Amazon.com, Yahoo!, Google and eBay are examples of dot-com companies. Telecom companies that offer voice or video services over the Internet also fit into the dot-com company umbrella.

While SanDisk was founded in 1998, it was in 2000 that the company began to focus on flash memory, which it is now one of the most prominent suppliers of. Thankfully, SanDisk survived the dot-com ...