 Overland
No More
The highly successful yet non-money-making
Overland Explores.com shut its doors yesterday. "We just
couldn't affort the outrageous hosting costs required to serve
up the thousands of high-res photos we've recently scanned..."
said Brian, Overland co-founder. "But we will be back when
we find cheaper alternatives!"
When: 4/17/2002
Company: Overland Explorers.com
Severity: 100 - new hall of fame inductee!
Points: 200
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yo
Hey... sorry for the somewhat-sparse updates this week... i'm
on the book tour
right now (woohooo! pics coming soon!) and am currently going
from city to city with about 4-hours in each hotel, in which
i choose to sleep. Right now I'm in the San Francisco airport,
early for my flight to Seattle, so I'm trying to update the
site on one of these shitty Internet terminal email thingies
with little rubber keys and some whacked-out browser. and it
costs fifty-cents per minute..... i'll give it a shot tho. ack
this takes forever to type.... but ROCK ON!
When: 4/16/2002
Company: Fucked Company
Severity: 35
Points: 126
150
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 Seat
In case you haven't heard, some of the guys at Furniture.com
are giving iy another go.... teaming up with Levits and Seaman's...
actually a good idea I think -- just charge enough for shipping
this time, you fuckwads! werd up tho
When: 4/16/2002
Company: Furniture.com
Lucked: 50
Points: 144
58
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QuestionThank
Rumor has it consuntancy, Answerthink, will -- at the end of
the week -- cease operations for the "IM" group -- which was
once my alma-mater, Think New Ideas.
When: 4/16/2002
Company: Answerthink
Severity: 75
Points: 175
36
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Who's
gonna turn off the lights?
Rumor has it iBuyer.com
just laid everyone off, with one-week severance and the "option"
to work for free "until" things pick up.
When: 4/16/2002
Company: iBuyer.net
Severity: 100 - new hall of fame inductee!
Points: 200
20
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Put
your head between your legs
Jetstream.com ceased operations... i think there's an article
somewhere on News.com, but i cant copy-n-paste on this stupid
airport Internet teminal, so find it your own damn self...
When: 4/16/2002
Company: Jetstream.com
Severity: 100 - new hall of fame inductee!
Points: 200
12
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Commerce
None
Rumor has it, today, the axe will fall, taking 40% to 45% of
Commerce One
staff to a better place......
When: 4/15/2002
Company: Commerce One
Severity: 80
Points: 179
248
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Pubic
Rumor has it Natioanl Public Radio (NPR) has decided to dump
almost all it's live music programming -- what little their
was. I would imagine most people couldn't give a shit.
When: 4/15/2002
Company: Natioanl Public Radio
Severity: 5
Points: 105
195
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Minus
Rumor has it Addison
just laid off a bunch of people, mostly employees in the interactive
media department. Word is the company will no longer do interactive
work -- and will focus on print design (yes firms still do this).
150 employees to just 25 -- and and dwindling.
When: 4/15/2002
Company: Addison
Severity: 90
Points: 190
35
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Newsflash
Rumor has it PR Newswire has begun carrying out a nine-month
planned consolidation of its NYC and NJ editorial, fax and client
services operations. The former "Global Operations" center from
NJ will combine with that of NYC. Also, word is a new round
of layoffs are in the works....
When: 4/15/2002
Company: PR Newswire
Severity: 35
Points: 135
12
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Jesus
Religion site, Beliefnet.com, filed
bankruptcy.
When: 4/15/2002
Company: Beliefnet.com
Severity: 100 - new hall of fame inductee!
Points: 200
84
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remember
that other Quicksilver that make tiny courdory shorts?
Rumor has it Quicksilver
Technology, a purveyor of reconfigurable computing cores
(or at least wannabes), and one of Red Herring's top ten companies
to watch in 2001, laid off 40%.
When: 4/15/2002
Company: QuickSilver Technology
Severity: 55
Points: 155
13
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oh
boy
Rumor has it Lucent is about to axe another 5,000. Sucks, but
it's probably not enough... ack
When: 4/15/2002
Company: Lucent
Severity: 35
Points: 128
22
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Basket
weaving
Interwoven closed
their Austin office,
When: 4/15/2002
Company: Interwoven
Severity: 65
Points: 165
58
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Maxxed
Looks like Maxtor's about to layoff a bunch, according to this
memo sent to employees...
