Archive - 30 Nov 2000
£30m: The cost of survival for QXL
Online auctioneer QXL was today thrown a £30m lifeline by backers Credit Suisse First Boston to carr...
Transmeta chip failure behind NEC recall
Japanese firm, NEC has been forced to withdraw 284 laptops amid fears they contain faulty Transmeta ...
German owners pull Thomson's funding for holiday site
Thomson's German owners have pulled the plug on the travel agents' site, Travelchest.com, leaving it...
Heal's moves its product range online
Furnishings and homeware retailer Heal's is pumping £500,000 into its ecommerce operations.
Housing benefit? Tailored high-tech office space comes to London
Whether we're talking dot-com boom or gloom, there always appears to be lack of suitable premises fo...
DoCoMo deal will overthrow Europe's mobile advantage
NTT DoCoMo's acquisition of a 16 per cent stake in AT&T Wireless will drive the use of iMode in the ...
Telenor warned over 'illegal' IPO
Norwegian telecoms group, Telenor could find its proposed flotation ruled illegal.
Web advertising spend soars
Internet advertising spend grew by 226 per cent in the first half of this year from 1999, outstrippi...
Picture imperfect: Virus spreads via graphics attachments
Computer Associates claims to have discovered a computer virus that searches and sends graphic files...
High tech office space comes to central London
Dot-com firms will be moving back into the centre of London if top property and venture capitalists ...
Material world: Fabric trade gets e-marketplace
Fine textiles are going online in one of the biggest old economy B2B exchanges and markets.
Sun sees the whole of the moon with cluster upgrade
Sun Microsystems is set to release an upgrade to its clustering software for sharing jobs across sev...
Siebel launches next generation ebusiness apps
Ebusiness applications and services provider, Siebel Systems has extended its application line by in...
E-tail sales defy 'gloom' merchants
Retail ecommerce is still growing sharply, both in the US and Europe, despite the gloom that has des...
Lernout & Hauspie files for bankruptcy protection
Belgian high-tech firm Lernout & Hauspie (L&H) has filed a Chapter 11 petition for re-organisation p...
Publisher puts critics online
UK book publisher Blackwell has bought web content management tools to create an online book review ...
NTT DoCoMo confirms AT&T purchase
Japan's NTT DoCoMo has confirmed long running speculation that it plans to buy 16 per cent of AT&T W...
Orange misses out on Norwegian 3G licence
The Norwegian government yesterday announced the winners of its beauty contest for 3G mobile licence...
Online banking, Orange is a 3G loser and concerns grow at Sema
The Guardian reports that the long-awaited and oft-postponed internet banking service from th...
IR35: Keeping the Inland Revenue off your back... part two
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European dot-coms bloom in spite of dot-gloom
The European dot-com industry is shrugging off dot-doom, with well over half of online businesses al...
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