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  • Don't discount AOL/CBS rumors yet

    A persistent rumor has been making the rounds that America Online Inc. wants to buy nothing less than the CBS Corp. No one in a position to know is saying anything on the matter -- at least...

    News items | April 16, 1999 12:00am PDT

  • Investors prove far too Excitable

    There are several ways to view the announced merger of Excite Inc. and @Home Corp., but here's the simplest: at 4 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, these two companies had a combined market value of $15.9...

    News items | January 20, 1999 12:00am PST

  • Analysis: eBay's hot -- in more ways than one

    From Beanie babies to assault rifles? That pretty much sums up the range of items for sale on the Web site of overnight Internet sensation eBay Inc., the zero-to-hero IPO that was selling for $18...

    News items | November 13, 1998 12:00am PST

  • The psychedelic trip of a Net stock

    Is a 70-employee flea market in cyberspace worth as much as Tiffany's and Saks combined? As of Tuesday it was. By the end of the week, San Jose, California-based eBay Inc. could be worth all that...

    News items | November 11, 1998 12:00am PST

  • Hollywood Entertainment's Reel desperation deal

    Talk about a desperation deal! That's one way to view last week's contorted and confusing takeover of Reel.com - a Web site that sells movie videos. The acquirer? Cash-strapped Hollywood...

    News items | August 5, 1998 12:00am PDT

  • Broadcast.com is streaming ... in red

    Isn't it about time someone came up with an Internet IPO for a company that is actually making money - even a little money - before the public is asked to invest in the deal? The question comes...

    News items | July 17, 1998 12:00am PDT

  • Seeking the source of Amazon.com's success

    Could there possibly be a logical reason for the seemingly inexplicable price surge in Amazon.com? One bit of conventional wisdom holds that the...

    News items | July 8, 1998 12:00am PDT

  • GeoCities, a Web IPO wonder?

    It's just a personal opinion, mind you, but I for one believe the day will come when white-shoe investment firms like Goldman Sachs & Co. will be very sorry they ever heard of the World Wide Web....

    News items | June 16, 1998 12:00am PDT

  • Banking on the Internet

    Can you make a buck as a savings bank in cyberspace? That's the question posed by a $152 million bet that Wall Street has riding on an Atlanta company going by the name of Atlanta Internet...

    News items | May 27, 1998 12:00am PDT

  • PointCast IPO a bargain?

    Last week PointCast Inc. -- the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Web company that invented "push programming" and was the talk of the industry two years ago --...

    News items | May 20, 1998 12:00am PDT

  • Bleak outlook for Shopping.com

    Six months after raising more than $11 million from public investors in a start-up stock offering, troubled Internet retailer Shopping.com filed a...

    News items | May 6, 1998 12:00am PDT

  • On the trail of Shopping.com sales

    OPINION: The Shopping.com saga took an unexpected turn Thursday when the Internet retailer's chief financial officer disclosed that fully 23 percent of all the company's revenues...

    News items | March 27, 1998 12:00am PST

  • It may be ?Yikes!' for Yahoo!

    Here's a quick quiz in investing common sense: Is the stock of even a superfast growing company that is less than three years old and has already...

    News items | December 29, 1997 12:00am PST

  • OTC market scrutinized; Net next?

    After years of doing little, the National Association of Securities Dealers at last looks ready to start cracking down on investor abuse taking place...

    News items | December 11, 1997 12:00am PST

  • If it worked for Amazon.com...

    When it comes time for an IPO, it seems the best thing a hopeful young Internet retailing company can have going for it is a big promise of future...

    News items | December 3, 1997 12:00am PST

  • How to stay even with the stock sharks

    Of the three companies that suffered the least declines in value during the market sell-off -- Amazon.com Inc., the online bookselling outfit; Netcom On-line Communication Services (the...

    News items | November 21, 1997 12:00am PST

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