31 January 2001

  • Amazon sets up trust fund for laid off workers.
  • Andreessen's LoudCloud gets rained on like the rest of us.
  • AOL/TW posted earnings that exceeded the street's expectations.
  • The dream is over: Sega kills Dreamcast and will now produce software.
  • Sony applies to build an Internet bank, backed by Sakura Bank & JP Morgan.
  • To cut costs, Charles Schwab asks its employees to leave for a day or two.
  • Private scientist group vows to clone a human in the next two years; cost anticipated: $50,000.
  • Amazon cuts 1,300 jobs and promises a profit in the fourth quarter.
  • Concrete cuts thirty percent.
  • Mixing drugs with the Aluminum Group.
  • John Gielgud was "a silly emotional gubbins."
  • Screens from the past: The Museum of E-Failure.