Struggling in the aftermath of the dot-com bubble bust, Compaq was acquired for US $ 25 billion by HP in 2002.

The dot-com bubble ( also referred to as the Internet bubble and the Information Technology Bubble ) was a historic speculative bubble covering roughly 1995 – 2000 ( with a climax on March 10, 2000, with the NASDAQ peaking at 5132. 52 in intraday trading before closing at 5048. 62 ) during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the Internet sector and related fields.

In spite of this, however, a few company founders made vast fortunes when their companies were bought out at an early stage in the dot-com stock market bubble.

The technology-heavy NASDAQ Composite index peaked at 5, 048 in March 2000, reflecting the high point of the dot-com bubble.

Perez also says excess financial speculation is likely to occur in the " frenzy " stage of a new technology, such as the 1998 – 2000 during the dot-com bubble.

Set in the early 1990s, it captures the state of the technology industry before Windows 95, and predicts the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s.

Coupland's novel predicted the outcome of the late-1990s dot-com bubble with his depiction of the Oop!

* 2000 – S & P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1, 552. 87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.

EASDAQ ( European Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotation System ) founded originally as a European equivalent to NASDAQ, it was purchased by NASDAQ in 2001 and became NASDAQ Eur03, it shut down operations as a result of the burst of the dot-com bubble.

This game is often referred to as the " dot-com " Super Bowl since it was held during the height of the dot-com bubble, and several internet companies purchased television commercials.

At the height of the dot-com bubble, on 13 June 2000, close to one third of Telia's shares were introduced on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, bringing solid cash to the Swedish state.

The renaming was partly to broaden the appeal of the site and the instant brand equity during the Internet bubble of using a simple word followed by dot-com as both site address and company name.

As a result, the wholesale price of data traffic collapsed in the dot-com bubble.

During the dot-com bubble 1997-2001 this was a problem for many technology start-ups.

These actions were believed by many to have caused the bursting of the dot-com bubble.

In 1997, the capital of the new public company was successfully open whereas the dot-com bubble phenomenon made the stock exchanges bullish.

France Telecom got behind in the internationalization launched by its international competitors such as Vodafone, thus, it started looking for targets at the highest speculation rate of the dot-com bubble.

In March 2004, the mergers made by France Telecom between its mobile phone subsidiary Orange, bought at full price during the dot-com bubble, and its internet provider subsidiary Wanadoo which was renamed Orange led to a controversy.

It is possible for stock markets to get caught up in an economic bubble, like the steep rise in valuation of technology stocks in the late 1990s followed by the dot-com crash in 2000.

He successfully led the corporation through some of its worst times, including the burst of the dot-com bubble and a severe recession.

The NASDAQ Composite index spiked in the late 90s and then fell sharply as a result of the dot-com bubble.

The financial troubles that followed the burst of the dot-com bubble in 2000 / 2001, led to the May 2003 restructuring of Marconi plc to Marconi Corporation plc.

With the financial collapse of the service provider industry and overall burst of the dot-com bubble, Inktomi lost most of its customer base.

Davis began his tenure as Governor with strong approval ratings, but those ratings declined as voters blamed Davis for the California electricity crisis and the California budget crisis that followed the dot-com bubble burst.

Then, the dot-com boom that had been fueling California's record tax revenues burst unexpectedly because of the large number of high tech firms in California and California's dependence on state income taxes.

By the middle of 2000, the dot-com bubble had burst, Hasbro share price had lost 70 % of its value in just over a year and Hasbro would post a net loss the first time in two decades.

After the dot-com bubble burst in 2001, the city lost several flights because of a decrease in demand.

Neuer Markt ), former German stock index of new economy companies, discontinued after the burst of the dot-com bubble ( succeeded by the TecDAX )

However, after the dot-com bubble burst, it reached a post-bubble low of $ 4. 05 on September 26, 2001.

CNBC's international channels were then merged into a 50-50 joint venture with their Dow Jones-owned rivals, London-based EBN ( European Business News ) and Singapore-sited ABN ( Asia Business News ) in 1998, while ratings grew on the U. S. channel until the new millennium's dot-com bubble burst in 2000.

After the company went under during the dot-com bubble burst of 2000, her friend Catherine Schwartz got her hired at TechTV in 2001, and Webb became employed as the associate producer and web researcher for The Screen Savers.

The burst of the dot-com bubble hurt Smith Tower by raising its vacancy rate to 26. 1 percent, twice Seattle's commercial vacancy rate, as of December 21, 2001.

These activities popularised the trestle desk as a desk form, and some of this survived after the dot-com burst in the year 2000.

Note that the 5 years preceding the dot-com bubble burst, growth stocks did better than value, since then value stocks have generally done better.

The U. S. economy boomed in the enthusiasm for high-technology industries in the 1990s until the NASDAQ crashed as the dot-com bubble burst and the early 2000s recession marked the end of the sustained economic growth.

Marconi borrowed heavily to finance expansion into this market and was especially vulnerable to the burst of the dot-com bubble.

After the dot-com bubble burst in mid-2000, iiNet fared poorly on the markets-with shares at one stage falling to from a issue price-however its share price recovered as time progressed.

In 1998, two years prior to the dot-com bubble burst of Silicon Valley, Cringely hosted a sequel, Nerds 2. 0. 1: A Brief History of the Internet.

Shortly after the announced deal, the NASDAQ stock market crashed in the spring of 2000 in the dot-com bubble burst.

Later in the 2000s ( decade ), after the burst of the dot-com bubble the term was used to refer to the leaders of the surviving companies.

When the dot-com bubble burst, Alex finally got the opportunity to assign such tasks to Robin, who eventually left the bank.

This effort resulted in limited success as well, and happening about the same time as the dot-com bubble burst, caused ADC stock to plummet.

Although many disappeared in the 90s following the burst of the " dot-com bubble ", many boiler rooms still operate across the world.