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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
I never understood their business plan. DoDots was creating software that allowed people to embed internet-based applications on the desktop — sorry, but isn’t that a web browser? Anyway, this is Softbank’s biggest failure to date. I think they had...
Interesting, now that Starbuck is better known as a Barista than an Intergalactic Fighter Pilot. It won’t be the same without Lorne Greene, though. -Ian.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,681626a10,FF.html Calling all Jedis, census night awaits 05 MARCH 2001 May the farce be with you . . . Tomorrow is census night and a light-hearted e-mail is circulating the country encouraging Star Wars buffs who don’t...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
He is also a Hockeyist, Motorcyclist, and Aviation Enthusiast. Follow him on twitter as @ianb or find him on LinkedIN.
