Archive - 22 Nov 2000
VitaGO's health fails
Online healthcare retailer VitaGO is to close its Italian operations and put its UK business up for ...
Oftel: Customers ring the changes on directory enquiries
Oftel has announced that the directory enquiry service, worth £175 million last year, will go under ...
L&H dismisses disgraced head of South Korean arm
Troubled speech recognition company Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) tonight banned its suspended South Korea...
silicon.com launches the ultimate guide to ASPs
silicon.com has launched an in-depth guide to ASPs, providing everything you need to know about ASPs...
Nasdaq dips on presidential news
US technology market Nasdaq opened sharply down today after last night's decision to extend hand cou...
SMEs no e-laggards
So small businesses are still having trouble getting to grips with the internet?
Energis shares take a dive
Energis shares took a battering today following confirmation that Wanadoo is in talks with Freeserve...
Logica makes a 'bold move' into B2B exchanges
Logica has jumped into the B2B exchanges market in a £38m deal with the National Grid for two subsid...
'Content no longer king' says Reuters boss
Online companies specialising purely in content production are doomed, according to Reuters CEO Pete...
Invensys spin off boosts share price
Baan parent Invensys has seen an eight per cent rise in its share price following the announcement t...
SMEs 'cynical about the hype' of ecommerce
Over half of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK do not see the benefit of, or even u...
DoCoMo to acquire $9bn stake in AT&T Wireless
DoCoMo is reported to be offering approximately $9bn for more than a 15 per cent share in AT&T Wirel...
Nordic ally adds to BT's woes
The privatisation of BT's first overseas ally, Norwegian telco Telenor, has thrown the two companies...
Big businesses still ignore virus alerts
British businesses are still failing to grasp the importance of internet security and network availa...
ASPs threaten future of IT departments
Almost half of IT directors are worried the growth of ASPs will be the death of the in-house IT depa...
Lucent finances wrong again
Lucent has announced its fourth quarter results are to be downgraded, prolonging the flawed financia...
LSE shareholders favour alliance over merger
LSE shareholder group Apcims has announced its members favour an alliance option, rather than a merg...
Fourth quarter decline reflects a poor year for Novell
Struggling network software company Novell has reported a sharp decline in both turnover and profit ...
French UMTS contest loses Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom will not take part in the French UMTS beauty contest, claiming participation would ...
Internet proves a lucrative lobby in US election
Lawyers cost money and both US political parties have turned to the internet to raise cash for the l...
Commerce One signs e-procurement deal with Perot Systems
Commerce One has signed a deal with Perot Systems to provide a hosted e-procurement service for comp...
Freeserve shares fly high with Wanadoo takeover talk
Freeserve's shares have soared on the back of news that it is in takeover discussions with French ri...
VAT harmony hailed by PwC
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) has welcomed moves to harmonise VAT regulations across the EC, saying i...
Merger creates £6bn giant for unified messaging
Mobile phone software firm Phone.com and messaging company Software.com have merged to form a $6bn c...
Freeserve for sale, Redstone rethink and Lucent accounts query
This morning's Financial Times reports on a proposed, all stock, £1.8bn bid by the France Tel...
The Directors' Cut: David Taylor says get headhunted - again and again
Of all the career-related questions I'm asked, the most frequent by far is "how can I attract the in...
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