From Pets.com to Amazon, 7 companies that died in the dot-com bubble — and 4 that survived
The arrival of the internet in the mid-1990s set off an investment boom as techies and entrepreneurs tried to work out what the “World Wide Web” could do — and how to make it turn a profit. Investors, afraid of missing out on a technological revolution, were willing to provide almost unlimited capital.Read more...


The arrival of the internet in the mid-1990s set off an investment boom as techies and entrepreneurs tried to work out what the “World Wide Web” could do — and how to make it turn a profit. Investors, afraid of missing out on a technological revolution, were willing to provide almost unlimited capital.