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RSS greenLastminute.com gets investor green light for £59m deal
News The combined company will have a total turnover of £64.1m and an estimated gross profit of £10.3m. Dégriftour has an estimated customer base of 250,000. Lastminute.com will pay £27.1m in cash, of which £5.9m is payable after one year, as... [26 Sep 2000]
Car parts exchange gets FTC green light
News The web marketplace, founded as a joint venture between Daimler Chrysler, General Motors and Ford is the largest of such marketplaces to go before the regulators, and has been seen as a test case for the B2B industry. [12 Sep 2000]
CIO wanted, no experience necessary: the IT skills shortage
Comment Denmark is having to rethink its long-held anti-immigration stance while the German government faced a backlash in March after it announced a scheme to give 20,000 green card visas to non-EU IT specialists. [30 Aug 2000]
NTT gets all clear for $5.5bn US acquisition
News Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo has been given the green light by the FBI to proceed with its $5.5bn acquisition of US web-hosting firm Verio. Although details have not been released, US officials say NTT and the FBI have... [11 Aug 2000]
EU sets benchmark with first e-marketplace ruling
News The European Commission has given the green light to B2B (business-to-business) marketplace MyAircraft.com. In the first European ruling of its kind the commission adjudged "the operation would not give rise to... [07 Aug 2000]
Vivendi succumbs to anti-monopoly ruling
News Vivendi Universal will have to relinquish control over Canal Plus in order to obtain the green light for the Vivendi-Seagram merger. Under pressure from the audiovisual regulators CSA, Vivendi Universal has agreed to... [26 Jul 2000]
Ananova out of sync with the future of the web?
Comment The Press Association (PA) developed a green-haired, female avatar called Ananova to deliver news, sports and entertainment information to visitors at http://www.ananova.com . Orange has bought a virtual newsreader for... [05 Jul 2000]
Ecommerce shunned by two-thirds of UK execs
News Anna Green, spokesperson for Microsoft, said: "These people need to pull their heads out of the sand and look around. Two-thirds of the UK's business leaders are not deploying an ecommerce strategy because they do not... [16 May 2000]
UK schools profit from £40m software give-away
News The reduced tariffs were given the green light by telecoms regulator Oftel, today. More than 23,000 schools in the UK will be given free software this spring as part of a £40m give-away by Time Computers and ISP Supanet. [26 Apr 2000]
MobilCom-France Telecom deal gets green light
News The German Federal Cartal Office has approved a joint venture between MobilCom and France Telecom, created to launch a bid for a UMTS licence. The bid will be made under the MobilMultimedia name and if successful will allow the companies... [26 Apr 2000]
France Telecom confirms interest in Orange
News The EU gave the hostile takeover a conditional green light providing Vodafone relinquishes Orange - which was bought by Mannesmann last year. France Telecom has confirmed it is interested in buying Orange following the... [13 Apr 2000]
Mannesmann acquisition given green-light by EU
News UK mobile operator Vodafone AirTouch has received conditional clearance from the EU for the $180bn acquisition of German company Mannesmann. Under the terms of the award, the company will have to fulfil a number of requirements before... [12 Apr 2000]
Fourteen companies get access to BT's local loop
News Fourteen cable operators - rivals to BT - were yesterday given the green light by Oftel to install their DSL equipment in BT's exchanges. The UK's first unbundled local loop will go on trial early next year in Belfast,... [06 Apr 2000]
Online trade law talks break down
News MEPs were yesterday due to give the green light to a report by Liberal Democrat MEP, Diana Wallis, which proposes trade disputes over refunds and misleading advertising should be settled out-of-court. [30 Mar 2000]
NTL and CWC £8.2bn merger approved
News Cable operator, NTL, has received a green light by the UK Competition Commission (CC) for its £8.2bn merger with Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC). Commission secretary Stephen Byers said today he doesn't expect... [23 Mar 2000]
