Word: dotcom
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...article "Box Score: Who's Rich Now?" we listed people who sold stock before the April dotcom market debacle [BUSINESS, May 1]. We incorrectly listed Julian A. Brodsky, a director of Internet Capital Group, as selling $327 million worth of indirectly held company shares. In fact, the shares were owned by Comcast ICG, a subsidiary of Comcast Corp., of which Brodsky is vice chairman, and all the proceeds of the sale went to Comcast, not to Brodsky himself...
...world does not erase (and may in fact intensify) the differences between us. Corporate bodies stress connectedness, borderless economies, all the wired communities that make up our worldwide webs; those in Chechnya, Kosovo or Rwanda remind us of much older forces. And even as America exports its dotcom optimism around the world, many other countries export their primal animosities to America. Get in a cab near the Capitol, say, or the World Trade Center and ask the wrong question, and you are likely to hear a tirade against the Amhara or the Tigreans, Indians or Pakistanis. If all the world...
...Park anymore, just 3Com Park, and now there's a PacBell Park to match. The venerable Boston Garden was replaced not too long ago by the Fleet Center: a city erased, its role played by a bank. A little town in the Pacific Northwest just renamed itself after a dotcom company in return for a generous donation. I won't mention the name here, since I figure advertising should be paid for. That's when advertising has gone too far: when it's become something we are, rather than something...
TAXING THE INTERNET On one side are state officials, who fear that tax-free e-commerce will erode sales-tax receipts. On the other side are dotcoms and antitax partisans, who argue that a sales tax would stifle e-commerce. The issue poses a dilemma for small businesses: though reflexively antitax, many believe dotcoms are reaping an unfair price advantage from the tax-free Web. Both Gore and Bush favor extending the moratorium but stop there. How tough is this issue? A blue-ribbon panel at press time voted 10-8 not to tax the Internet. Their recommendation has been...
...would be easy to dismiss The Leap as just another self-satisfied saga of risking it all on a dotcom dream. Don't. Ashbrook's tale of how he went from disillusioned newspaperman to co-founder of the home-design empire HomePortfolio.com serves up heavy doses of self-examination and occasional melodrama ("Maybe we don't get to choose our madness"). But it is saved by self-deprecating humor and gut-wrenching suspense (Will the money run out? Will his wife?). By the end, you're praying for this guy to make...