Matt Ragas

The last of the Mohicans. That’s a good description of independently held e-network About.com . Is About.com the next bride-to-be? That’s a question that investors and About.com CEO and chairman Scott Kurnit have to be asking themselves these days. A quick survey of the Web landscape quickly reveals that next to the likes of Yahoo! […]

The e-music sector remains littered with competition and high profile lawsuits. Has LAUNCH Media found the winning formula for digital music success? LAUNCH Media CEO and chairman David Goldberg sure thinks so. While other e-music players remain focused on morphing into online record labels and digital download providers, LAUNCH is content to blaze its path […]

Can Web hosting services become an effective cross selling platform for an interactive design and consulting firm? That’s what Xpedior CEO David Campbell is about to find out. With the mid-June closing of the merger between business focused ISP PSINet and Metamor Worldwide , an IT solutions company, Xpedior became an 80% owned subsidiary of […]

Quietly hovering below radar. That appears to be the never-ending story of Web network operator Go2Net . Even with straight five quarters of profitability under its belt and a high profile minority investor in Paul Allen’s Vulcan Ventures, Wall Street appears to barely acknowledge its existence. Go2Net CEO and chairman Russell Horowitz does a good […]

As the market’s love affair with everything B2B appears to have come to a screeching halt, a handful of established consumer Internet names appear poised to regain investor confidence. This is all music to the ears of Sportsline.com CEO Mike Levy. Founded back in 1994, e-sports network Sportsline stands as one of the real grand […]

The market hates uncertainty. Plain and simple. Perhaps nowhere is this tried and true adage more apparent right now then in the digital music stocks sector of the Internet investment universe. Check out a 52-week chart of any digital music stock lately. The valuation melt down continues. The current high profile lawsuits being waged by […]

Is FatBrain.com a low margin books e-tailer, a b-to-b information management solutions provider or an emerging digital publishing machine? Take your pick. The answer to this question still appears unresolved for FatBrain shareholders. While the company’s roots lie in hawking technical manuals and books to corporate users, FatBrain has emerged in the past two years […]

Almost without thinking, Net stock investors immediately chunk Net stocks into two separate piles today – either business-to-consumer (b-to-c) or business-to-business (b-to-b). In fact, judging by the continued collapse in valuations among e-tailers, one could even get the initial impression that b-to-c e-tail has become almost a dirty word. At the very least, it is […]