…as told to Fucked Company: Another Idealab Company going under? eVoice Rumor has it that eVoice is going out of business. We’re in a similar business and one of our busdev guys heard this from one of our competitors. The folks at eVoice are / were so...
Of course, it wasn’t rocket science. >From FuckedCompany: 720 was a rad video game Optical networker 360Networks declared bankruptcy and eliminated 800 positions worldwide. When: 7/2/2001 Company: 360Networks Severity: 100 – new hall of fame inductee!...
Us Canadians take it for granted that the incumbent local carriers (TELUS, Bell Canada, Sasktel, et al) offer Long-Distance services to their customers and are the default carriers. Not so in the US, where the big breakup in 1981 meant that the entire LD pie went to...
—— Forwarded Message From: rudy rouhana Reply-To: rudy [at] rouhana [dot] com Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:39:50 -0700 (PDT) To: fork [at] xent [dot] com Subject: Re: Bush Thanks Gates for Election Donations… I have always maintained that one of the...
In a FOIB posting several years ago I pointed out that perhaps Microsoft’s biggest crime of the last decade was in not playing ball with the big kids along the shores of the Delaware. Up until 1998 they had no lobbyists, made no campaign donations, and (except...
How the mighty have fallen! Is it me, or does the whole 360 Networks thing smell a lot like LEDCOR making a lot of money from a subsidiary’s IPO and generating a lot of construction business worldwide? I’d be interested to know how many of 360’s...
http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news/ap/20010626/ap-avalanche-bourque.html Bourque retires after 22 years in NHL, Stanley Cup win By JOHN MOSSMAN AP Sports Writer June 26, 2001 DENVER (AP) — For 22 seasons, Ray Bourque performed like few others on the ice. On...
As your humble listmaster predicted, it was only a matter of waiting until dot com euphoria subsided before the big boys would move into the market. They just waited out the tide as the valuations of these grocers dwindled to nothing and swooped in to take HUGE chunks...
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