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...part by riding his daughter's image as far as it will go. Now 16, Aimee graces Aimster's home page in a split evening dress, Britney Spears hairdo and a camera-melting pout, under the slogan "Can't Touch This!" She has become a figure of worship in dotcom offices. It's hard to tell exactly how much her presence has affected downloads, but more than 4.4 million people now use Aimster, and 200,000 more join every week...
Maha Hermes spends a lot of time thinking about her future these days. A casualty of another dotcom debacle, the 33-year-old event planner lost her job last month. She was disappointed, of course, and worried about when she would find another position. But among her first concerns was figuring out what to do with her retirement savings. She has plenty of company: more than 400,000 workers have been fired since the beginning of January, and the layoffs keep piling...
Maha Hermes spends a lot of time thinking about her future these days. A casualty of another dotcom debacle, the 33-year-old event planner lost her job last month. She was disappointed, of course, and worried about when she would find another position. But among her first concerns was figuring out what to do with her retirement savings. She has plenty of company: more than 400,000 workers have been fired since the beginning of January, and the layoffs keep piling...
...career path that captures the essence of post-bubble Japan, it is "failed real estate speculator." During the '80s and early '90s, real estate speculation had been the frothy center of Japan's double-espresso economy, with developers and brokers becoming that era's version of the more recent dotcom billionaires. Speculators like Joji Obara were the heroes of Japan's go-go era, driving their Bentleys and Rolls Royces, living in their mansions, dating their exotic blond girlfriends. This was the period, remember, when Japan was going to take over the world. Men like Joji Obara cast themselves...
...spawned its own U.S. Senator (Maria Cantwell, the famous 50th Democrat and a former Real Jukebox product manager). All I'd have to do was look hard enough among the foosball tables and Odwalla juice fridges of this former cannery building. The place looked like someone had taken a dotcom start-up and stretched the ceiling five times...