Europe's dot.bombs

摘要

Recent events have not been encouraging for Europe's crop of once optimistic Internet start-ups. They include such spectacular collapses as that of boo.com, a spendthrift electronic sports-goods retailer that met impressive standards of corporate extravagance while blithely losing a bundle. This week clickmango, an online health-care business, became the latest of a string of such dotcom casualties. Clickmango's weekly sales had reached the glorious heights of £2,000 ($3,000), a small fraction of the £25,000 it was spending every week to stay in business.