12/11/00 Move
Over, Bill!
Meet the software class of 2000, a scrappy
lot that were the first to spy out the potential of Web software
and are now cashing in. With kooky little names like BEA, i2,
Kana, and E.piphany, these upstarts are shaking up the computer
landscape, snaring big customers, and leaving industry stalwarts
shaking their heads. But life isn't going to be all peaches
and cream for these upstarts, because the big boys aren't going
to give up without a fight--and they still have a lot of firepower
11/20/00 Laying
It On the Line
Bernie Ebbers, telecom's swaggering cowboy,
delivered a profit warning and an apology to WorldCom investors
on Nov. 1. They responded by lopping $17 billion more off his
company's market cap. Now, with its long-distance business unraveling,
Ebbers sees salvation in the Internet. But visionary Vice-Chairman
John Sidgmore is growing increasingly detached and could soon
be on his way out. Has too much time passed for WorldCom to
become a player in high-value Internet services?
10/23/00 Cliff-hanger
Christmas
This holiday season is shaping up as the
biggest test yet for the viability of selling to customers over
the Net. Some of the Web's most pedigreed merchants already
are crashing and burning. Out of all this carnage, online merchants
are gravitating to a new model. Pure e-tailers and traditional
retailers are starting to tap each others' bring together the
best of clicks and bricks
09/18/00 The
Web Smart 50
Everyone has access to Net technology.
What really matters is having the brains, guts, and creativity
to take maximum advantage of it. Hundreds of companies, from
door builders in Wisconsin to a fashion company in Spain, are
getting wise to the ways of the Web, and in the process blowing
away the Old World Order. With the e.biz Web Smart 50, we celebrate
the new innovators--real, live, profit-producing companies that
are changing how business is done.
07/24/00 Dot-Coms
Fight for Survival
Gone are the days of measuring a company's
success solely on huge runups in revenues-and damn the
losses. Instead, executives are struggling with much thornier
problems: How to trim expenses, how to maintain morale in the
face of painful layoffs, and most important, how to make some
money. Lots of dot-coms won't survive-but some will
06/05/00 Gateway's
Big Gamble
Ted Waitt has built the world's fourth-largest
pc company through direct contact with consumers--on the Web,
on the phone, and at its Gateway stores. Now, Waitt wants to
be the "IT department for the masses." Gateway's already offering
PC buyers financing, training, and repair. Next, it will roll
out appliances that connect instantly to the services of America
Online, its high-profile partner for the Internet Age
05/15/00 The
e.biz 25
Recent events on Wall Street have produced
plenty of walking dot-com wounded. Others are not only still
walking tall, but poised for a new surge of growth. These masters
of the Web world stand to share a pie that could be worth $4
trillion by 2003. Meet this year's over-achievers
04/03/00 Weblining
Yup, it's like that nasty old practice
of redlining, updated for the Information Age. A growing number
of companies are using databases teeming with personal information
to "micro-segment" their customers. The more finely they do,
the more they can figure what you're worth to them--and cut
you off if you're not profitable. Sure, stereotyping can mean
marketing efficiencies. It can also mean newly legitimized forms
of discrimination
02/07/00 Tricks
of E*Trade
A former financial services outsider, CEO
Christos Cotsakos in three years has made E*Trade the No. 2
online stockbroker -- and a company where bonding and wackiness
are prized. When the online brokerage skirmish turns to war,
he'll be ready -- but he won't be in a suit.
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