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: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website
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In March, 2000, the dot-com bubble finally burst, and during the subsequent eighteen months the Nasdaq plunged about seventy per cent, inflicting huge losses on those who had got in near the market top.
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John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
The shares have climbed 60% since the Nov. 5 election, and finally exceeded their dot-com era high from 2000 on Nov. 11.
—Mackenzie Sigalos,ari Levy, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024
Part of the dot-com boom at the turn of the millennium, MicroStrategy shifted its focus beginning in 2020 from its software business to becoming the most prominent voice advocating for bitcoin as a long-term store of value akin to gold.
—Derek Saul, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Since the start of 2023, the Nasdaq 100 is on track to double, nearing a 100% gain — a performance last achieved in 2019-20 with a 102% rise and previously hit during the dot-com boom of 1998-99.
—Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2024
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John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024
The shares have climbed 60% since the Nov. 5 election, and finally exceeded their dot-com era high from 2000 on Nov. 11.
—Mackenzie Sigalos,ari Levy, CNBC, 23 Dec. 2024
Part of the dot-com boom at the turn of the millennium, MicroStrategy shifted its focus beginning in 2020 from its software business to becoming the most prominent voice advocating for bitcoin as a long-term store of value akin to gold.
—Derek Saul, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
Since the start of 2023, the Nasdaq 100 is on track to double, nearing a 100% gain — a performance last achieved in 2019-20 with a 102% rise and previously hit during the dot-com boom of 1998-99.
—Benzinga, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2024
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“Dot-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dot-com. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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