• Kozmo.com was a venture-capital-funded online company that promised free one-hour delivery of "videos, games, DVDs, music, mags, books, food, basics &...
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    Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon (/ˈæməzɒn/, AM-ə-zon; UK also /ˈæməzən/, AM-ə-zən), is an American multinational technology company, engaged...
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    The dot-com bubble (or dot-com boom) was a stock market bubble that ballooned during the late-1990s and peaked on Friday, March 10, 2000. This period of...
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    PayPal (redirect from PayPal.com)
    payments system was launched in 1999. In March 2000, Confinity merged with X.com, an online financial services company founded in March 1999 by Elon Musk...
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  • Broadcast.com was an Internet radio company founded as AudioNet in September 1995 by Cameron Christopher Jaeb. Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban later led the...
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  • April 2000 on a half-hour special program that was broadcast on CBS. Kozmo.com: Founded by Joseph Park, it offered one-hour local delivery of several...
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    EBay (redirect from EBay.com)
    firm. The echobay.com domain name was already registered by Echo Bay Mines, a gold mining company, so Omidyar shortened it to eBay.com. In 1997, the company...
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  • The WorldCom scandal was a major accounting scandal that came into light in the summer of 2002 at WorldCom, the USA's second-largest long-distance telephone...
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    Boo.com was a short-lived British eCommerce business, founded in 1998 by Swedes Ernst Malmsten, Kajsa Leander and Patrik Hedelin, who were regarded as...
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  • Pets.com was a dot-com enterprise headquartered in San Francisco, U.S, that sold pet supplies to retail customers. The website was launched in November...
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  • donation-driven GospelCom ministry. In June 2009, Joseph Park was hired as president of BibleGateway.com. Park was co-founder and former CEO of Kozmo.com, which was...
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  • Yahoo (redirect from Www.yahoo.com)
    was renamed "Yahoo!" and became known as the Yahoo Directory. The "yahoo.com" domain was registered on January 18, 1995. The word "yahoo" is a backronym...
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  • lastminute.com is an online travel and leisure retailer. The company was founded by Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman in 1998 and was a part of the UK...
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    partnered with order takers such as the now-defunct Kozmo.com, which went defunct in the bursting of the dot-com bubble, as a way to expand the product line into...
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  • E-Dreams (category Dot-com bubble)
    documentary film directed by Wonsuk Chin portraying the rise and fall of Kozmo.com, an online convenience store that used bike messengers to deliver goods...
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  • Startup.com is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Jehane Noujaim and Chris Hegedus. D. A. Pennebaker served as a producer on the film. It follows...
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  • founded Kozmo.com in 1997. He was profiled in the documentary film e-Dreams. He was a co-founder of Askville, which was owned by Amazon.com and closed...
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  • service offered by a company called Confinity, which merged with X.com in 1999. Later, X.com was renamed PayPal and purchased by eBay in 2002. The original...
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  • became president and CEO of Reel.com, replacing founder Stuart Skorman. Four months later, Hollywood Video purchased Reel.com "in a deal valued at $100 million...
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    dispute by agreeing to pay a $40 million fine. "Leadership". microstrategy.com. MicroStrategy. 2013. Retrieved 22 February 2013. Jaffe, Harry (1 March 2000)...
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    announced O'Leary would take an ownership stake in the parent companies of FTX.com and FTX.US as part of his compensation for becoming a "spokesperson and ambassador"...
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    MCI Inc. (redirect from World Com)
    MCI, Inc. (formerly WorldCom and MCI WorldCom) was a telecommunications company. For a time, it was the second-largest long-distance telephone company...
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    Amazon.com.com CEO". U.S. News & World Report. Archived from the original on December 30, 2008. Retrieved November 25, 2008. "April 22: Amazon.com Founder...
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    Inktomi Interactive Intelligence Internet America iVillage iWon Kozmo.com lastminute.com The Learning Company Liquid Audio LookSmart Lycos MarchFirst MicroStrategy...
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    atrea.com. "Spanish Net IPO price raised - Nov. 12, 1999". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2022-09-03. "Lycos in $12.5B deal - May 16, 2000". money.cnn.com. Retrieved...
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  • Urbanfetch (category Dot-com bubble)
    identical to that of Kozmo.com, which led to a lawsuit from them. Apparently, Urbanfetch founder Ross Stevens had been approached to fund Kozmo but instead launched...
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  • Register.com is an American domain name registrar founded in 1994. The company was founded in 1994 as Forman Interactive Corp by brothers Peter and Richard...
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  • Lycos (redirect from Lycos.com)
    for Quote.com and RagingBull.com, was sold to FT Interactive Data Corporation in February 2006, while its online dating site, Matchmaker.com, was sold...
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    made it the largest corporate bankruptcy in U.S. history until the WorldCom scandal the following year. Many executives at Enron were indicted for a...
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  • accounting practices for energy company Enron and telecommunications company WorldCom were revealed amid the two high-profile bankruptcies. The scandals were a...
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