Word: yahoos
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Yahoo. After the end-of-session bell, the tech bellwether is expected by some to disappoint with its earnings report, thanks to a slowdown in the dot-com advertising sector. (Less new dot-coms these days, which means less new dot-com ad men bidding for space on prime-time portal Yahoo.) If Yahoo - which is unveiling some new voice-based services (read: potential revenue streams) Tuesday afternoon, possibly as a means of softening the blow for the earnings news - can please the Street, good vibrations for the dot-commerce sector could follow. If Yahoo disappoints, it's one more...
...Nick Leeson brought down Barings bank with $1.4 billion in fraudulent trades. At 25, Gary Hoke faked a Bloomberg news report linked to a Yahoo bulletin board in a stock scam that cost investors $93,000. At 24, Rafael Shaoulian littered financial bulletin boards with unfounded hype that enabled him to sell a stock and pocket $173,000. At 23, Mark Jakob drove down the stock of Emulex with a phony Internet report. He bought with a vengeance after the decline and made $241,000 when the hoax was discovered and the stock rebounded...
...violating the terms of his membership" (which can mean anything from spamming to being abusive to going "off topic" on message boards). The last time he posted a message to the site was July 17, 1999. He then apparently gave up and moved to the less regulated environment of Yahoo. What may have helped the SEC is that Silicon Investor has archived all 15 million of the messages placed on its 20,000 message boards since inception. A trail was easy to generate...
...Internet Underground Music Archive, is offering $5,000 cash to any parents willing to give their baby the first name Iuma. So far, no fewer than five babies, including little Iuma Ross, right, of Williamsburg, Pa., have benefited from the campaign. At least they didn't name the kid Yahoo...
...MAILIN' ME? Passengers in New York City taxis are generally too busy fearing for their life to get bored, but in that unlikely event, they can now pass the time by surfing the Internet. The Web portal Yahoo has mounted Palm VII handheld computers, which can access the Internet wirelessly, in the backseats of 10 New York cabs; it also painted and upholstered them in purple. Unfortunately, you still won't be able to hail one when it's raining...