Word: dotcom
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...classical-music whiz kids are as common as laid-off dotcom executives, but Hilary Hahn is no robotic virtuoso. Her tone is lean and sweet, her interpretations smart and unshowy; even the hardest-boiled prodigy-hating critics in the business go all mushy when she plays Bach, Beethoven, Barber and Bernstein. Wait, there's more. She has lovely, wide-set eyes and the figure of a ballerina. And she writes the liner notes for her CDs, as well as an online journal, hilaryhahn.com illustrated with photos that she takes herself. Next to her, even Haley Joel Osment looks like...
...postings on the Usenet discussion group network, plus a five-language webpage translation service and a search facility for more than 150 million images. The San Francisco company says it plans to float a share offering before the end of the year, though with a relatively modest, post-dotcom-shakeout price tag of $250 million...
...reverse stock split. In other words, for every 25 shares you owned before the split, you'd now only own one. The resulting drought should leave Webvan standing $2 tall. Above water, but at what cost? The one major precedent for a reverse stock split in the dotcom world is not encouraging. Now-defunct drugstore PlanetRx.com tried a 1 to 8 swap last November, which kept the angry hounds of NASDAQ at bay for just two months. It went into liquidation last March...
...keep operating. Few analysts expect them to get it. Sand Hill Road - world capital of venture capitalists - is just a short drive down route 101 from Webvan, but the VCs are unlikely to open their doors again to a company that has already burned through $480 million; a dotcom that planned to serve 23 markets by now but is mired in just seven. Ironically, plenty of VCs are Webvan customers (San Francisco and Silicon Valley being one of the most lucrative arenas for a firm that delivers groceries to the horribly busy). But they're also a sanguine...
Sure, we know the dotcom bubble burst, but Hollywood studios are spending megabucks marketing elaborate tie-in websites. We rate the sites for you--and by the way, when we asked the official A.I. site's "chatbot" whether it liked the movie, the chatbot replied, "No, I didn't." Paging reprogramming...