Lofty palm trees and emerald tropical plants dot the sidewalks and the charming plazas.
In some ways Google feels like the giddy dot-coms of the stock-market bubble, circa 1999.
These roadside food trucks dot the province serving up classic poutines that make purists swoon.
But, then the dot com bubble burst and they were forced to make money.
No flight has been that dismal since the rule was put in place, the DOT said.
That was during the dot-bust rollup, and I said it was impossible to do another Oracle.
Several thousand dot-commers have been laid-off in the last few months here in the Bay Area.
Clad in their polka-dot and plaid pajamas, the Parmas grabbed their dog, Boo, and fled.
"One year from now I'll have 100, 000 of these, " he says, nudging his electronic dot.
That should make the smiley bouncing yellow dot that stars in Wal-Mart's television ads even happier.
All of this excitement had created a rush to go public, reminiscent of the dot.com era.
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With the ease of online trading, retail investors had an insatiable appetite for dot-coms.
Still, Green Dot, NetSpend, RushCard, AccountNow and others continue to sign up new customers in droves.
See also Henry Blodget, Mary Meeker and Anthony Noto from the dot com bubble.
As the dot.com bubble burst, Citigroup was having trouble with its image and stock valuations.
It was mainly in the dot-com boom of the 1990s when homes got massive.
Mr. Schaefer thinks his undisclosed dot-something could become a leading rival to the ubiquitous dot-com registry.
Their business, called Commercial Connect LLC, initially applied for the rights to dot-shop in 2000.
But for the current crop of people hoping to become dot-anything entrepreneurs, there's an immediate concern.
Much of the mad rush to sink millions into consumer mobile startups parallels the dot-com boom.
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Another big difference between this bubble and the dot-com bubble is supply and demand.
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In the dot-com heyday, there was huge supply of hundreds of Internet company IPOs.
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That's still a far cry from its dot-com era high of 5, 048 from March 10, 2000.
Stories of these kinds, whether true or apocryphal, dot the landscape of college sports.
In the computer industry the possibilities are endless, such as computers the size of a dot.
He has basically fallen asleep in his scallops, a dot of sour cream on his tie.
There you met the agent who would pore over dot-matrix printouts of your financial woes.
The Chelmsford, Massachusetts-based company, co-founded by Smith in 1998, was a dot-com bubble darling.
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Curious cat's-cradle-like constructions, trabucchi, dot the Gargano coast, ancient fishing tools still in use today.
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