E-Commerce

"Is their life in e-commerce?" The Economist February 3rd 2001:19-31
Many .com's have bit the dust this year due to the markets uncanny ups and downs. This is bad to have such ups and down's because when we do not avoid them inflation and deflation can occur like the great depression in the 1930's. Many .com's this year paied out the big bucks for 30 seconds of meyham for this years-annual Superbowl. Some companies are still doing well like Yahoo! who has grown 100 times the billion dollars it was worth last spring. Amazon.com is another company that shot up quickly also gave up two facilities and laid off a thousand workers, but still promised profit before the years close(note:amazon has yet to make a profit). A so does this means that amazon.com is a wise decsion to invest in? Well it was operating profit not net profit that amazon.com was promising. Yes, and no because when looking at both sides having profit will allow them to grow, but not nearly at the pace that was implied when they started. …