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Twelve years ago, a total of $5 trillion in market value was lost when the "Dot-com" bubble burst. Many investors lost their life savings, their kid's college funds, or their retirements as a result.

Flash-forward to today, and I'm convinced many investors are running the risk of making the same mistake that caused those trillions of dollars in losses a decade ago.

Let me explain...

You've undoubtedly heard about the new multi-billion dollar "Web 2.0" companies like Groupon, Zynga, LinkedIn and Facebook. The mainstream financial press can't get enough of them...

For the past several months, investors have been blindly throwing money at these companies.

Take Zynga for example. Zynga is up 25% since it started trading back in December... but the company doesn't even turn a profit .

In fact, Zynga has lost $400 million during the past year. The firm's net loss came out to $1.40 per share... or more than 10% of its current share price.

LinkedIn (Nasdaq: LNKD ) , a social-networking site for professionals, is up slightly since going public . But it's been a wild ride. The stock trades at a P/E over 800.

G roupon (Nasdaq: GRPN ) doesn't even have a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio... because it has no earnings . In the past year, the company has lost $350 million or $0.97 per share.

Facebook -- considered to be the "hottest" of all these companies -- hasn't gone public yet. At this point, we can only guess what sort of enormous valuation it might see. Estimates are calling for a valuation of $100 billion. With net income of $1 billion in 2011, that means the stock could sell for 100 times earnings.

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23-03-2012 08:45 Leading central bank officials from around the world gather Friday and Saturday in Washington to assess the impacts of their easy money policies at a research meeting being convened by the Federal Reserve. One of the conclusions they're likely to draw: Controversial "quantitative easing" policies are likely to be a continuing weapon in their monetary arsenals as long as global growth is so weak. Plus, Ben Bernanke says low rates did not cause the housing bubble.

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LoveFilm, the Amazon-owned movie rentals firm, has today announced that demand for its digital streaming service has surpassed physical DVD rentals for the first time.

The company said that its subscribers streamed more content to connected devices in February than requested rentals of DVDs, Blu-rays and video games.

Demand for digital streaming over physical copies has led LoveFilm to state that it is now a "predominantly streaming business", raising question marks over the future of the DVD operation.

LoveFilm, which launched a streaming-only service called LoveFilm Instant last year, said that the number of films and TV episodes streamed online through internet-connected devices is now exceeding demand for physical copies by 20%.

Digital streaming demand in February was up a staggering 400% year-on-year, although the rental of physical products also increased by 25% year-on-year.

Jim Buckle, the new managing director of LoveFilm following the resignation of chief executive Simon Calver, said that the growth in demand for digital is expected to continue.

"The first quarter of 2012 has shown us two things: that LoveFilm members are watching more films and TV series both on the internet and on DVD than ever before and; in less than three years, streaming through LoveFilm Instant has become more popular than renting DVDs," he said.

"Our members crave instant on-demand access. With more world-class digital content being added to LoveFilm Instant and a growing number of internet-connected devices delivering it to members' living rooms we expect this trend to continue.

"At the same time, many of our members continue to enjoy the combination of LoveFilm Instant and LoveFilm By Post in one, great value for money, subscription, with both services growing rapidly."

LoveFilm now has more than 2m subscribers across Europe, accessing a range of movies such as The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Source Code and soon the acclaimed Tinker Tailor Solider Spy.

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