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Lucky Few Still Get Bucks

The wacky days of unlimited dot-com financing are over, but some Internet retailers and start-ups are — surprise — still attracting investors.Take the case...

Fast Facts Section B: February 5, 2001

CarOrder RemodelsOnline car seller CarOrder is taking a radical step to revive its flagging fortunes. The Austin, Texas, company has purchased two auto dealerships...

Privacy Advocates Not Suite on Nortel

Analysts saluted, but privacy advocates squawked when Nortel Networks introduced a suite of smart switches last week designed to tap into users Web surfing...

Small Hosters Reach For Managed Holy Grail

Now that Web hosting has landed among the most strategic business units at giants such as WorldCom, the best minds in the companies are...

Hilary Rosen

Hilary Rosen, head of the Powerful Trade Organization for the $15 billion recording industry, is full of contrasts: She can be funny and charming,...

Big Leaps, Not Baby Steps

Im suspicious of incremental strategies. they remind me of the visionary man-ape in "2001: A Space Odyssey," whose plan for reaching the moon began...

Dot-com Deaths Are Not Over

It has become a daily ritual in Silicon Valley to listen for news of the power crisis. Those of us who live here are...

Andreas Schmidt

At 39, Andreas Schmidt seems young to be a powerful media executive, but perhaps its his youth that enabled him to see opportunity in...

Ron Sommer

Maybe it is his mathematical logic. Maybe its his $100 billion acquisition war chest: Deutsche Telekoms Ron Sommer is irresistible to the U.S. Internet...

Shouting At The Net

Since browsing the wireless web is complicated at best, wireless providers have been looking to voice portals to provide a friendlier face.According to voice...