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Another Dot-com Boom?

Posted by timothy on from the buy-lnux-please dept.

Ryan Hemelaar writes "CNN Money is reporting that the internet might be at a stage of another dot-com boom, with the top tech stocks now gaining ground again after the dot-com crash. From the article: "Now, 10 years after two key events in the history of the Internet -- the successful IPO of Netscape, which many cite as the beginning of Wall Street's love affair with 'Net stocks, and the founding of Yahoo! -- we're in the midst of a new, let's say mini dot-com boom.""

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  1. Buy, buy, buy!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    There's no end in sight!

    1. Re:Buy, buy, buy!! by Strike · · Score: 4, Funny

      Alternately, the phrase which got you in trouble in the first place:

      "Will you marry me?"

    2. Re:Buy, buy, buy!! by smoker2 · · Score: 2, Funny

      The four most expensive words in the English Language: "This Time It's Different"
      Or in Michael Jacksons case : "fancy a sleepover, kids ?"

    3. Re:Buy, buy, buy!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Nope: "oops, I just came."

  2. Re:Google's IPO by RevengeOfPoopJuggler · · Score: 1, Funny

    Expect to see the Googlees breakfast cereal on the shelves soon

  3. $78,540,000,000 by bigtallmofo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Blasphemy! How dare you suggest that Google might not be worth nearly EIGHTY BILLION DOLLARS. That's its current market capitalization.

    How does that compare to other companies?

    Oracle: 64.78 billion
    3M: 58.56 billion
    American Express: 68.43 billion
    Disney: 57.82 billion
    General Motors: 19.48 billion
    Red Hat: 2.2 billion

    Anyone that suggests that a brand new company like Google shouldn't be worth 4x more than General Motors just isn't thinking correctly.

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    I'm a big tall mofo.
    1. Re:$78,540,000,000 by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 2, Funny

      They have search bots which catalog and index financial websites.

      However, each search result containing financial details, they shave of $0.001 from the details.

      And you say google isn't evil ;)

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      liqbase :: faster than paper
    2. Re:$78,540,000,000 by elrous0 · · Score: 2, Funny
      Where does google's income come from, exactly?

      1. Get lots of page views and public attention
      2. ??
      3. Profit!!
      -Eric
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      SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
    3. Re:$78,540,000,000 by fitsnips · · Score: 2, Funny

      Have you ever called RH for support? If so you would know that thats not what RH provides!

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      I am a republican not by choice, but rather by lack there of.
  4. when it bursts by dioscaido · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google should remember to grab as much copper wiring from the walls as possible!

  5. Re:Another decade, another hype... by ergo98 · · Score: 2, Funny

    They just want more people to watch their boring Money TV programs.

    So true. Apart from the few lucky guys that bailed out at the right time and got rich, the biggest beneficiaries of the boom were the stock porn purveyors pimping round-the-clock information whores.

  6. Re:Google's IPO by lowrydr310 · · Score: 3, Funny

    All they need to do is repackage Fruit Looooooooooops

  7. Re:in that I don't disagree. by mooingyak · · Score: 3, Funny

    You better believe Buddha knew how to calculate a P/E ratio. Zen investment is what it's all about.

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    William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.