Chris Nerney

It remains, thanks to a sizeable head start, the leader among companies that measure Internet traffic for Web sites and their advertisers. But ever since it began tracking Internet audience usage in January 1996, Media Metrix has worn a bulls-eye on its back. With a market capitalization of well under $1 billion for most of […]

Investors in Inktomi should indeed be bothered by news that Yahoo! is replacing the company’s search technology with that of rival Google. After all, Yahoo’s search service is used more than any other by Web surfers worldwide, and thus provides a high-profile platform for whatever search technology runs behind the user interface. But does that […]

For the second consecutive week, results are mixed for Internet stocks: Five sectors up, five down, and two treading water. Not exciting, but not scary, and perfectly reflective of the market’s uncertain mood. Will interest rates go up again? Have the ‘Net stocks found the bottom? Will next month’s round of earnings reports show improved […]

After months of stumbling through ever-deeper losses, internet.com’s Internet Stock Index is drawing a bead on the black. Riding a June comeback among tech stocks, the ISDEX closed trading Wednesday at 776, leaving it down 9.8 percent for the year. Perhaps not cause for celebration, but given that the ISDEX was down 26.4 percent for […]

Shares of online B2B market software maker Commerce One fell 16.4 percent Tuesday after the company announced it would acquire Internet consulting services firm AppNet in a stock deal valued at $1.4 billion. Two things appear to be bothering investors: 1) The belief that Commerce One is paying too much for AppNet, which had a […]

In early March, it was up an astounding 340 percent for the year, closing on March 9 at $315 per share. Just five weeks later, those gains evaporated in a marketwide meltdown, as shares finished trading on April 17 at 71 1/4, slightly below the Dec. 31 closing price of 71 5/8. But wireless information […]

NOTE: Beginning today, StockTracker Daily will be replaced on Fridays by Internet StockTracker, a detailed report covering the previous week of activity for Internet stocks. Internet StockTracker divides more than 350 publicly traded ‘Net companies into 12 different sectors (with a 13th coming soon). Data includes average gains and losses for each Internet sector, as […]

After a week that took Internet investors back to the halcyon days of late fall – when ‘Net stocks finished a record-breaking year with a sizzling run-up – you just knew there had to be a letdown, especially with yet another possible interest-rate increase on the horizon. Fortunately, it doesn’t appear to be the beginning […]

One day you’re an Internet superstar, the next day your earnings report is relegated to the “in other news” section of trade and business publications. That’s what can happen when your stock falls nearly 70 percent since the beginning of the year. And that’s what happened to Internet incubator CMGI , whose “beat the street” […]

The common wisdom among Internet investors is that most stand-alone e-tailers, perhaps as many as three-quarters, will perish. And I’m not just talking about the many smaller e-tailers that already have passed on to that big Web site in the sky or find themselves on death row. Even the “successful” online retailers – those companies […]

The music industry will never be able to fully stop consumers from downloading songs for free from the Internet, any more than the computer industry has been able to halt the proliferation of pirated software. But what the music business giants can do is make the companies that provide enabling technology for downloading free music […]

Like an engaged couple being showered with gifts and attention on the eve of their wedding, security software vendor VeriSign and Internet domain registrar Network Solutions have been the top-performing stocks over the past month in internet.com’s Internet Stock Index. Though both were down slightly in early trading Thursday, NSOL and VRSN lead the ISDEX […]