"Is this another dotcom bubble?" That was the question posed recently when an Australian miner became a backdoor to public-equity markets for a 'cloud-solutions' company that apparently has some exposure to mining companies. The more pertinent question is: "What's changed since the last one?" And the short answer is, a lot! In its latest 'tech start-ups' expose this week, The Economist magazine says the new dotcom era - and explosion of digital product start-ups around the world - is "different, in an important way". 'Today's entrepreneurial boom is based on more solid foundations than the 1990s internet bubble, which makes it more likely to continue for the foreseeable future," the magazine said. The foundations include "cheap and ubiquitous building blocks for digital products and services".
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