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| America Online |  | America Online
22000 AOL Way
Dulles, Virginia 20166 | 2000 Sales: $6,886,000,000
2000 Earnings: $1,232,000,000
www.aol.com |
America Onine still dominates the internet in the U.S. with almost 30 million subscribers It is one of the few companies that can really hold its ground against Microsoft. And now it has purchased Time-Warner making whole new kind of media company. See Close-up... | | Amazon.com |  | Amazon.com
1516 Second Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98101 | 2000 Sales: $2,762,000,000
2000 Earnings: $-1,411,000,000
www.amazon.com |
Amazon is the giant of internet ecommerce. Starting out as the first online book store and offering millions of titles online, the company has subsequently expanded into just about every category, thus becoming the Walmart of the internet. Pictured is Amazon's original headquarters in downtown Seattle See Close-up... | | Prodigy |  | Prodigy
445 Hamilton Ave.
White Plains, New York 10601 | 2000 Sales: $376,000,000
2000 Earnings: $-209,000,000
www.prodigy.com |
The internet company that was in it from the beginnnig, but never really made it. The company has simply become an isp with 600,000 subscribers. The company was started by IBM, Sears and CBS in 1986. See Close-up... | | Network Solutions |  | Network Solutions
505 Huntmar Park
Herndon, Virginia 20170 | 2000 Sales: $Subsidiary
2000 Earnings: $
www.networksolutions.com |
Located in Herndon Virginia, Network Solutions is the company that issues domain names (www.yourname.com) to everyone on the internet. They sell, .com, .org, .net and .edu names. 4 million domain names have been registered so far. See Close-up... | | CMGI |  | CMGI
100 Brickstone Sq.
Andover, Massachusettes 01810 | 2000 Sales: $898,000,000
2000 Earnings: $-1,364,000,000
www.cmgi.com |
Located in the classy prep school town of Andover Massachusettes, CMGI is one of the original and great internet companies. As a venture capital firm, they have funded 30 internet start-ups, the most of famous of which are Lycos and GeoCities. See Close-up... | | Doubleclick |  | Doubleclick
41 Madison Ave.
New York, New York 10010 | 2000 Sales: $505,000,000
2000 Earnings: $-156,000,000
www.doubleclick.com |
See Close-up... | | RealNetworks |  | RealNetworks
1111 Third Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98101 | 2000 Sales: $241,000,000
2000 Earnings: $-110,000,000
www.realnetworks.com |
Located in Seattle Washington, Real Networks was the first company to offer streaming audio over the internet. Now the company also offers streaming video and has a major portion of the internet market share. However the company is now going head-to-head with Microsoft's Media Player. See Close-up... | | Lycos |  | Lycos
400-2 Totten Pond Rd.
Waltham, Massachusettes 02154 | 2000 Sales: $Subsidiary
2000 Earnings: $
www.lycos.com |
Lycos is one of America's top 5 internet portals located in Suburban Boston Massachusettes. Lycos remains independent and continues to expand its services through acquisitions. See Close-up... | | CDNow |  | CDNow
610 Old York Rd.
Jenkintown, Pennsylvania 01810 | 2000 Sales: $147,000,000
2000 Earnings: $-119,000,000
www.cdnow.com |
This is the home of CDNow, which is now merged with N2K and headquraterd in New York City. Although CDNow has definitely had some success in this venture, it has been forced to merge with its rival N2K because the giant Amazon.com decided to start selling CD's one day. See Close-up... |
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