WEB sites keep companies together after bombing.
Patent on Customer Service Software.
Yahoo reports $48 million loss, July 2001.
WEBVAN goes bankrupt, unable to make selling groceries over the Internet a viable business.
Artificial Intelligence for the new Millenium.
Advertising Moves to Infiltrate Instant Messaging.
Talks Between Microsoft and AOL-Time/Warner Break Down Over Competing Strategies.
Market Research Moves from Mall to the Net.
Technology Incubator to Focus on India.
Open Source Movement Advances, Microsoft Fights Back. Microsoft offers guidance to reporters.
AOL and Legend form Joint Venture in China.
Microsoft and AOL Negotiate Links.
Paid Placement is Catching On in WEB Search.
Returns pose problems for online merchants.
Is Lucent a "Fixer-Upper" or a Money Pit?
McDonald's Expanding Tests of Cashless Payments without Credit Cards.
City known for silk (Suzhou) becoming Center of High Technology in China.
Has the Web's Audience Peaked?
E-Commerce: Traffic does not always equal profit.
What bad advice have e-consultants given to businesses?
Most free services closing on Internet.
I.B.M. announces profits up 15% for first quarter 2001.
Apple returns to profitibility based on sales of new portable computer.
Words and Pictures Combined to form new "Infoimaging" industry.
Responsibility of banks for bringing defective doc.com's to public offring status.
Use of email within a corporation to communicate social status.
Use of "cookies" for advertising held to be legal.
Companies use help desk personnel in India who pretend to be in the USA.
Technology Stock Companies Discuss Plans for Dealing with Stock Plunge.
Disappointing Profits at Yahoo.
Market Plunges in Sell-Off Led by Technology Stocks.
Big Companies Reconsider WEB strategies.
Is Amazon.com in trouble?
WEB sites that bash specific companies.
Disgruntled consumers vent over net.
Fifteen year old stock market manipulator arrested by FEC.
Can Amazon patent "one click" shopping?
Can the Honor System work in WEB commerce?
First unionization vote at a dot.com.
Online shopping loses its lustre for many consumers.
Computers better at bidding than humans?
Bringing Competition Policy into the Age of the Internet.
Issues of WEB Site Design in E-Commerce.
Yahoo warns of sharp drop in earnings.
Working for Microsoft is More Attractive as Smaller Entrepreneurial Companies Lose Their Lustre.
The Real Foundation of the Software World: Behind-the-Scenes Programmers Are Bricklayers of Internet Economy
Is venture capital underfinancing the Internet: the greatest revolution in the history of the world?
Rings of shill bidders in internet auctions.
Internet Transforming Japanese Economy.
Effects of the Internet in a very poor third world community.
New York Times section on e-commerce. Universities pile on e-commerce courses.
For the Well Connected, All the World's an Office.
A new approach to building internet companies: substance, not quick profits.
Microsoft's strategies for the Internet Age.
IBM adopts Linux operating system.
Healtheon/WebMD tries to move toward profitibility.
Web Moguls Return to India.
Internet makes the construction industry more efficient through instant shared blueprints.
Computers are doing initial job screening "interviews."
IBM to use Linux software.
Prescription Drug sales over the Internet.
The Internet as the First Global Colony.
Outlook 2000: The NY Times' Special Section on the Economy. Featuring, The Economy Transformed Bit by Bit by Steve Lohr.
Computer Capitalism in India
Patents on the WEB: many companies are pantenting business procedures as well as physical or software technologies.
"Internet Mania" rages as new stock goes up over 700% in one day despite no fundamentals.
Microsoft's plans to market its office software as an online service rather than a program mounted on your computer.
The life of Online Pioneers: CEO's of "dot-com" companies: a life of "Speed. Sleep. Greed. Recruiting. Role models like Thomas Edison and Ayn Rand. Losing money, yet turning away capital. New-found wealth and an ensuing change in lifestyle -- or not. Another kind of "Online Pioneer" is the "day-trader", a person who takes advantage of online stock trading to buy and sell hoping to profit from daily fluctuations in the market. It is a lifestyle a lot like being a gambler. A long Sunday Magazine article.
Recruiters are desperate to recruit software engineers.
A new Internet Appliance for those not needing full computer capability.
Land's End Live is a new service for Internet shoppers. How would you like a Webmind instead of a live person to talk to?
Companies competing to introduce "electronic paper."
A chilly reception for "Digital Wallets" - is Amazon.com trying to dominate online sales with its "one-click" mechanism?
Problems buying groceries online.
Rules for online resumes.
A review of The New New Thing, a new book about Jim Clark, the found of Silicon Graphics, Netscape and Healthion. You can also read the first chapter online, as well as a story "The Search Engine, from the Times Magazine.
Owens Corning sues over anonymous posting on Yahoo by someone purporting to be the company's chairman.
Coca-Cola is wiring its machines to raise prices during heat waves. This suggests many possibilities for "smart pricing" based on Internet data.
Excite@Home buys BlueMountain for up to a billion dollars, even though it has almost no revenue.
Is the Internet economy a Ponzi game? (a Ponzi game is an investment scheme which pays off old investors with money from new investors mostly recruited by the old ones. These schemes collapse when the pool of "greater fools" is inevitably exhausted by the exponential growth needed to keep the scheme going. Internet IPO's are not based on this logic, but this essay suggests something analogous is going on).
Amazon.com sues Barnes&Noble.com over patent infringement on "one-click" ordering.
Internet Skills a Must for Corporate Jobs Today.
A humorous op-ed essay on the day when Amazon.com upset the markets by making a profit.
Palm computer reaches an accord with Nokia and others on a defacto standard for wireless Internet connections.
The economics of free services on the Internet.
Article about innovation and capitalism.
Microsoft binds office technology more closely to Internet. Office 2000 review.
Common language for transactions.
Internet power shift, people avoiding middlemen. - a book review.
Web slippery with Snake Oil.
The Economist on the Internet's impact on business.
A story on the Venture Capital business.
Doctors prescribing on the WEB.
Long story on AOL's plans to maintain hegemony over the Internet market. Backup at RU. AOL's alliance with Dr. Koop.
Not everybody is getting rich on IPO's.
A story on grocery delivery in the Bay area, 21 hours later...
State Regulators Concerned about Day Trading.
Balancing the Free Flow of Data and Profits
Smart ATM's which recognize your face.
Sun planning to move technology from PC's to WEB.
Measuring the performance of online retailers.
Richard Li biographical story from Wired.
Digital Brain Drain.
The Roaring Zeroes, futurists on the next decade in Wired
Use of customer reviews, site loses control, non-hierarchial.
Generating creative advertising slogans with a computer.
Free net access without ads.
Paradox of big organizations triumphing in the Internet Age.
Times section on e-commerce.
Amazon.com becoming a general bazaar.
Hackers. HacK, CouNterHaCk
Charity Begins in the Home PC.
Online brokerages in advertising battle.
High tech phoenix in the Lehigh Valley.
Jim Clark story of net entrepreneur.
Amazon.com in ecommerce. at RU.
Nurturing small business' WEB aspirations.
Software key to Apple Turnaround.
Washington DC region as a high-tech economy, surpassing government as an employer.
Self-destructing email to keep corporate documents from being available too long.
Students Search Web for First Real-World Jobs.
The net's real business in .com to .com.
Computer Age Gains Respect of Economists