David Lee, a managing partner at SV Angel, an angel investment firm, doubted that consumers would immediately embrace a shift as radical as wearing a computer in fancy eyewear.
Her scheme began to unravel after a clerk in the firm doubted a claim on her application that she was 29.
Chet Wisniewski, senior security adviser at Sophos, a Web security firm, doubted the arrests would have an effect on the number of online banking scams.
DESPITE the millions of dollars that Larry Ellison, the boss of Oracle, has spent pursuing PeopleSoft, a rival business-software firm, doubts about the sincerity of his hostile bid have lingered.
Energy-trading companies reduced dealings with the firm; doubting its creditworthiness, some forced Enron to pay higher prices for natural gas and other products or required it to post large cash deposits to back trades.
When firms doubt whether the euro is going to remain legal tender, then firms hesitate to invest — even in Germany".
A collection of web services would take the place of a travel agent using the phone or the fax: try to get another flight, book new ground transport, perhaps reserve a hotel room.Some software firms doubt that this hyper-flexible world of web services will come to pass any time soonYet some software firms doubt that this hyper-flexible world of web services will come to pass any time soon.
And there is more to come: although exuberance about the internet sector's growth prospects has lifted the shares of many firms, doubts are growing about the ability of some to continue their impressive winning streaks.
Because Core has an existing show on HGTV, it might put his future with the firm in doubt.
Of course, things could turn out differently this time, but even some analysts at Cohn's firm, Goldman Sachs, doubt that will happen.
