Word: shakeout
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...pouring the way champagne once did in first class. United is leading the way down, losing $15 million a day and warning last month it would "perish" without a cash infusion. Even with the government's $15 billion post-Sept. 11 bailout, industry watchers are predicting a shakeout that could ground some big carriers permanently. "It's a horrible picture," says ABN AMRO airline analyst Ray Neidl. "And the fourth quarter will be uglier than the third...
...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...
Wall Street did exactly what it's supposed to do: throw billions of dollars at a big new idea, in this case the Internet. That funding gave everyone with a business plan the ability to test it. Now we're finding out which plans work best. This shakeout was as unavoidable as it is brutal--and the reason high-risk investing is best left to those who can afford to lose. The problem is that people who couldn't afford to lose gambled anyway...
...those strategies have a fantasy feel--for $65 million, you too can be a movie mogul and rub shoulders with the stars. But others are based on long-term plans and objectives backed by years of experience at home. How well are the newcomers likely to do? The inevitable shakeout has begun with EM.TV, and more casualties are bound to follow--events the suits in Hollywood will be watching as closely as the Oscar nominations...
That kind of niche strategy probably won't last long. There are simply too many me-too small-business B2B exchanges, and a shakeout is almost a foregone conclusion. Shore expects that, before long, a few megasites will probably emerge, each offering a soup-to-nuts array of services and products, including office pens and paper and 401(k) planning. Traditional financial players that work with small businesses, like Intuit or Merrill Lynch, are likely to swoop in and buy or partner with these megasites, adding their expertise and long-established relationships to the equation. "You want...