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Dot-Coms Begin to Blossom in India

Amol Sharma, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 11, 2011 at 4:10 pm PT

India, home to a legion of talented software engineers, has had a surprisingly undeveloped Internet economy: The nation has the lowest Internet penetration rate among major emerging markets and very little online commerce. Now, that’s beginning to change.

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Bubble Trouble? I Don't Think So

Ben Horowitz, Co-founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz in News on March 23, 2011 at 4:31 pm PT

Lately, everybody seems to be talking about a new technology bubble. Many very smart CEOs, VCs, reporters, and analysts can’t seem to stop worrying about the second coming of the dot com bust. Are the prognosticators correct? Will we head mercilessly into another crash? I don’t think so.

The Bay Citizen's Jon Weber–Editor of Web 1.0–Talks About Journalism 2.0

Kara Swisher in News on September 20, 2010 at 6:19 am PT

It’s been less than a year since the former top editor of the Industry Standard–the once high-flying (and then not so much) magazine of the Web 1.0 era–Jon Weber got back to the Bay Area from his stint away in Montana. His latest job–editor in chief of the Bay Area News Project, now known as the Bay Citizen, a wealthy-donor-backed, nonprofit endeavor online to focus on local news coverage, even as mainstream media outlets founder. BoomTown checks in on how it’s all going.

Tonight the Lights Go Down on Netscape's Silicon Valley HQ

Kara Swisher in News on August 26, 2010 at 12:04 pm PT

With a flick of the switch today at 5 pm PT, a critical chapter in Silicon Valley will finally go dark. That’s when AOL officially moves out of the legendary HQ buildings of Netscape Communications in Mountain View, Calif.–along Ellis Street and East Middlefield Road–to new, snappier digs it is subleasing from Google in Palo Alto on Page Mill Road. Sigh–BoomTown hates change.

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The Case for the Fat Start-Up

Ben Horowitz, Co-founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz in News on March 17, 2010 at 12:00 pm PT

Much has been written and said about the current economic downturn and the resulting lessons on how to run high-technology companies. Quite famously, Sequoia Capital, the premier venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, held a mandatory all-CEO meeting in fall 2008 during which it advised them to “Cut spending. Cut fat. Preserve capital.”

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The Group-Buying Gang Gets Bigger

Nick Wingfield, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 16, 2010 at 3:00 pm PT

An e-commerce idea that seemed to die with the dot-com bust a decade ago is taking another step toward a comeback. Kashless, a Seattle start-up, on Tuesday started a Web site called Tippr.com to resurrect the concept of harnessing the buying power of groups of online shoppers to get discounts on everything from restaurant vouchers to television sets to spa trips.

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Super Bowl Lures HomeAway, 10 Years After Dot-Com Debacle

Zoran Basich, Editor, Dow Jones VentureWire in News on January 20, 2010 at 9:37 am PT

They called it the Dot-Com Super Bowl. For one brief cultural moment, little-known start-ups, often based on business plans flimsier than a Brett Favre retirement announcement but inexplicably flush with venture capital, occupied the most valuable advertising space in the history of the world.

Spare Change for Amazon Shares?

John Paczkowski in News on October 23, 2009 at 2:59 pm PT

$118.49. That’s the price at which Amazon shares closed Friday, a day after the company reported a 69 percent jump in third-quarter profit and a 28 percent gain in revenue. It was a new 52-week high and the stock’s best since December 1999, when it hit $106.68. Which is saying something. Because as you might recall, in 1999, Nasdaq was soaring on the back of the dot-com bubble to levels never before seen.

Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller Out. Here’s the Internal Memo.

Peter Kafka in Media on July 15, 2009 at 8:26 pm PT

Forbes.com CEO Jim Spanfeller, who has run one of the Web’s biggest finance sites for the last nine years, is leaving the company at the end of the summer. No replacement has been named. Spanfeller’s departure comes amid a flurry of bad news for finance publications.