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Feeling stifled by their corporate masters, Hawkins and Dubinsky left in 1998 to found a rival handheld-device maker, Handspring. After its IPO in 2000, the pair's stake was worth more than $1 billion. Palm, meanwhile, had been spun off three months earlier and was freestanding again. But the handheld market crested in 2001, when 13.3 million Palmlike devices shipped, and both firms now faced new competition from Microsoft's Pocket PC platform...
...says. "In January, it could be improper destruction of evidence." Quattrone replied, "I strongly advise you to follow these procedures." Days earlier, company lawyers had told him CSFB had been issued a subpoena. His lawyer, John Keker, says Quattrone is innocent. CSFB, which paid $100 million to settle the ipo charges, declined to comment. Quattrone resigned in March...
Forces coalesced to create the greatest bubble in history. Valuations, earnings and common sense were sacrificed on the altar of instant IPO riches. If Netscape worked, the next 100 Netlike deals could work, and the next 200, because the online economy would have to supplant the off-line economy. Dotcom alchemy had begun. Trillions of dollars in losses later, we now know what hit us: a mania that eventually destroyed the bull market itself. The banker perpetrators are now being pursued by the authorities, the analyst anointers held in low esteem...
...abundance of eventful dates to revisit, the turn of the 21st century gives us plenty of candidates too. The run-up to the millennium was characterized by one of the frothiest stock-market surges of all time, kicked off on Aug. 9, 1995, when the initial public offering (IPO) of stock in the Internet-browser maker Netscape rocketed from an expected initial price of $12 to an opening trade of $71. Hundreds of IPOs later, on March 10, 2000, the NASDAQ index hit the all-time high of 5132.52, from which it would fall 62% in just two years...
...seen for what she was: yet another unknown actress trying to make a splash. While the show is a celebration of all that Versace was, it is also a reminder of what the house no longer is. When Gianni was alive, the company's sales were healthy and an IPO was in the works. Now the firm is looking for outside investors, and financiers who have seen the books tell Time the numbers are bleak. Part of the reason for Versace's troubled fortunes can be seen in the last room of the show. Dresses by Versace's current designer...