Internet Business

Jenni Hunt is an attractive, talented and ambitious professional from Portland, Oregon. She runs her own Internet business, selling on online auction site eBay and advising others how to navigate the site to gain maximum profits. Jenni, 36, is also a full-time mother who home-schools her kids. Superwoman? Perhaps. But Jenni is one of an increasing number of stay-at-home moms who are using the Internet to have it all. Jenni was a high-tech Silicon Valley marketing executive when, in 1999, she gave up work to look after her baby boy. She had her second child in 2002, and it was then that she discovered eBay.

Well, not exactly. ;Its a lot harder than I thought, said Mike Kurt, one of the founders of eMacsoftware.com.;Kurt, along with Steve Organ and Tony Guerrero are having the time of their lives and hanging on to their business by their keyboards.;Every day were just amazed that were staying alive and making it happen, said Organ.;Last year, Kurt, Organ and Guerrero decided to launch their own dotcom company, a business selling Macintosh software over the Internet.;I just wanted to do my own thing, said Organ.

Its anthem The Internet Will Save Us went flat after the recent correction in global tech stocks. Hong Kong found itself at the center of much of the drama. It was where Softbank vicepresident Kitao Yoshitaka launched an aria of insult against rival Internet investment house Hikari Tsushin and its CEO Shigeta Yasumitsu. At a March 10 press conference to introduce Softbanks local operations, Kitao bluntly stated I hate everything Shigeta does. What he is doing is just copying what Softbank does.

Such a pledge by the WTOs 132 member nations would certainly suit computer companies such as Microsoft and Cisco Systems, as well as fastgrowing Internet content providers such as Yahoo and Netscape. Undisputed masters of todays online universe, American firms naturally hate to see their preserve cluttered with protectionist barriers and fees. But should Asia go along After all, many of its nations are struggling to bankroll both fledgling informationtechnology industries and modern telecommunications networks.

ASIAWEEKTechnologyWeekly news about technology in Asia;Evesting Not a Punters ParadiseAsia is still building up its arsenal of online investment information, but the facts can be found by clicking around 10199;Is It That EasyA bunch of Internet companies think they can outdo China.com 73099;DotComs High RollersAs Internet stocks boom, capital floods Asias hightech startups 72399During a visit to mainland China in 1995, Charles Zhang was struck by the enormous potential of information technology.

by Laura Rich ; IDG It used to be that if you were a yahoo, you were boorish and crass. Nowadays the term is associated with one of the Internets most successful companies. Today, being a yahoo is a positive thing. Still, is it what you would want on your business card ; ;;MORE COMPUTING INTELLIGENCEnIDG.net home pagenIndustry Standard home page nIndustry Standard email newsletters nIndustry Standard daily Media Grok nIndustry Standard financial newsnReviews indepth info at IDG.net nIDG.

by James Niccolai ; SAN FRANCISCO IDG While the electroniccommerce spotlight has fallen mostly on products aimed at big businesses, the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas next week will play host to a wealth of new offerings designed to allow smaller companies to set up a storefront on the Web.;Outofthe box ecommerce packages for small and midsize businesses will represent a fastgrowing market in the coming year, said Chris Shipley, editor of DemoLetter,...

Stelios Haji-Ioannou does not call EasyGroup, his rapidly growing collection of low-price companies, an Internet business. To him it's more about economics. Each of his firms -- first EasyJet, a hot European airline; then the EasyCar rental and EasyInternetcafe chains; and, in the works, EasyCinema --competes only in industries in which lower prices will cause consumers to buy more, more often. But Stelios (his nom de biz) is almost obsessed with technology, and only the Internet Age could have allowed him to give birth to his businesses.

"We want to position ourselves as one of the best mid-sized cities to locate your IT or Internet business," says J.P. Nauseef, manager of e-business services for Deloitte & Touche. Nauseef directs something called the "I-Zone" in Dayton, Ohio -- it's a consortium of business leaders working to make the city a new magnet for information-technology careerists. Outside the city limits, few may be aware that Ohio's fourth largest urban center historically has generated a spirit of entrepreneurial risk-taking and innovation.

Could the Internet cause another depression? Will policymakers flummoxed by the new paradigm make the same mistakes that contributed to the last one? Will defeated venture capitalists soon be selling apples out on Sand Hill Road?Michael J. Mandel raises this prospect in his concise and provocative new book, The Coming Internet Depression. The title is a bit inaccurate; the book might be better named The Distinct Possibility of a Protracted Internet-Inspired Downturn. But don't be fooled by the hype.

