often attributive
: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website
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Shares skyrocketed 30% in premarket trading Wednesday on the results, putting them on pace for their best day since dot-com boom of 1999.
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Pia Singh, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
But those with long memories are tempering enthusiasm with prudence, remembering how the dot-com bubble led to unsustainable valuations and a painful crash.
—Tiz Gambacorta, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Of the 20 or so major chip manufacturers that thrived when the dot-com bubble burst, only three were manufacturing at scale by 2012: Intel, Samsung, and TSMC.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
In 2023 tech workers had the hardest twelve months since the dot-com crash of the early 2000s; 260,000 jobs disappeared.
—James Barrat, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
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Pia Singh, CNBC, 10 Sep. 2025
But those with long memories are tempering enthusiasm with prudence, remembering how the dot-com bubble led to unsustainable valuations and a painful crash.
—Tiz Gambacorta, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Of the 20 or so major chip manufacturers that thrived when the dot-com bubble burst, only three were manufacturing at scale by 2012: Intel, Samsung, and TSMC.
—Tiana Lowe Doescher, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
In 2023 tech workers had the hardest twelve months since the dot-com crash of the early 2000s; 260,000 jobs disappeared.
—James Barrat, Big Think, 2 Sep. 2025
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“Dot-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dot-com. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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