Chris Nerney

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It’s getting downright nasty in some of the online stock chat rooms. Investors are at each others’ throats as the sharp downturn in Internet stocks that began about three weeks ago shows no signs of reversing. If you’re holding long on a stock that’s falling fast, you’re called a sucker by gloating short-sellers. If you’re […]

Maybe they hadn’t heard the news in the Far East. That could explain why Internet Initiative Japan decided to go public on Wednesday, one day after the worst beating of the year – and perhaps the worst day ever – for Internet IPOs. But the bold – some would say foolhardy – move may pay […]

At this point you have to take Excite@Home (ATHM) President George Bell’s word that there is no truth to the rumor his newly combined company has been in talks with rival Yahoo! (YHOO) regarding a deal in which Yahoo! would purchase Excite for $17 billion. Too bad, because a union of the No 2. and […]

Summer sell-offs and short rides be damned, the Internet IPOs just keep coming: More than 20 ‘Net companies are slated to launch stock offerings this week. You read correctly. This week, not this month. And right after a stunning flurry last week (11 IPOs in three days) that enabled July to set a record for […]

Perhaps more than any other publicly traded Internet company, Amazon.com represents to investors the vast potential rewards and risks of the cyber-economy. When the market is bullish on the Internet as a catalyst for transforming the economy and creating wealth, shares of the online retailer’s stock soar. This happened in April, when AMZN became one […]

There were enough moonshots sprinkled into the Internet IPOs launched in the latter half of July to make it seem as though the ‘Net IPO market was unaffected by the recent slump in Internet stock prices. But a closer look reveals that the performance of Internet IPOs in the suffered along with the rest of […]

N2H2 wants to be known as the Internet guardian and portal for K-12 students in schools across North America and worldwide. But it also wants to expand into the corporate and home markets. And it plans to introduce an alternate subscription-service revenue model that would bring commercials and advertising into the schools in return for […]

Two weeks ago I didn’t think it would be possible, but a torrid second-half pace has put July in a long-shot position to break the record set in June for most Internet IPOs in one month. With two companies – Net2Phone and Perficient — beginning trading Thursday, we will have seen 28 Internet IPOs in […]

The company had no revenues last year, and didn’t even open a Web site until last February. But online health and beauty products retailer drugstore.com was bred for this day since its inception in April 1998. Fueled by the buzz surrounding its declarative, branding-friendly domain name — as well as backing from e-tailing giant Amazon.com, […]

For the first time since late February, shares of online auction giant eBay fell below $100 Tuesday morning, just one day after the online auction company reported a 70 percent drop in profits during a quarter marred by several serious technical outages. But it’s hard to argue that the market is punishing eBay for the […]