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: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website
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After the dot-com bubble burst and Microsoft’s final stock split in 2003, shares entered a long holding pattern that lasted nearly a decade.
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Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026
But as the dot-com boom reshaped the tech industry, the festival’s technology and innovation track — where Twitter debuted in 2007 — stepped into the spotlight, attracting major sponsorships, vendors and investment to an event long defined by music and, more recently, film.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 11 Mar. 2026
Other experts have long compared the AI industry boom to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, with some going as far as to claim a new crisis could be even worse.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 4 Mar. 2026
The noted investor compares the current situation to that of Cisco Systems during the height of the dot-com boom in the late 1990s and the early 2000s.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
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Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026
But as the dot-com boom reshaped the tech industry, the festival’s technology and innovation track — where Twitter debuted in 2007 — stepped into the spotlight, attracting major sponsorships, vendors and investment to an event long defined by music and, more recently, film.
—Karoline Leonard, Austin American Statesman, 11 Mar. 2026
Other experts have long compared the AI industry boom to the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, with some going as far as to claim a new crisis could be even worse.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 4 Mar. 2026
The noted investor compares the current situation to that of Cisco Systems during the height of the dot-com boom in the late 1990s and the early 2000s.
—Yun Li, CNBC, 26 Feb. 2026
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“Dot-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dot-com. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.
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