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...
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://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...
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...
Ian Andrew Bell has been bending bits into business since 1993. He created Tingle, RosterBot, RingCentral, and other things celebrated and ignominious.
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