Line of fire: 13 companies that could disappear in the next dot-com crash

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A slew of digital detritus was swept away in the last dot-com crash in 2000. What tech companies could struggle, or even go under, in the next one?

The news last week that nascent Uber rival Karhoo has gone belly-up just a year after it had grubbed $250m in funding has more than a few echoes of the dot-com crash of 2000 - when the five-year fi...

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