Word: dotcomers
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...Dotcom-related price spurts in real estate aren't confined to the tech-heavy Bay Area. The cities with the highest rates of growth when it comes to technology companies--places like Phoenix, Ariz.; Denver; Boston; Portland, Ore.; Fort Worth and Austin, Texas--also happen to be the cities with the fastest-rising house prices. "This is no coincidence," says Ross DeVol, an economist at the Milken Institute in Los Angeles, a nonprofit think tank. "The indirect effect of [dotcoms'] being there is that landlords jack up the rates on everyone else. It's out of control...
Antigentrification anger is a hallowed tradition in the San Francisco Mission, an area that has fought for years to preserve its Latino identity. But now violent calls to arms are plastered on lampposts across the city: one unattributed sign reads simply, F___ YOU AND THE DOTCOM YOU RODE IN ON. Marci Riseman, one of the owners of the Dancers' Group space, says she has started to receive threatening e-mails: "Some were saying, 'I know where you live, and I'm watching...
...colleague about how to help businesses take advantage of the Internet. Both men suddenly realized no one was monitoring copyright violations on the Net and that as a result corporations were losing millions of dollars in revenue. That led them to the concept for Cyveillance, a sort of dotcom Web sleuth founded in 1997, which uses its proprietary NetSapien Technology to scour the Net for misuse of brand names, copyright infringements and clues as to what impact Web activity is having on a corporation's business. Some Cyveillance findings: Disney and Barbie are among the Top 10 brand names most...
SHANNON HENRY, 30 Known as the dotcom diva, Shannon Henry has a reputation as the leading technology writer in Washington. She joined the Washington Post two years ago as a business writer after working for the Christian Science Monitor and the American Banker. Her Post columns, more than 200 of them since September 1998, cover everyone and everything from Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen to BlackBerrys (a new model of handheld e-mail device). Other subjects have included woman investors, venture-capital funding, the political battle over high-tech immigration policy, e-commerce, wiring at the Pentagon and spreading...
...Utah Jazz home game, where everyone in the stands is white and most of the performers are black. I left a message for Powell asking whether he might have been used as just another prop in this diversity derby. (Did I mention the blind mountain climber and the Hispanic dotcom mogul...