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"Dot-con job: How InfoSpace took its investors for a ride"
"Executives at the region's biggest dot-com created the illusion of success, boasting of rocketing revenues and unlimited potential., Privately, many insiders were cashing out millions, and faithful investors were soon left with pennies on the dollar. A three-day Seattle Times series details the deception."
Tags: corruption; business; Seattle; Washington; dot-coms; Infospace
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The Emperor of Greed
What goes up, comes down. However, Global Crossing telecom head Gary Winnick dug his own grave, says Fortune. After transforming himself from a furniture salesman to one of the most sought-after millionaires, Winnick started swindling money from Global Crossing. And it only had to stop when the telecom giant with a simple business plan filed for bankruptcy after the dot-com and telco bust.
Tags: investment; telco; AT & T
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DOA.COM: In the Great Dot-Com Meltdown of 2000-01, some Connecticut start-ups had a plan-they just didn't have a clue. How will the survivors learn from their mistakes?
Article talks about the rise and fall of dot-com companies in Connecticut. Companies based in Connecticut (which are mentioned in the article) include Priceline.com, Outpost.com, Carepackages.com, JobDirect.com, iBirthday.com, iMix.com, Jasperon.com.
Tags: dot-com; dot com; computer; website; e-commerce; Connecticut; priceline.com; outpost.com; carepackages.com; jobdirect.com; iBirthday.com; iMix.com; Jasperon.com; business; computer industry; online; online sales; companies; online companies
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In the Money: Colorado's New Wealth
The Rocky Mountain News' three-part series that looks at Colorado's new dot-com millionaires and the effect their presence has had in the state.
Tags: development; Denver; wealth; Colorado; millionaires; dot-com millionaires; technology boom; personal income
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The Deal Makers
An investigation by the Washington Post revealed that America Online "was using a series of unconventional transactions to sustain the appearance of breakneck growth in ad revenue" -- even after the Internet boom subsided and it merged with Time Warner. " Time Warner executives were "mesmerized by the hundreds of millions of dollars in online advertising pouring into AOL ... (and) even when the bubble popped and dot-coms collapsed, AOL continued to report record-breaking growth in ad revenue, reinforcing its image as the medium of the future and overwhelming any second thoughts from Time Warner shareholders and employees." What Time Warner didn't know was that, "among other things, AOL turned legal disputes into ad deals, converted long-term contracts into one-time balloon payments, shifted revenue from one division to another, bartered ads for computer equipment and sold ads on behalf of eBay while booking all the sales as its own... (The) stories immediately prompted two federal investigations of AOL Time Warner."
Tags: America Online; AOL; Time Warner; AOL Time Warner; Enron; advertising revenue; merger; balloon payments; contracts; Internet boom; dot-coms
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Taxpayers' dot-com gamble
The News Tribune investigates the government's risky investment in an Internet start-up. Findings included "mismanagement, extravagance, and deception involving a government agency that went out of its way to accomodate a hot, new Web-based company."
Tags: Internet; SafeHarbor; investment; governor; state government; Public Development Authority
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Sue Your Broker
Money examines the reasons behind the trend of increasing number of lawsuits against brokers and financial advisers. The story relates the trend to statistics showing that since March 2000 investors have lost $4 trillion in paper wealth. "In one corner are brokers who gave clients poor advice and made money at their expense; in another are investors who came down with their own get-rich madness," the magazine reports. The report profiles both naive investors and greedy brokers. It concludes that this is not "a black-and-white situation of victims and victimizers," but a tale of broken communication between investors and advisers.
Tags: Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association; National Association of Security Dealers; commissions; Wall Street; SEC; class-action suits; Internet; dot-coms; PaineWebber
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Dressed to kill
Business Week tells the story of how one of the dot-com companies, Critical Path, "wound up being accused of accounting irregularities." The article reveals that "greed, colliding personalities and a long-shot bet made with shareholder money ... derailed the promising company." Critical Path eventually became the target of an SEC probe, and shelled out $17 million to settle shareholder suits.
Tags: business; Internet; Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC); stocks and bonds; investments; investors; equity
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White-collar blues
Fortune reports on increasing job cuts in different industries. The story reveals that, in "the unemployemnt flu of 2001," many of the people losing their jobs are white-collar, college educated and upper middle class. Profiles of some of the new unemployed trendsetters, who lost their jobs with WorldCom, are featured in the article. It also includes layoff statistics for different sectors and big corporations, as well as advice to white-collar unemployed on how to cope with the change and to find new jobs.
Tags: Internet; dot-com; labor; free agency; WorldCom; economy; market; stocks and bonds; downsizing; management; retraining
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IPO to REPO: Here's One Industry In Silicon Valley That's Booming These Days
The Wall Street Journal reveals that "car repossessors score big by 'popping' the Porsches of fallen dot-commers." The story cites a private company's estimation that automotive repossessions have tripled in 2000, because many tech workers can no longer afford expensive cars. The reporter describes how repo men use a "few tricks for dealing with the young and still-affluent-at heart" in order to avoid traumatizing them.
Tags: jobs; technology; dot-coms; bankruptcy; cars; parking; lawyers; finance