John Mulqueen

The stock market evokes the image of a child who has eaten too much chocolate and is running around blowing bubbles, and then smashing them. There were the Amazon.com bubble, the competitive local exchange carrier bubble, the dot-com bubble, the electronic commerce software bubble, the Lucent Technologies bubble, the optical equipment bubble, the Oracle bubble, […]

AOL Time Warner and IBM are proof that elephants can dance. The technology behemoths turned in surprisingly nimble-footed financial performances last week, while younger growth companies Akamai Technologies, EMC and Siebel Systems struggled to meet expectations and warned of slowdowns ahead. IBM said its services business helped drive a 9 percent revenue increase and a […]

Many of technologys most celebrated seers never saw the downturn coming. Now that it has crushed the dot-com world, drained venture capitalists bank accounts and made Cisco Systems look like a tired Old Economy company, the prognosticators are the ones paying the price. Gartner Group became the third major firm to announce layoffs last week, […]

A lot of once-high-flying middleware software suppliers are now wounded ducks in a marketplace rife with acquisitions and mergers. Companies such as Mercator Software, SilverStream Software, Tibco Software and even webMethods are all potential takeover targets, as their stock prices have tumbled along with their revenue growth, said industry experts. Even vendors such as CrossWorlds […]

When Michael Potts wanted to kick off a campaign to reward the employee who made the biggest contribution to Jacada this year, he tooled into the assembly hall on a Harley-Davidson Hog, dressed from head to toe like a biker in leather gear. Not content with that piece of showmanship, Potts, who is president of […]

The aftershock from the financial market explosion will topple scores of venture capital firms this year and for years to come, according to industry executives, who also predict investment could fall 50 percent this year and the industry overall will have negative returns for 2001. Even the stronger funds are investing less money in fewer […]

It does not always pay to be the messenger. Just ask Comtex News Network. Comtex aggregates business and financial news from 70 worldwide sources and 50 partners, and resells that information to 700 customers. The information ultimately gets used on some 1,100 Web sites. As of Dec. 30, 2000, Comtex had been profitable for 19 […]

Global Crossing has one of the flashiest histories in the telecommunications industry. Now, Wall Street is asking top managers to make sure the long-haul carrier isnt just another flash in the pan. Its founder, Gary Winnick, made history in the 1980s as one of Michael Milkens leading bond traders. Winnicks brainstorm to build a worldwide […]

Ask Rick Malone a question and his partner of 15 years, Rosemary Corcoran, will probably answer it. Or vice versa. The two, who own and run Vertical Systems Group, one of the most reliable sources of information about the networking market, have been together so long that it doesnt seem to matter which one of […]

Veteran telecom executive Robert Annunziata is placing his latest bet on making it easier for carriers to get service up and running for their customers. Annunziata now chairs Coreon, a start-up flush with $200 million in venture capital funding garnered in two rounds of funding. The company is preparing to deliver back-office service provisioning, ordering […]