31.   Internet companies, including equipment and access providers and online retailers, snared a record amount of venture capital financing in the first quarter.

32.   Internet companies, meanwhile, are looking for any market that can deliver revenue and keep their businesses afloat as the dot-com consolidation continues.

33.   Internet companies, meanwhile, said their request for a meeting had been ignored.

34.   Internet companies also choose partnerships over deeper equity relationships, he says, because of the uncertain nature of the industry.

35.   Internet companies also face new fees, as do people who have a second phone line at home.

36.   Internet companies are born hot.

37.   Internet companies are buying so much commercial time that they are helping the networks set those new ad-revenue records.

38.   Internet companies are starving for content, and the two struggling companies are aiming to gain more clout by joining forces.

39.   Internet companies there generally are smaller and less established than those here.

40.   Internet companies will be those whose business can be conducted over, or greatly enhanced by, the Internet.