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Cisco To Cut up to 5,000 Jobs

I’m SO glad I left. If their stock continues to tank they won’t have to lay off anybody. But christ, when I joined Cisco in September 1998 Cisco had 18,000 employees. But now 44,000? That’s crazy. Anyway, John Chambers once said that, as a result of...

Re: IPO.com Pricing Range Alert – LOUDCLOUD, INC.

My neighbour in LA is still dating Marc. I think your opinion is a popular one. He’s been marketed, at times, as a wunderkind and a technological visionary. I think that, if anything, Netscape’s failure to execute on anything resembling a business strategy...

Idealab! & Airwave

I never figured out what Idealab!’s investment in eVoice was, but it can’t be too significant. Idealab! never even mentions them. Anyway, the Airwave guys pitched me their plan when they were first starting last summer. I wasn’t under anybody’s...

Etoys

Wow. Etoys is toast. Feb. 26th they announced their intention to file for Chapter 11. They owe $1.5M to UPS and about $1.5M to Hasbro, among others. So the curious thing is.. Has Idealab! caught on to our attempts to track the erosion of their CardNest, or have their...

Official Word..

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010307/tc/yahoo_outlook_6.html Wednesday March 7 7:00 PM ET Yahoo! CEO Tim Koogle To Step Down By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, AP Business Writer SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) – Tim Koogle is stepping aside as chief executive of struggling Internet...

Yahoo!

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010307/wr/yahoo_shares_dc_3.html Wednesday March 7 1:30 PM ET Yahoo! to Make Announcement Wednesday Afternoon PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) – The Internet media company Yahoo! Inc.(NasdaqNM:YHOO – news) said Wednesday it...

http://www.latimes.com/business/work/20010304/t000019124.html Sunday, March 4, 2001 Workers Who Survive Layoffs Often Share Certain Traits By SARAH HALE, Times Staff Writer      Am I a keeper or a goner?      That is the question Edward, an engineer for a...

Pig Latin Encoders for Napster

http://slashdot.org/articles/01/03/06/1448236.shtml Posted by Hemos on Tuesday March 06, @09:48AM from the pretty-darn-funny dept. wiggles writes “On Sunday night, Napster started filtering out copyrighted song names from its system. People have been proposing...

Free World Dialup

Last Shot: For FOIBers, anyone interested in taking advantage of Jeff’s generous Free World Dialup offer, pay attention to this message. It gets you: – a free KOMODO device (which enables you to make calls over the internet using a regular telephone) and...