New dot com boom - Saturday Breakfast RN - 14 May 2011 - 0 views
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Vernon Fowler on 12 Jun 11"A decade after the first internet boom bubbled and burst some believe there is another dot.com bubble forming. The money inflows and the enormous valuations - think Facebook at more than 70 billion - have prompted cries of 'bubble'. But many argue that internet business models are far more viable now, and the big money is largely forming around private companies - not public companies - so it is much less likely this time around that ordinary investors will lose their shirts. Another major difference is the international spread of money - of the 25 biggest internet deals in the past year, 15 were non-US investments and 12 were Chinese."