Chris Nerney

In their constant search for The Next Big Thing, investors, analysts and the media in recent months have moved beyond B2B and Linux and settled on fiber optics as an up-and-comer. For good reason. The technology, which enables the transmission of data via light waves, promises to dramatically increase the speed and bandwidth capacity of […]

While investors in the vast majority of Internet companies have had little to cheer about this year, at least most of them have some pleasant memories to cling to during these dark times. Not so for shareholders of HealthStream , whose ticker fortunes have gone from bad to worse since the company went public on […]

Last week I overheard a Boston venture capitalist bemoaning his recent investment in content delivery software vendor Akamai Technologies. I don’t know when he bought in, but judging from his slumped demeanor and disconsolate tone, I’m guessing it was around mid-July, when Akamai was priced over $125. Since then, shares have been felled by a […]

NOTE: Friday’s StockTracker Daily column now features internet.com’s free e-mail newsletter, Internet StockTracker, which covers the weekly performances of nearly 400 Internet stocks across 13 sectors. If you would like this newsletter delivered to your e-mail each Friday, you can sign up here. Aug. 4, 2000 – Last week only one Internet sector posted a […]

The red ink that continues to flow from Q2 earnings reports pushed Internet stocks even further under water in the week of trading ended Wednesday. This steep decline is reflected in internet.com’s Internet Stock Index, which fell 11.3% (from 771 to 684) and saw only one company, SportsLine.com , gain for the week. At the […]

The Internet IPO market showed signs of life in July, but both the number of ‘Net ticker debuts and the average first-day performance are well below the heady days of last fall and winter. Still, July’s average first-day return of 63% is the best monthly figure for Internet IPOs since March, and marks the third […]

With seven months down and five to go, this year can’t end fast enough for most Internet companies and their investors, as a downpour of red-stained Q2 reports drowns the dwindling hopes of many a doomed ‘Net ticker. The stock performance numbers continue to be scary. Of the 298 Internet companies that have been trading […]

When it comes to running a successful Internet business, sometimes being a “visionary” just isn’t enough. Of course, it’s not likely that former iVillage CEO Candice Carpenter will be labeled a visionary again anytime soon, not after guiding the women’s Web content network through quarter after quarter of losses that are mind-boggling even by ‘Net […]

Well, we’ve got another big week of Internet quarterly reports to come in this, the most important earnings season ever for Internet companies. And while some ‘Net players have wowed the street with record revenue growth and profits, the vast majority continue to turn in net losses, most notably Amazon.com. As expected, the market has […]

In late April I wrote that Amazon.com’s Q1 earnings report “offered the first tangible evidence that the company is turning toward profitability.” AMZN’s net loss for Q1 was $308 million, down from $323 in last year’s fourth quarter. It was the first sequential quarterly reduction of net loss in the company’s history. This, along with […]

One company had a leading share of the e-commerce software market before many of its current competitors even existed. The other went public just last year, going virtually unnoticed by most investors in the flood of IPOs from business-to-business e-commerce firms. Now, however, it is the latter company, Art Technology Group , that is emerging […]

By next Wednesday, the market’s process of sorting winners from losers among Internet companies may shift into overdrive. That’s because more than 150 ‘Net companies are scheduled to report earnings this week and next, and investors will be watching closely to determine which companies and sectors are worth betting on. The two biggest days for […]