USWeb

USWeb
Founded1995; 29 years ago (1995)
Founders
  • Joe Firmage
  • Toby Corey
  • Sheldon Laube
Defunct1999 (1999)
FateAcquired by Whittman-Hart

USWeb was an interactive design agency founded in 1995 by former Novell executives Joe Firmage, Toby Corey, ken Campbell, Jim Heffernan and Sheldon Laube during the dot com bubble. USWeb made its first public offering on the NASDAQ exchange in late 1997.[1] In September 1998, the company announced that it would merge with CKS;[2][3] it became USWeb/CKS. In late 1999 the company announced that it was being acquired by Whittmann-Hart, a Chicago-based internet consultancy.[4]

On March 1, 2000, the combined company was renamed marchFIRST, Inc. It went bankrupt in 2001.[5][6]

  1. ^ "USWEB CORP (USWB) IPO". NASDAQ.com. Retrieved August 31, 2023.
  2. ^ Pelline, Jeff; Kawamoto, Dawn (September 2, 1998). "USWeb, CKS Group to merge". CNET. Archived from the original on January 19, 2013. Retrieved August 31, 2023.
  3. ^ Harmon, Steve (September 4, 1998). "Short & Long Of It: USWeb's $350M Stock Swap For CKS". InternetNews.com. Archived from the original on October 19, 2004.
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  5. ^ "CKS Group (USWeb/CKS; marchFIRST)".
  6. ^ "USWeb looks to weave a success story". CNET. Retrieved August 31, 2023.