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To: jrinvestor who wrote (71231)	6/7/2001 4:38:32 PM
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Dot-com death toll still rising By Reuters June 6, 2001, 2:05 p.m. PT The Internet sector kept hemorrhaging in May, as 54 companies shut down, bringing the total of dot-coms turned dot-bombs to at least 493 since January 2000, according to Webmergers.com, an online marketplace that tracks Internet business activity. The San Francisco-based online hub for buyers and sellers of Web properties also noted that 55 percent of all dot-com failures--or 269 companies--since January 2000 came in the first five months of this year. Tim Miller, president of Webmergers.com, told Reuters ... news.cnet.com