1999

Remember the giddy year of 1999, when many of us were convinced we were entering the new millennium and everyone was panicking about the Y2K bug? During the subsequent decade, the stock market made us rich as kings, then poor as church mice. We've taken a look back to see how the years have...

Ryan Jacob was arguably the most popular mutual fund manager a decade ago when, while still in his 20s, he ran one of the few funds focused on internet stocks. Kinetics Asset Management's Internet Fund was the best performing U.S. equity fund in 1998, enjoying a 198 percent return. It rose over 500...

URL address shortening Website tr.im will no longer be providing the service to the public because there's no money to be made. Makes you wonder how other URL shortening companies can survive. "There is no way for us to monetize URL shortening -- users won't pay for it -- and we just can't justify...