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Tony Hallett's After These Messages: Time to travel
Comment While a host of online travel companies have fallen by the wayside and there are still those who predict a bid for Lastminute.com by a more old-fashioned travel beast -... [13 Apr 2004]
Martha Lane Fox sells £4.6m of lastminute shares
News Dot-com darling Martha Lane Fox has sold two million shares in lastminute.com - the company that she co-founded with Brent Hoberman in 1998. Lane Fox stepped down from her position as MD... [09 Mar 2004]
Lastminute.com splashes out £55m on OTC
News Serial-acquirer lastminute.com has detailed the terms of its latest purchase - a £55m bid for the Online Travel Corporation (OTC). The all-shares deal would see... [03 Mar 2004]
lastminute.com Adopts Microsoft .NET Technologies To Enhance Communication With Customers
White Paper Dedicated to providing its customers with online travel and entertainment solutions, lastminute.com has adopted Microsoft’s dynamic .NET Framework and XML Web Services to enhance its... [25 Feb 2004]
Online travel giants battle to be web favourite
News The research, from internet watcher Nielsen NetRatings, revealed that expedia.co.uk, not lastminute.com, may well be the UK leader in online travel shopping. According to new research... [29 Jan 2004]
Lastminute.com in £16m Med Hotels purchase
News Lastminute.com has paid just over £16m for Med Hotels, a UK-based holiday reseller. The price of £16.1m will be made up of £8m in cash - and the balance, which could increase depending on performance... [03 Dec 2003]
Lastminute.com's first annual profits but Lane Fox off
News Lastminute.com has turned in its first annual profit but announced co-founder and one-time dot-com darling Martha Lane Fox is to take more of a back seat role. Allan Leighton,... [20 Nov 2003]
Travel dot-com bucks downturn
News The UK site is backed by a £7m marketing campaign launched this week and Hotels.com will need it if it is to take on lastminute.com, which recorded record profits back in August. US... [16 Oct 2003]
Dot-coms have grown up - get used to it
Comment Today lastminute.com reported healthy results (though how it says its profits went up 141.2 per cent to £1.6m when the corresponding quarter a year earlier saw a £4m loss we don't know) and yesterday... [05 Aug 2003]
lastminute.com sees record profit
News Subscriber numbers are also up, with over 7.5 million individuals receiving the lastminute.com newsletter, 34 per cent of whom went on to buy from the online leisure and travel... [05 Aug 2003]
ebookers breathes new life into tourism with strong results
News More good news is expected for the online travel sector over the next couple of days, with UK dot-com darling lastminute.com set to unveil its results, which are... [04 Aug 2003]
lastminute.com lands 3 deal
News The new service will be hosted by lastminute.com and it is the first time content will be prepared and published on the 3 network independent of the operator itself.s customers will be able to browse... [28 Jul 2003]
Will's Web Watch: A standing ovation for lastminute.com
Comment Last week I was booking tickets for the theatre on lastminute.com. The internet is about community and lastminute.com is a site which trades on its community feel. It... [07 Jul 2003]
Lastminute.com coming to a TV set near you
News Lastminute.com has signed up with Sky Digital to provide its travel and entertainment ticket services to shoppers using interactive TV. As of today Sky viewers will be able to access... [12 Jun 2003]
Lastminute.com pays £40m for reality TV 'car wreck'
News UK online travel site lastminute.com has bought car rental firm Holiday Autos for £40m. Holiday Autos - the subject of a particularly unflattering reality TV show last year - adds... [26 Mar 2003]
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