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Dot Con: How Infospace Took Investors For A Ride

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the easy-money dept.

Jeff writes "On the subject of the dot com crash, the Seattle Times recently ran an outstanding three day series on the corruption at Infospace, with a follow up today on the company's continued relations with its founder, Naveen Jain. Sunday's cover photo of Jain's new office shows a birthday photo of himself and another self-portrait in the background. Only the reflecting pool is missing."

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  1. This story makes no sense. by karmaflux · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't figure out why either company matters, what the hell this has to do with GNU, Linux, GNU/Linux, the F/OSS community, iPods, Eugenia from OS News, or Microsoft. It's not a MySQL story. Nobody's hammering the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox isn't even mentioned. And there's no question at the end like "what does this mean for Google's world domination plans?"

    I'm sorry, man, I just don't know what to make of this article.

    --

    REM Old programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.

  2. Better Invesment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm still pissed that I lost the money I invested in Infospace. Oh well, I hope to make a large return from the money I've invested in CherryOS and the Phantom console.

  3. Re:What about employees? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Shortly after my last day in December 2003, the entire executive board was replaced. Now InfoSpace is posting good numbers and wireless makes money.

    Coincidence? I think not.

    Don't be so hard on yourself. I'm sure it had nothing to do with you leaving.