Monthly Archives: February 2001
Chowing on Leftovers
With the economic downturn, so-called "Vulture capitalists" are snapping up Internet companies for pennies on the dollar. Plurimi, a San Francisco company that makes...
The Buzz: Ferbruary 5, 2001
Fingerprinting May Aid VotersAmong the many issues swirling around the latest presidential election were questions about the absentee voting of military personnel from Florida.Global...
Februarys Turn
The January effect was a beautiful thing for the tech sector. The Nasdaq composite index surged more than 12 percent. Investors even found a...
Patrick Nettles
As the Starship Ciena rocketed from tech supernova to tech black hole and back again over the past four years, Patrick Nettles sat in...
USinternetworking: Surviving the Changes
Like a poster child for a developmentally disabled industry, USinternetworking is hoping for a cure.Since reporting a lackluster performance in Q3 of last year,...
Harvey Seegers
Just as traditional brick-and-mortar giants like Wal-Mart Stores, Kmart and Target overtook dot-com e-tailers, business-to-business companies have to watch what their own Old Economy...
Wall Street Tug-of-War
Mixed earnings reports pulled e-commerce integrator stocks in opposite directions last week, leaving our index with a mere boost of 0.6 percent. For the...
Privacy Policies Tighten Up
With new federal privacy regulations coming on faster than a bad head cold, officials at WellMed Inc. late last year asked legal advisers for...
Operator No. 9: February 5, 2001
Opportunity Knocks -- Be Afraid!Its not just we Californians who are feeling the pain of living in a wired economy these days. Nestled among...
Keep It Together
The breakup of AT&T could be headed for a brick wall, as institutional investors and union leaders mount counterattacks on the plans and power...