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Boo.com, spent $188 million in just six months in an attempt create a global online fashion store. Went bankrupt in May 2000.
Broadcast.com was a web radio company founded as “AudioNet” in September 1995. The organization hugely capitalized on the Dot-com bubble. Broadcast.com was acquired by Yahoo! for $5.9 billion in Yahoo! stock. Yahoo! split the services into separate services and discontinued its functionality. As of May, 2009, broadcast.com simply redirects to yahoo.com.
e.Digital Corporation (EDIG): Long term unprofitable OTCBB traded company founded in 1988 previously named Norris Communications. Changed its name to e.Digital in January 1999 when stock was at $0.06 level. The stock rose rapidly in 1999 and went from closing price of $2.91 on 12/31/99 to intraday high of $24.50 on 1/24/00. It quickly retraced and has traded between $0.08 and $0.20 in 2008 and 2009.
eToys: share price went from the $80 reached during its IPO in May 1999 to less than $1 when it declared bankruptcy in February 2001.
Freeinternet.com – Filed for bankruptcy in October 2000, soon after cancelling its IPO. At the time Freeinternet.com was the fifth largest ISP in the United States, with 3.2 million users. Famous for its mascot Baby Bob, the company lost $19 million in 1999 on revenues of less than $1 million.
GeoCities, purchased by Yahoo! for $3.57 billion in January 1999. Expected to shut down in late 2009.
theGlobe.com – Was a social networking service, that went live in April 1995 and made headlines by going public on November 1998 and posting the largest first day gain of any IPO in history up to that date. The CEO became in 1999 a visible symbol of the excesses of dot-com millionaires.
GovWorks.com – the doomed dot-com featured in the documentary film Startup.com
Hotmail – founder Sabeer Bhatia sold the company to Microsoft for $400 million; at that time Hotmail had 9 million members.
InfoSpace – In March 2000 this stock reached a price $1,305 per share, but by April 2001 its price had crashed down to $22 a share.
The Learning Company, bought by Mattel in 1999 for $3.5 billion, sold for $27.3 million in 2000
Think Tools AG, one of the most extreme symptoms of the bubble in Europe: market valuation of CHF 2.5 billion in March 2000, no prospects of having a substantial product (investor deception), followed by a collapse.
Xcelera.com, a Swedish investor in start-up technology firms.
from wikipedia