Jenni Hunt is an attractive, talented and ambitious professional from Portland, Oregon. She runs her own Internet business, selling on online auction site eBay and advising others how to navigate the site to gain maximum profits. Jenni, 36, is also a full-time mother who home-schools her kids. Superwoman? Perhaps. But Jenni is one of an increasing number of stay-at-home moms who are using the Internet to have it all. Jenni was a high-tech Silicon Valley marketing executive when, in 1999, she gave up work to look after her baby boy. She had her second child in 2002, and it was then that she discovered eBay.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou does not call EasyGroup, his rapidly growing collection of low-price companies, an Internet business. To him it's more about economics. Each of his firms -- first EasyJet, a hot European airline; then the EasyCar rental and EasyInternetcafe chains; and, in the works, EasyCinema --competes only in industries in which lower prices will cause consumers to buy more, more often. But Stelios (his nom de biz) is almost obsessed with technology, and only the Internet Age could have allowed him to give birth to his businesses.

"We want to position ourselves as one of the best mid-sized cities to locate your IT or Internet business," says J.P. Nauseef, manager of e-business services for Deloitte & Touche. Nauseef directs something called the "I-Zone" in Dayton, Ohio -- it's a consortium of business leaders working to make the city a new magnet for information-technology careerists. Outside the city limits, few may be aware that Ohio's fourth largest urban center historically has generated a spirit of entrepreneurial risk-taking and innovation.

Could the Internet cause another depression? Will policymakers flummoxed by the new paradigm make the same mistakes that contributed to the last one? Will defeated venture capitalists soon be selling apples out on Sand Hill Road?Michael J. Mandel raises this prospect in his concise and provocative new book, The Coming Internet Depression. The title is a bit inaccurate; the book might be better named The Distinct Possibility of a Protracted Internet-Inspired Downturn. But don't be fooled by the hype.

Its anthem The Internet Will Save Us went flat after the recent correction in global tech stocks. Hong Kong found itself at the center of much of the drama. It was where Softbank vicepresident Kitao Yoshitaka launched an aria of insult against rival Internet investment house Hikari Tsushin and its CEO Shigeta Yasumitsu. At a March 10 press conference to introduce Softbanks local operations, Kitao bluntly stated I hate everything Shigeta does. What he is doing is just copying what Softbank does.

Well, not exactly. ;Its a lot harder than I thought, said Mike Kurt, one of the founders of eMacsoftware.com.;Kurt, along with Steve Organ and Tony Guerrero are having the time of their lives and hanging on to their business by their keyboards.;Every day were just amazed that were staying alive and making it happen, said Organ.;Last year, Kurt, Organ and Guerrero decided to launch their own dotcom company, a business selling Macintosh software over the Internet.;I just wanted to do my own thing, said Organ.

ASIAWEEKTechnologyWeekly news about technology in Asia;Evesting Not a Punters ParadiseAsia is still building up its arsenal of online investment information, but the facts can be found by clicking around 10199;Is It That EasyA bunch of Internet companies think they can outdo China.com 73099;DotComs High RollersAs Internet stocks boom, capital floods Asias hightech startups 72399During a visit to mainland China in 1995, Charles Zhang was struck by the enormous potential of information technology.

Such a pledge by the WTOs 132 member nations would certainly suit computer companies such as Microsoft and Cisco Systems, as well as fastgrowing Internet content providers such as Yahoo and Netscape. Undisputed masters of todays online universe, American firms naturally hate to see their preserve cluttered with protectionist barriers and fees. But should Asia go along After all, many of its nations are struggling to bankroll both fledgling informationtechnology industries and modern telecommunications networks.

by Laura Rich ; IDG It used to be that if you were a yahoo, you were boorish and crass. Nowadays the term is associated with one of the Internets most successful companies. Today, being a yahoo is a positive thing. Still, is it what you would want on your business card ; ;;MORE COMPUTING INTELLIGENCEnIDG.net home pagenIndustry Standard home page nIndustry Standard email newsletters nIndustry Standard daily Media Grok nIndustry Standard financial newsnReviews indepth info at IDG.net nIDG.

by James Niccolai ; SAN FRANCISCO IDG While the electroniccommerce spotlight has fallen mostly on products aimed at big businesses, the Comdex trade show in Las Vegas next week will play host to a wealth of new offerings designed to allow smaller companies to set up a storefront on the Web.;Outofthe box ecommerce packages for small and midsize businesses will represent a fastgrowing market in the coming year, said Chris Shipley, editor of DemoLetter,...