Internet Business

A business deal with a friend went bad, and he never paid me back
What will be the cost of renewing this friendship?
I could have had celebrity sex -- but I stuck to my principles
I fell hard for a high-level business leader -- until she abruptly turned off the charm.
The media titans still don't get it
Corporate America lost billions on the Net. That doesn't mean the medium has no value -- but the moguls remain clueless about where it lies.
Eclipse of an urban dot-com dream
At first Urban Box Office Network seemed like Motown meets Downtown fabulous. But then things went wrong.
Dot-combusted
What I learned from the revolution -- and why I may not head back into battle.
"Don't worry, be delirious"
Silicon Alley vets take an upbeat attitude toward the dot-com crash. Are they nuts, or what?
There goes the neighborhood
Are companies like GeoCities truly "building communities" -- or just plastering ads on incomplete, out-of-date Web pages?
You're_a_Loser.com
Behind (and beneath) every Internet gazillionaire is an army of downtrodden "NetSlaves."
Reading, writing, quarterly results
In Silicon Valley, venture capital has become a required subject -- even for fourth graders.
Jupiter shoots for the moon
The market research firm has always said the Net would be big. Now it's big enough to launch Jupiter on a bid to go public.
The great Web "brain drain"
Is the Net sucking up corporate America's best and brightest -- or just its greediest?
Pointcast for pennies
The once-proud king of the push market sells for a rock-bottom price.
Why Bill Gates still doesn't get the Net
While his new book "Business @ the Speed of Thought" peddles PCs as the ultimate corporate intelligence system, the industry is mutating right under his nose.
Let's Get This Straight: Amazon vs. the ants
Sure, David can beat Goliath on the Web -- if he's got a New York Times columnist in his corner.
Let's Get This Straight: Personal information mismanagement
Why hasn't the software industry given us more tools to get our lives in order?
Let's Get This Straight: Reach for the hits
Why is it so hard to find a valid yardstick for measuring Web traffic?
Let's Get This Straight: A corporate game of Internet Monopoly
@Home's purchase of Excite poses a new challenge to AOL and leaves Microsoft on the sidelines -- for now.
Let's Get This Straight: The birth of an Internet network?
Block those pundits: AOL-Netscape isn't like an NBC of the Web -- and can't be.
Rags for Net richies
Rags for Net richies: By Janelle Brown. A slew of new magazines, like the Industry Standard and Business 2.0, are trying to snag the tech-business elite -- but only the fittest will survive
Do loose lips sink chips?
Nondisclosure agreements are a way of life in Silicon Valley -- where everyone calls them "meaningless" but signs them anyway.
Let's Get This Straight: Any portal in a storm
All-in-one Web sites are sparking a corporate mating frenzy. Are they really worth the billions?
Money for nothing
Burn Rate' captivatingly portrays a Net industry built on a con game -- but its author is playing, too. Review of Michael Wolff's 'Burn Rate.'

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