Chris Nerney

Internet stocks have been on a wild ride in the past week, with huge losses followed by fantastic gains, sometimes in the same day. But when the smoke cleared in the week of trading concluded Wednesday, internet.com’s Internet Stock Index ended up almost exactly where it started. The ISDEX closed Wednesday’s session at 606.3, down […]

Maybe it was because the stock has been pounded for so long, or because the quarterly report so easily beat street expectations. Maybe it was because of erroneous headlines such as this one on Salon.com: “Amazon.com earnings soar.” Maybe it was all of those things. Whatever the reason for the market’s after-hours embrace of Amazon.com’s […]

Apparently deciding to confront the source of his gloom, a reader recently asked to see a list of Internet stocks that have lost the most value this year. We’ll give our moribund friend what he requested, but what we won’t give him is false hope. That’s why we’re not ready to proclaim the volatile market […]

Wall Street insiders are similar to casino owners in that neither are really in the gambling business. Rather, they are the “house,” making rules for the suckers who either don’t understand they’re playing a rigged game or are just hoping to be one of the lucky few allowed to win. Each house traditionally has had […]

Granted, it’s the equivalent of breaking up a no-hitter when your team is losing 10-0, but at least our long streak of weeks with no Internet sectors gaining ends at five. Even with last Friday’s huge recovery, though, only two ‘Net groups – Wireless and Consultants/Designers – avoided losses for the week. We’re still in […]

After a dizzying 12.6% plunge last week, internet.com’s Internet Stock Index put on the brakes this week, thanks primarily to Friday’s phenomenal market bounce-back. But it was still another down week for the ISDEX, which fell 3.7% to 607 on Wednesday and is one bad trading session from establishing a new closing low for the […]

One is a steady profit-generator. The other swims in a deepening pool of red ink. Yet investors greeted the latest earnings reports from firewall market leader Check Point Software Technologies and wireless device seller Handspring with nearly equal enthusiasm in early trading Wednesday. Shares of Check Point were up 9.6% to $161.06 shortly before noon, […]

It is one of the few Internet companies that has become synonymous with the market it dominates. That is, almost no one merely mentions “online auctions.” Instead, they talk specifically about eBay . Now eBay is shrewdly leveraging its superior brand awareness to develop revenue streams that will run through the capital of “old media”: […]

It is one of the few Internet companies that has become synonymous with the market it dominates. That is, almost no one merely mentions “online auctions.” Instead, they talk specifically about eBay . Now eBay is shrewdly leveraging its superior brand awareness to develop revenue streams that will run through the capital of “old media”: […]

It is one of the few Internet companies that has become synonymous with the market it dominates. That is, almost no one merely mentions “online auctions.” Instead, they talk specifically about eBay . Now eBay is shrewdly leveraging its superior brand awareness to develop revenue streams that will run through the capital of “old media”: […]

It is one of the few Internet companies that has become synonymous with the market it dominates. That is, almost no one merely mentions “online auctions.” Instead, they talk specifically about eBay . Now eBay is shrewdly leveraging its superior brand awareness to develop revenue streams that will run through the capital of “old media”: […]

It is one of the few Internet companies that has become synonymous with the market it dominates. That is, almost no one merely mentions “online auctions.” Instead, they talk specifically about eBay . Now eBay is shrewdly leveraging its superior brand awareness to develop revenue streams that will run through the capital of “old media”: […]