The dot-com bubble of 2000 is hard for many grizzled investors to forget due to the sudden reversal of investor sentiment and painful losses as high-flying dot-com stocks lost value quickly. Looking ...

Andrew Beattie was part of the original editorial team at Investopedia and has spent twenty years writing on a diverse range of financial topics including business, investing, personal finance, and ...

Defunct e-tailer Pets.com announced Monday that it has signed a non-binding letter of intent to sell its domain name and related trademarks to rival PetSmart.com. Along with the valuable Pets.com name ...

At the turn of the century, he was about as famous as a white ribbed sock could get. Playful, a bit naughty and ever so snarky, the mascot for the San Francisco-based company was voiced by comedian ...

As Twitter debuts on the New York Stock Exchange, Pets.com and its sock puppet mascot remember the anniversary of one of the biggest busts of the dot-com bubble. Dara Kerr was a senior reporter for ...

If you had to pick one really annoying sock puppet to represent the imploded excesses of the dot-com boom, it would be the microphone-wielding mascot of online pet food retailer Pets.com. For a few ...

[Editor's note] Tuesday, we wrote about a startup called PetFlow and drew the obvious comparison between PetFlow and Pets.com. Former Pets.com CEO Julie Wainwright took exception to what we had to say ...

Of all the dot-com brand commercials in the 2000 Super Bowl, Etrade’s was the best. Others were funny, yeah (I mean, “Cat Herders,” amirite?), but Etrade’s dancing monkey was a living embodiment of ...