Twenty-five years ago this week, the Nasdaq Composite Index hit its dot-com-era peak after soaring more than 500% in five ...
The notorious “dot-com” bubble—also known as the tech boom or internet bubble—was a period from about 1995 to about 2001 during which internet-related tech companies attracted a massive ...
eToys couldn’t compete against Toys R Us. Another famous example of a dot-com darling that went from boom to bust is eToys.com. This company was the most visited website during the holiday ...
Julius Probst, a labor economist at The Stepstone Group, a digital recruitment platform, fondly recalled the 1990s as an era of near-full employment. It was, he said, the “most spectacular” labor ...
How do hard-drive-makers keep up? Then, we explore what the dot-com bust can teach us about today's AI boom. WSJ reporter, Rolfe Winkler tells us all about bubbles. But first, AI requires a lot of ...
The current excitement around artificial intelligence has drawn comparisons to the dot-com bubble that burst 25 years ago, but there are key differences, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday.
Difference Of Degrees The main difference between the dot-com and AI eras, however, is degrees. The most recent boom has been eye-popping, but it pales in comparison to the extremes of the ...
Yet the dot.com boom and bust showed that big bets on ambitious technologies can pay off in the long run. The five most valuable listed companies globally—and six of the top seven—are tech ...