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: a company that markets its products or services usually exclusively online via a website
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The governor has long been an ally of Silicon Valley dating back to his days as a supervisor and later mayor of San Francisco in the late 1990s and early 2000s during the dot-com boom.
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Lia Russell
march 25, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2026
From the October 2002 low, Cisco is up roughly 1,000%, which is certainly eye-catching — but less so when compared to the move before the dot-com crash.
—Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2026
Even coffee shops and street corners buzzed with activity and people Monday and Tuesday morning in ways rarely seen since the dot-com days of the late 1990s.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2026
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.
—Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026
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Lia Russell
march 25, Sacbee.com, 26 Mar. 2026
From the October 2002 low, Cisco is up roughly 1,000%, which is certainly eye-catching — but less so when compared to the move before the dot-com crash.
—Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 25 Mar. 2026
Even coffee shops and street corners buzzed with activity and people Monday and Tuesday morning in ways rarely seen since the dot-com days of the late 1990s.
—Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 17 Mar. 2026
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.
—Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026
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“Dot-com.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dot-com. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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