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: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website
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The shares are still up about 69% for the year, which would be the best annual performance since the dot-com boom of 1999.
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Jonathan Vanian,ari Levy, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
In the late nineteen-nineties, the major paradigm shift that underpinned the dot-com boom was the rise of online commerce, which led to the creation of startups that issued stock on the Nasdaq, such as Amazon, eBay, Pets.com, and Webvan.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
By Rashi Shrivastava, Zoya Hasan, Sarah Emerson and Richard Nieva
The 2025 Under 30 cohort was just coming into the world when the dot-com boom took the markets by storm.
—Sarah Emerson, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Even after the strongest rally since the early days of the dot-com boom, the S&P 500 Index still has room to push higher through the end of the year, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s trading desk.
—Bloomberg, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
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Jonathan Vanian,ari Levy, CNBC, 10 Dec. 2024
In the late nineteen-nineties, the major paradigm shift that underpinned the dot-com boom was the rise of online commerce, which led to the creation of startups that issued stock on the Nasdaq, such as Amazon, eBay, Pets.com, and Webvan.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
By Rashi Shrivastava, Zoya Hasan, Sarah Emerson and Richard Nieva
The 2025 Under 30 cohort was just coming into the world when the dot-com boom took the markets by storm.
—Sarah Emerson, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
Even after the strongest rally since the early days of the dot-com boom, the S&P 500 Index still has room to push higher through the end of the year, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s trading desk.
—Bloomberg, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
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“Dot-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dot-com. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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