What's an e-tailer to do when it's one of the worst performing initial public offerings of 2000, Wall Street isn't interested and the competition is intense? If you're Pets.com, you make use of your ...

Here's a mashup of C-SPAN footage wherein the Pets.com sock puppet seeks a bailout for tech. You already know this if you read our "Tech Bubble 1.0 Stars: Where Are They Now?," but the Pets.com sock ...

The search is over. The ultimate symbol for the meteoric rise, painful fall and slow, strange resurrection of the dot-com empire has been found. Starting next month, the one-time Pets.com sock puppet ...

Sales of kibble were slow for the short-lived Pets.com online pet supplies retailer, but the lovable sock puppet that starred in the company's commercials was a winner - and it may have a future ...

The great, unlamented mascot of Pets.com and the tech bubble, Sock Puppet, comes to Congress with a paw out for taxpayer money and inadvertently suggests a way forward through the current moment that ...

People said she was the biggest joke in the valley. Her company was deemed “stupid.” As for her career? She wondered if it was over. It’s been 16 years since Julie Wainwright shut down Pets.com, the ...

If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. Learn more. Snap, Crackle and Pop, the purveyors of Rice Krispies' good cheer, are just pen-and-ink corporate shills. And ...

P ets.com will never rest in peace. Every time someone wants to invoke the specter of a brand-new tech bubble, they inevitably namedrop the ill-fated late '90s e-tailer. Case in point, yesterday's ...

People said she was the biggest joke in the valley. Her company was deemed “stupid.” As for her career? She wondered if it was over. It’s been 16 years since Julie Wainwright shut down Pets.com, the ...