When: 4/12/2002
Company: Maxtor
Severity: 45
Points: 145
145
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Burned
So... classic NYC web shop, Oven,
officially closed shop for good. All employees laid off with
no pay.
When: 4/12/2002
Company: Oven
Severity: 100 - new hall of fame inductee!
Points: 199
213
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Nappy
Napster just laid off 30 more people......
When: 4/12/2002
Company: Napster
Severity: 95
Points: 179
60
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Dumb
Rumor has it 30% are about to go at Smartforce.com
When: 4/12/2002
Company: SmartForce.com
Severity: 45
Points: 145
38
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right
Rumor has it all Tonbu
employees were told to go home on a "leave of absence" until
more funding (magically) comes through........
When: 4/12/2002
Company: Tonbu
Severity: 95
Points: 195
48
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Busy
So AT&T is rockin the old reverse
split...
When: 4/12/2002
Company: AT&T 
Severity: 25
Points: 122
45
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Salon.com
isn't amused by my book. shocking.
So this Salon.com writer, Damien
Cave, wrote an article about FC a while ago saying that
Fuckedcompany is gonna run out of companies to write about.
I replied,
explaining that while my site may suck ass (I'll the first one
to admit it...), he's wrong. Anyway, he got all huffy and today
emailed me a link to his nasty
review of my book. Meanwhile, considering the source and
what my book's about, I consider a bad review from pissed-off
Salon.com as an endorsement...
When: 4/11/2002
Company: Fuckedcompany.com
Severity: 50
Points: 141
381
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Unlicensed
After several rounds of layoffs and at least one faked "closure"
(so they could screw employees in that round out of vacation
and severance), License
Online has finally gone chapter 11.
When: 4/11/2002
Company: LicenseOnline.com
Severity: 100 - new hall of fame inductee!
Points: 200
71
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Wheelhose
Rumor has it Wheelhouse
just executed their nineth round of layoffs -- 33% of the company,
bringing the headcount down to 50 from 75. Word is, included
in this round was the CEO, HR VP, and NYC VP. The company had
212 employees in January 2001.
When: 4/11/2002
Company: Wheelhouse
Severity: 90
Points: 190
44
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Vital
Rumor has it Vitria
is about to layoff 20%, going down to 800 people.
When: 4/11/2002
Company: Vitria
Severity: 35
Points: 135
35
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gonna
be shocked (har har)
Just a quicky... most shareholders don't seem to realize that,
word is, Con Ed Electric and Gas has invested somewhere around
$80 million in a fiber network start up, "Con Ed Communications",
that has few customers and seems to be going the way of most
other fiber startups....
When: 4/11/2002
Company: Con Ed
Severity: 25
Points: 125
15
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Exit
Enterasys announcement
acually drove the stock price up... luck? nah
When: 4/11/2002
Company: Enterasys
Severity: 35
Points: 135
13
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Schisser
German PPV failed.
When: 4/11/2002
Company: KirchMedia
Severity: 100 - new hall of fame inductee!
Points: 200
18
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none
Rumor has it ThoughtWorks
laid off 10% today -- 30 people.
When: 4/11/2002
Company: ThoughtWorks
Severity: 50
Points: 150
101
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aa
anonymous... whatever
As I said last week, 7K laid
off at AA. okay fine i was off by 1000. feh
When: 4/9/2002
Company: Arthur Andersen
Severity: 90
Points: 189
402
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City
Under Seige
Rumor has it MyCity.com
will announce Chapter 7 sometime this week or next...
When: 4/9/2002
Company: MyCity.com
Severity: 100 - new hall of fame inductee!
Points: 200
44
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tommy
pud
Rumor has it Tommy Hilfiger USA told employees no raises this
year, depite spending more than $250,000 on a two-hour fashion
show last week at their 39th St. building. my guess is cuz they
cashed in on the whole "hi i look like an idiot because i'm
wearing huge logos and baggy pants" trend which is died faster
than leisure suits. but the worst are those huge raver pants.
ack
When: 4/9/2002
Company: Tommy Hilfiger USA
Severity: 20
Points: 120
102
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