For King Midas, as the Greek legend goes, everything he touches turns to gold. Yahoo's stroke is decidedly less effective.
Let's face it -- you never really leave high school.
The flashing banner ads, questionable color schemes and omnipresent "Under Construction" signs of GeoCities are no more.
Consider this: if all 19,700 members of the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) reduced their energy consumption by just 10 percent, they would save approximately $193 million in energy costs and eliminate more than one million tons of greenhouse gas emissions each year.
What makes new media so damn entertaining is that yesterday's heroes all too often become today's goats. Yahoo and eBay could do no wrong two years ago. Today, not so much.
These days, Silicon Valley is behaving like an unreconstructed alcoholic. From the Sand Hill Road offices of top venture capital firms to the office parks where consumer Internet startups are again...
Saudi Arabian state television reported Thursday that three militants thought to be on the country's most-wanted list were killed in a fierce gunfight in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah.
A group that says it is sympathetic to the aims of al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for a car bombing that ripped through the Saudi capital Riyadh, killing five and the bomber, and wounding 147 others.
The Saudi ambassador to the United States says his nation is now in "total war" against terrorists following a car bombing that ripped through the capital Riyadh, killing four people and wounding 148 others.
Just a year ago, David Wetherell was hailed as the Warren Buffett of the Internet. As the CEO of CMGI, he presided over the New Economy's leading Internet holding company and appeared to have a mag...
It's the latest craze in our office: My co-workers are registering their names as Internet domains. One man even registered a site in the name of his baby twins. So I joined the party and became mi...
When I was 12, my dad gave me 10 shares of IBM. Pointing to the columns of tiny numbers in the business section of the Sacramento Bee, he explained that at $66 a share, the total cash value of my "...
A generation ago in Internet time--roughly the middle of last year--"free" goods and services were all the rage. Freeserve, the U.K.-based Internet access provider, was giving away Net connections,...
Money, get away. Get a good job with good pay and you're okay. --Pink Floyd, "Money" If you think about it, the average consumer uses the Internet for one of two things: browsing or shopping. Brow...
Dealmaking is not what it used to be. Thanks to the Internet, the world is turning faster, and doing deals is no longer a marathon but a frantic sprint. For proof, look no further than Internet inc...
Are the words "Internet privacy" an oxymoron? Some folks think so--including Scott McNealy, CEO of hardware giant Sun Microsystems. In January, the notoriously motor-mouthed McNealy told a group of...
From Netscape to Yahoo to eBay, many of the most successful Internet stocks to date have shared a common characteristic: They cater to consumers. But soon--if a legion of venture capitalists, inves...
A TELEVISION NETWORK ON THE RISE
Candice Carpenter runs an Internet company called iVillage that had revenues of $6 million in the past quarter and expenses of $24 million. That's right--the company spent four times as much money ...
When the Internet emerged in the mid-1990s, it was deja vu for Jeremy Lent. As a consultant ten years earlier, he had urged large banks to sell credit cards through the mail, following the lead of ...
To understand the importance of the Internet, consider this year's Davos World Economic Forum. Panel discussions of the Internet economy were standing room only at the annual gathering of world and...
How ludicrous are Internet valuations? Check out these deals. @Home Network, Ford, and Yahoo paid about the same (give or take a billion) for Excite, Volvo, and GeoCities, respectively. While Volvo...
How much are you worth? This is a pretty cosmic question. In our most insecure moments, many of us may ponder this question. Lawyers on a liability case may argue interminably over the precise calc...
BUFFETT OPENS BOOKS TO A RAVE REVIEW
When Amazon.com announced in mid-November that it would sell videos online, its stock soared 22 1/4 points, and its market cap rose by $1.2 billion. That and a three-for-one stock split gave Amazon...
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