Chris Nerney

eBay sent a message to investors Tuesday that was unmistakable: The online auction leader is serious about solving the troublesome technological snafus that have led to numerous outages on its Web site. Investors reacted in predictably short-sighted fashion, focusing on the up-front costs of eBay’s infrastructure investment and thus sending shares of (EBAY) down from […]

Last week I wrote about rumors that three Internet companies – CMGI Inc. (CMGI), eToys (ETYS) (ETYS) and Excite@Home (ATHM) — were vying to buy online greeting card site Blue Mountain Arts. Sources had told The Wall Street Journal that Web retailer eToys had the inside track, but I argued that CMGI could emerge as […]

Networking company A has been in business for almost three years, generating revenue for 11 straight quarters. Last week it reported revenue growth of 110 percent over the year-ago quarter and, excluding one-time charges, a 33% reduction of its net loss. Networking company B didn’t ship its first product until May, has only one customer […]

With much of the quarterly earnings season behind us, now might be a good time to take a look at some of the big winners so far. Among the winners this quarter are a number of companies offering e-commerce software and services. The triple-digit revenue growth many of them are experiencing indicate the market’s bullishness […]

You have to go back to 1997 to find a quarter in which America Online’s earnings didn’t beat Wall Street estimates. Yet as recently as June some analysts expressed disappointment over AOL’s subscriber growth — still its bread-and-butter — hinting that trouble lay ahead for the Internet’s dominant player as it faced challenges from free […]

They once were a sorry bunch, the August Internet IPOs. With an average first-day gain of 45% above their respective offer prices, the August ‘Net offerings still own the record for worst collective ticker debuts of 1999. Which, of course, gave these stocks plenty of room to move north. And a bunch of them have. […]

Company Latest Quote IPO Date Lead Underwriter Offered Shares Offer Price Stock Chart Latest filing IDT IDTC 3/15/96 Cowen & Company 4.6 million $10 View Chart View Filing ImageX.com IMGX 8/26/99 Volpe Brown Whelan 3.0 million $7 View Chart View Filing Infonautics INFO 4/30/96 Hambrecht & Quist 2.25 million $13 View Chart View Filing Infoseek […]

Company Latest Quote IPO Date Lead Underwriter Offered Shares Offer Price Stock Chart Latest filing RADWARE RDWR 9/30/99 Salomon Smith Barney 3.5 million $18 View Chart View Filing Ramp Networks RAMP 6/22/99 BancBoston Robertson Stephens 4 million $11 View Chart View Filing Razorfish RAZF4/27/99 Credit Suisse First Boston 3 million $16 View Chart View Filing […]

There are only two marquee IPOs this week, and for a change neither is an Internet company. But even Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSO) and World Wrestling Federation Entertainment (WWFE) — both of which debuted strong Tuesday — have Internet stories to tell. While the vast majority of revenue for the homemakers’ content and merchandising […]

Five years ago I would have labeled dubious the notion that a Web site enabling people to send free electronic greetings cards over the Internet could, by 1999, fetch $1 billion. But that’s the amount being floated in a Wall Street Journal story about Blue Mountain Arts, a company begun by two flower children in […]

There’s a catfight brewing in the Internet stocks world. It pits former IPO star iVillage (IVIL) against Women.com Networks, which began trading Friday. Offering 3.75 million shares at $10 each, Women.com saw its stock surge to 23 3/8 in early trading. The company’s Nasdaq ticker is (WOMN), and lead underwriter is Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. […]