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USWeb

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. In September 1998, the company announced that it would merge with CKS; it became USWeb/CKS. In late 1999 the company announced that it was being acquired by Whittmann-Hart, a Chicago-based internet consultancy. On March 1, 2000, the combined company was renamed marchFIRST, Inc. It went bankrupt in 2001.

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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. In September 1998, the company announced that it would merge with CKS; it became USWeb/CKS. In late 1999 the company announced that it was being acquired by Whittmann-Hart, a Chicago-based internet consultancy. On March 1, 2000, the combined company was renamed marchFIRST, Inc. It went bankrupt in 2001.

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 1995 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of foundation is "1995". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  4. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341138935

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.