Word: dot
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ruling against Microsoft Monday afternoon. But as the market rebounded in the second half of trading Tuesday, it became more and more clear that the long-inflated NASDAQ may simply be approaching normalcy, with profitable firms such as Cisco and Intel bouncing back to respectable numbers while overinflated "dot-coms" stayed in the gutter...
...Code Rush follows doughnut-gobbling Netscape coders as they scramble to produce a new version of their Web browser and keep their company from being trampled by Microsoft. This no-frills hour is a valuable look at the hamster wheel of exhilarating and life-sucking work that powers the dot-com wealth generator...
Indian-Americans were once viewed as the people who did the jobs nobody wanted; now they're just as likely to be the high flyers with the dot-com dream jobs. Not only that, it's suddenly no longer a surprise to find Indians in the pantheon of (thinking) America's celebrities. From publisher Sonny Mehta and McKinsey & Co. managing director Rajat Gupta to alternative health guru Deepak Chopra and Academy Award-nominated director M. Night Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense"), the influence of Indian immigrants over American society is growing, not least because tens of millions of Americans make daily...
...become the talk of Madison Avenue, not to mention Main Street. And this year, as Target nears the opening of its 1,000th store, Graves has been joined by the doyen of design, Philippe Starck, another Alessi regular, and Target's hometown hipsters, the young design team Blu Dot. Says Dziersk: "This is the principle that began with the Bauhaus: everyone should have access to beautiful things...
...long can the holiday last? The 19-member Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce is scheduled to issue recommendations to Congress this week. Despite the fact that a majority of commission members are reportedly in favor of leveling the playing field between bricks-and-mortar businesses and Internet dot-com stores, they're not expected to suggest repeal of the federal tax freeze anytime soon. The problem is no one agrees on how sales taxes, usually levied by states, could be set and collected, or by whom...