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World Service,02 Mar 2010,10 mins

Dot Com Bubble

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Ten years ago the prices of internet and technology shares reached an all-time high, and then they crashed. Stephan Paternot ran a social networking startup company which had made tens of millions of dollars on paper. Then everything started to go wrong as the dot com bubble burst.

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