    shopping". CNN. FISHER, LAWRENCE M. (June 27, 2000). "Webvan Will Acquire HomeGrocer.com". The New York Times. Emert, Carol (July 15, 2001). "Venture lessons...
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  • Reed. "TECHNOLOGY; Pets.com, Sock Puppet's Home, Will Close". Retrieved June 12, 2018. "Pets.com to buy assets of rival Petstore.com". CNET. June 13, 2000...
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    EBay (redirect from EBay.com)
    firm. The echobay.com domain name was already registered by Echo Bay Mines, a gold mining company, so Omidyar shortened it to eBay.com. In 1997, the company...
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    atrea.com. "Spanish Net IPO price raised - Nov. 12, 1999". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2022-09-03. "Lycos in $12.5B deal - May 16, 2000". money.cnn.com. Retrieved...
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  • became president and CEO of Reel.com, replacing founder Stuart Skorman. Four months later, Hollywood Video purchased Reel.com "in a deal valued at $100 million...
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  • Yahoo! (redirect from Yahoo! Homes)
    was renamed "Yahoo!" and became known as the Yahoo Directory. The "yahoo.com" domain was registered on January 18, 1995. The word "yahoo" is a backronym...
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  • providers, its stock price soared after its 1995 IPO; it was acquired in 1996. Verio: A web hosting provider, it was acquired for $5 billion at the peak of the...
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  • Startup.com is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Jehane Noujaim and Chris Hegedus. D. A. Pennebaker served as a producer on the film. It follows...
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    PayPal (redirect from PayPal.com)
    2022. Retrieved November 1, 2011. Miloseski-Reid, Paul (July 29, 2013). "Home Affairs Committee". publications.parliament.uk. Archived from the original...
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  • The WorldCom scandal was a major accounting scandal that came into light in the summer of 2002 at WorldCom, the USA's second-largest long-distance telephone...
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