Chris Nerney

The trading day isn’t over yet, but based on opening prices, the big loser among the five IPOs hitting the tickers Tuesday appears to be the only Internet offering in the group. SkillSoft (SKIL), a New Hampshire company that provides Web-based training courses and software to large organizations and corporations, began trading under the Nasdaq […]

The St. Louis Rams were the big winners Sunday in one of the most exciting Super Bowls ever. E*Trade Group Inc. (EGRP) hopes it will emerge as the game’s other big winner. The No. 2 online broker spent $5 million to sponsor a star-studded halftime show aimed at an expected audience of 80 million or […]

With 21.3 million visitors in December, Go.com (GO) attracts more visitors to its Web sites than all but five Internet properties. Unfortunately for Go.com, those five are America Online Inc. (AOL), Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) , Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) , Lycos Inc. (LCOS) Lycos and Excite@Home (XCIT) – all of whom are competitors of Go.com in […]

Online toy seller eToys (ETYS) released an earnings report before the market opened Thursday showing a 366% increase in revenue for the crucial holiday shopping quarter. With $106.8 million in revenue for its fiscal third quarter ended Dec. 31 and figures from Media Metrix (MMXI) showing it was the most-visited toy site on the Internet […]

The stocks of a number of leading Internet companies have gone cold as winter sets in on Wall Street, most notably America Online Inc. (AOL)and CMGI (CMGI), both of whose shares are down about 20 percent since Dec. 31. RealNetworks (RNWK), in contrast, has been on fire. Shares were trading Wednesday afternoon at 178, up […]

Don’t count on seeing the Internet IPO skies light up in the immediate wake of Monday’s moonshot by Neoforma.com (NEOF), whose stock ended its first day of trading at 52 3/8, or 303 percent above the $13 offer price. While Neoforma.com’s street reception indicates strong pent-up demand for Internet offerings – it was the first […]

Like a pack of starving dogs being tossed a side of beef, Internet investors pounced all over the IPO of online medical supplies middleman Neoforma.com (NEOF) on Monday, with shares offered at $13 each opening at 40 7/8 before shooting up to 56 1/4 by early afternoon. That Neoforma.com bills itself as a B2B play […]

Internet stocks entered the new year on a roll, but quickly hit a wall as skittish investors and profit-takers drove down prices across a number of sectors. While results so far this year have been mixed, the market’s mood has been uneasy and slightly downbeat. But in the last week, a steady stream of positive […]

Early investors in free ‘Net access to schools provider ZapME! (IZAP) may be rueing the day they missed this important lesson: Companies with no revenues and unproven business models targeting markets subject to the crosswinds of political activism are risky bets. There were trouble signs right away. The company flunked its IPO test last Oct. […]

Investors expect most Internet companies to lose money for a while as their business models evolve and their target markets mature. However, there are limits to this tolerance, and online software retailer Beyond.com has exceeded them. The resignation of CEO Mark Breier and the elimination of 20% of its workforce, both announced Wednesday, are inevitable […]

It has attracted complaints, accusations, lawsuits and dire predictions of its demise. Yet the Internet domain registrar that everybody loves to hate continues to attract something else: eager investors. Through Tuesday afternoon trading, shares of Network Solutions Inc. (NSOL) surged toward their all-time high price of 287-3/4 set just four weeks ago. NSOL was up […]

It looks like we won’t see any Internet IPOs in the first half of this month, unless b2bstores.com, an online supplier of business products and services listed on some IPO schedules as pricing this week, rolls onto the launch pad later Friday. Still, it wasn’t until Jan. 15 last year that the first ‘Net stock […]