eWEEK EDITORS

Like the Nasdaq stock market, the dot-com landscape has been a wild and unpredictable ride during the past two years. One day, business-to-consumer sites are as hot as Poo-Chi, the robotic dog. The next day, business-to-business sites are all the rage, like Razor scooters. The fads online change about as quickly as those offline. The […]

Living the dream of many high-technology entrepreneurs, Philip Berber hit the big time and became a multimillionaire overnight when he sold his Austin, Texas, company, CyBerCorp. What makes Berber different is the path he has chosen to take with those fortunes. Instead of simply retiring in style and enjoying the good life that many only […]

Youre not likely to have seen them on the cover of a national magazine, but theyre out there, taking advantage of the relative quiet to make our networks — and the world those networks connect — better than they were. Among these unsung heroes is the high-tech leader in Austin, Texas, who organized fellow entrepreneurs […]

You have to be Imelda Marcos to supply all the shoes dropping in this market. Last week, Intel and Yahoo—two firms that actually make money—announced that they would miss first-quarter revenue projections by a long shot, and Yahoos CEO resigned. Loudcloud lowered the offering price on its much-awaited IPO. And within our own index, several […]

Think internet and you might envision San Jose, northern Virginia, the outskirts of Denver — just about any booming suburbia marked by horizons of office parks and dense sprinklings of Starbucks. Montana? Visions of broadband are probably not dancing through your head, but that hasnt mattered to U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns, a Republican who has […]

Cliff Sharples dot-com story doesnt exactly have a happy ending. After all, Garden.com, the online gardening retailer he founded in 1995 with wife, Lisa, and partner, Jamie ONeill, closed Dec. 1, a victim of the dot-com downturn that left many once-promising businesses without the capital needed to continue operations. But, at a time when numerous […]

When it comes to talking about internet retailing, Donna Iucolanos got some mouth on her. During the heyday of the business-to-consumer e-tailers, Iucolano spent six years in the trenches, transforming 1-800-Flowers from a telemarketing floral company into a leading online supplier of flowers, plants and gifts. As she worked her way up from marketing coordinator […]

When Allan Frank, Ted Fernandez and David Dungan left their Big 5 accounting firm in 1996 to start an e-business services firm, their focus wasnt on building artsy Web pages. Instead, the three high-level executives were intent on building a business. Now, an IPO, several acquisitions and 1,600 employees later, Answerthink is betting on its […]

For any e-business, an important part of getting a handle on when and where to collect and remit sales taxes on online sales is determining the states in which it has nexus, or a physical presence. Answering that question can be tricky, though. For one thing, each state defines nexus differently. For another, as e-business […]

Yet More Ads to Bombard Surfers Web surfers already tired of ads appearing everywhere online had better brace for an even bigger marketing tsunami. By 2005, the average online user will receive 950 marketing messages a day, compared with a daily hit of 610 this year, according to data released by Jupiter Media Metrix Inc., […]