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 ...

At the turn of the century, he was about as famous as a white ribbed sock could get. Playful, a bit naughty and ever so snarky, the mascot for the San Francisco-based company was voiced by comedian ...

The most famous dog from the Web – the celebrated sock puppet from Pets.com – is going back to work pitching car loans to bad credit customers. The black-and-white sock pup had been the star of Super ...

There’s trouble in the world of funny dog puppets.Triumph and Sock Puppet are snarling at each other in a San Francisco courtroom. The happy hands inside them seem to be clenched into fists.Pets.com, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — It wasn’t his first job choice, but at least the Pets.com sock puppet hasn’t joined the high-tech unemployment line. One of the most recognizable icons of the dot-com era has a new ...

If you wanted the failure of your dot-com to go unnoticed, yesterday was a great time for the bad news to hit the papers. But I’m afraid that I just can’t let the passing of Pets.com slip by unnoticed ...

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 ...

Bitcoin over $100k, the market’s rotation, and elevated consumer sentiment all point to an acceleration of new AI and crypto trends in 2025. Going by the percent change in the S&P 500 sectors last ...

Fools never learn. No matter how many times I repeat that there's no sock puppetry-- posting under multiple names -- allowed here on DANGER ROOM, some half-wit goes ahead and does it again. So say ...