1990s

Facebook IPO is flashback to dot-com class action

25 May 2012

This is not the first time investors in a hot tech company's initial public offering have alleged that underwriters favored their regular clients at the expense of the little guys. In the tech bubble of the late 1990s, IPO investors became suspicious of the steep run-up in prices that seemed inevitably to follow a stock's debut. Eventually, some 309 IPO shareholder class actions were rolled into ...

Kidney Stone Rate Nearly Doubles in 16 Years

25 May 2012

Kidney stones are nearly twice as common now as they were in the early 1990s, according to a new study.

David Kushner’s ‘Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto’

25 May 2012

In the late 1990s, a crew of young video-game designers found themselves worried that their latest project was going to be a flop. In the new game, players were supposed to take on the role of police officers, chasing down thugs across the streets of a small virtual city. Technically, the software worked well enough, everyone on the team agreed, but there was still one little problem: The game ...