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: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website
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The major downturns of the past, such as the crashes of 1929, 2000 and 2008, have been caused less by external events than by business and investment internals, such as threats to economic structure — over-leveraging in the first, the dot-com crash in the second and the housing crash in the third.
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Michael Hiltzik, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2026
The Internet didn’t fail because dot-com stocks crashed.
—Doug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Some of the quick compression in value has drawn comparisons to the dot-com bust.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
Lanzone, 55, finally got his chance after the private equity firm Apollo Global Management paid $5 billion to take over Yahoo in September 2021 — a fraction of its peak $125 billion market value reached during the dot-com boom’s giddy days in early 2000.
—Michael Liedtke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
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Michael Hiltzik, Boston Herald, 3 Apr. 2026
The Internet didn’t fail because dot-com stocks crashed.
—Doug Ashburn, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
Some of the quick compression in value has drawn comparisons to the dot-com bust.
—Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
Lanzone, 55, finally got his chance after the private equity firm Apollo Global Management paid $5 billion to take over Yahoo in September 2021 — a fraction of its peak $125 billion market value reached during the dot-com boom’s giddy days in early 2000.
—Michael Liedtke, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
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“Dot-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dot-com. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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