Word: dotcom
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...China: Dotcom Comeback...
...there are few cheerleaders left to hail the good news. The army of brokerage analysts that once followed the chortals' every move has been routed. "I'm sorry," laments a p.r. person at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, "but we don't have any more Internet-sector analysts." Chastened dotcom CEOs are stressing humility. Sina's CEO Daniel Mao says the rally is "the beginning of a healthy comeback?but we still have a long way to go." Indeed, despite their successes, these remain tiny companies, each with annual revenues well under $50 million (compared with Yahoo's nearly...
Comdex, the annual computer-related geekfest in Las Vegas, may be going the way of the dotcom bubble. Crowds are dwindling, and those who did show had to look harder to find the cool gadgets. But the gadgets were there. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates unveiled Smart Personal Object Technology, which allows refrigerator magnets, travel clocks and other tiny devices to update you on news, sports and weather via a wireless Internet chip. Gates is also pushing Smart Displays--thin, $1,000 computer screens you can take with you around the house and write notes on, as you would with...
...cheat in whom he somewhat mysteriously detects good stuff. The conventions of the genre usually dictate that the boy will ultimately reform. The considerable originality of The Emperor's Club (directed by Michael Hoffman) lies in the fact that the kid gets worse, not better, going on to sleazy dotcom millions and, of course, politics. This leaves the prissily played Hundert sadder and wiser. But it still may leave viewers emotionally disconnected from this distinctly unchipper Mr. Chips. --By Richard Schickel...
Enron. Arthur Andersen. Dynegy. ImClone. Global Crossing. A lot hashappened in the business world since we last checked in with Dilbert. The beleaguered, bespectacled office worker was oppressed during the downsizing era. He "was feeling his oats a little bit" during the dotcom boom and "became a little more insolent and sarcastic at work," in the words of his creator, Scott Adams. Now, says Adams, Dilbert has "reached a depth of cynicism." That cynicism is on full display in the first new Dilbert book to appear in four years: Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel, about to be published...