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    MCI Inc. (redirect from Worldcom)
    when WorldCom filed for bankruptcy. Citigroup settled with Worldcom investors for $2.65 billion on May 10, 2004. In March 2007, 16 of WorldCom's 17 former...
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  • scandals such as WorldCom and Enron. WorldCom, by then renamed MCI, was acquired by Verizon Communications in January 2006. "Worldcom, Inc. 2002 Form 10-K...
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    Worlds.com, or Worlds Chat is an online chat program launched by Worlds Inc in April 1995. Worlds.com was the first program made available for the general...
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  • accountant who formerly served as the Vice President of Internal Audit at WorldCom. In 2002, Cooper and her team of auditors worked together in secret and...
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    ISBN 9781460289952. "WorldCom Timeline". Fox News. Associated Press. August 8, 2002. Landler, Mark (August 27, 1996). "Worldcom to Buy MFS for $12 Billion...
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    MCI Communications (category Pre–World Wide Web online services)
    an integral part of the Internet backbone. The company was acquired by WorldCom (later called MCI Inc.) in 1998. MCI was founded as Microwave Communications...
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    within WorldCom after being combined with AOL's network subsidiary, ANS, and an existing WorldCom networking company named Gridnet. In 1999, Worldcom acquired...
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    dot-com crash, many online shopping companies, notably Pets.com, Webvan, and Boo.com, as well as several communication companies, such as Worldcom, NorthPoint...
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  • officer, secretary, treasurer, and a board member of WorldCom, who was convicted as part of WorldCom's $3.8 billion accounting fraud, at the time the largest...
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  • October, MCI Worldcom announces its intentions to buy Sprint for $129 billion. 2000 – The European Commission and DOJ denied the MCI WorldCom / Sprint merger...
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  • accounting practices for energy company Enron and telecommunications company WorldCom were revealed amid the two high-profile bankruptcies. The scandals were...
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  • September, 1998 MCI was acquired by WorldCom after they made a better offer for the company. Actually, the WorldCom offer was nearly identical to the BT...
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  • through 2010, it was sponsored either by MCI (under both the "MCI" and "WorldCom" names) or its eventual purchaser, Verizon. The tournament operated without...
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    Catastrophe, published in 2001. Boo.com was intended to become the largest online sports e-retailer in the world, planning to set up stores in both Europe...
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  • Yahoo! (redirect from Www.yahoo.com)
    "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!" and became known as the Yahoo Directory. The "yahoo.com" domain was registered on January...
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  • Broadcast.com was an Internet radio company founded as AudioNet in September 1995 by Cameron Christopher Jaeb. Todd Wagner and Mark Cuban later led the...
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    alleged that the WorldCom Retirement Plan administrators were WorldCom insiders who knew or had reason to know that the price of WorldCom stock was artificially...
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  • Pets.com was a dot-com enterprise headquartered in San Francisco, U.S, that sold pet supplies to retail customers. The website was launched in November...
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  • Retrieved 17 July 2015. "WorldCom : About WorldCom". Archived from the original on 1 April 2002. Retrieved 17 July 2015. "WorldCom New Zealand Ltd (research...
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    host a Fortune 500 company, was the headquarters for WorldCom from the mid-1990s until 2002. WorldCom went bankrupt due to what was at the time the largest...
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    atrea.com. "Spanish Net IPO price raised - Nov. 12, 1999". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 2022-09-03. "Lycos in $12.5B deal - May 16, 2000". money.cnn.com. Retrieved...
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  • Worldcom Public Relations Group is an international network of independently owned public relations firms, with 112 integrated communications agencies...
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  • other online travel players. WAYN, the world's largest social travel network, has been integrated with lastminute.com group's new media business and aims...
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  • Lycos (redirect from Lycos.com)
    one of the first profitable Internet businesses in the world. In 1998, Lycos acquired Tripod.com for $58 million in an attempt to "break into the portal...
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  • Kozmo.com was a venture-capital-funded online company that promised free one-hour delivery of "videos, games, DVDs, music, mags, books, food, basics &...
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  • not achieve widespread use. Although companies anywhere in the world can register com domains, many countries have a second-level domain with a similar...
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  • Startup.com is a 2001 American documentary film directed by Jehane Noujaim and Chris Hegedus. D. A. Pennebaker served as a producer on the film. It follows...
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  • UUNET. In August 1996, WorldCom announced the acquisition of the company and the transaction was completed in December 1996. Worldcom filed bankruptcy in...
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    (versions 5.2–7.2) in load-balanced clusters in data centers run by AT&T, Worldcom and the now defunct Exodus Communications. It was one of the first massively...
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    number of major corporate and accounting scandals, including Enron and WorldCom. The sections of the bill cover responsibilities of a public corporation's...
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