Word: dotcom
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...volume of M&A deals in the U.S. alone surged to $1.49 trillion in 2006--a level not seen since the tech boom in the late 1990s, when annual activity topped the $1.5 trillion mark just prior to the dotcom crash, according to market-research group Dealogic. And it's only halftime. Through early July, M&A volume totaled $1.17 trillion, up from $761.5 billion during the same period a year ago, the first time that M&A volume has topped the $1 trillion mark in the first six months of a year. Private equity accounted for about...
...Many analysts believe China's A-share market-stocks priced in renminbi that are available almost exclusively to mainland investors-is experiencing a classic bubble and is destined to crash. Certainly it isn't hard to find evidence to support this conclusion. The 1990s U.S. technology and dotcom bubble saw an explosion of IPOs that peaked in 1999, when companies raised $63.1 billion (still a U.S. record). The bubble burst the following year. China's shares, which now trade on average at about 45 times next year's earnings estimates, are definitely expensive. But there are differences between China...
During the dotcom crash, few Web banks survived, but ING Direct persevered. "When we were making all those big investments without too much return, I had to answer a lot of questions," says Michel Tilmant, who chairs the executive board of parent company ING in Amsterdam. But ING was committed to Kuhlmann and the ING Direct vision and spent the money to continue...
There's a porous nature, too, to the company's power structure. Swapping ideas, stepping in, hanging out are at the root of what has to be called the Pixar culture. The studio has working methods more in common with the dotcom companies in nearby Silicon Valley than with the movie industry down in Los Angeles. For a start, everyone who works there, from the executives to the cooks at Luxo Cafe (try the excellent sushi), is encouraged to take a filmmaking class and make a short film. This is part of Pixar president Ed Catmull's belief in "lifelong...
...France is like an old lady. It is paralyzed by the fear of what it could lose." Jacques Deguest puts it even more bluntly. He's a friend of Cellot's who moved to Tokyo in 2001 after a web-hosting company he started in France collapsed in the dotcom crash. It was a bitter experience, and he says he has no intention of ever returning. "France is like a restaurant where the food is fantastic, the best of everything, but the comfort and the service are zero, zero, zero - and the bill is exorbitant," says Deguest, 37. "I love...