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Photos of the month - February 2007
Photo Students had to go through an eight minute grilling by a panel of experienced business gurus, including Peter Jones of Dragons' Den fame and Martha Lane Fox, co-founder of lastminute.com. Pictured is Thomas Whitfield, co-founder of Design The Time... [01 Mar 2007]
Photos: The business boat race
Photo Pictured here is the panel of judges - including Michael Birch, co-founder and CEO of social networking site Bebo; Peter Jones, entrepreneur and of Dragons' Den fame; and Martha Lane Fox, co-founder of lastminute.com - along with the two-minute... [21 Feb 2007]
Cheat Sheet: Second Chance Tuesday
Cheat Sheet And for all their battle scars there will be plenty of VCs who would like to add the next Amazon, eBay, Google or Lastminute.com to their CV. We're told original founder Julie Meyer - the 'first lady' of the dot-com boom - will be in attendance and... [07 Feb 2006]
Leader: UK innovation - don't knock it
Leader What people are allowing themselves to be blinded by is scale not innovation.lastminute.com is no less innovative than Amazon.com in terms of using technology to create an online business - it is simply smaller. [28 Sep 2004]
The Weekly Round-Up: 07.05.04
Round-Up The Round-Up was saddened last weekend to hear of the serious car accident in Morocco which left lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox seriously injured and in need of emergency surgery. Most of our customers are business people using us for... [07 May 2004]
Spam driving human email evolution
News One of the UK's largest distributors of email newsletters is lastminute.com, which sends its regular HTML email to around 2.8 million subscribers in the UK and a staggering eight million worldwide. A spokeswoman for lastminute.com said: "It's in... [20 Feb 2004]
Lastminute.com reveals lastquarter.profit
News Lastminute.com has announced gross profits for its first quarter of £25m - representing a 128 per cent increase on the same quarter last year. Lastminute.com has recently added more companies to its stable of properties. [12 Feb 2004]
Lastminute.com in £16m Med Hotels purchase
News Lastminute.com recently announced its first annual profits and the departure from a top operational role of co-founder Martha Lane Fox. Lastminute.com has paid just over £16m for Med Hotels, a UK-based holiday reseller. [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, Lastminute.com chairman - as well as Royal Mail chairman and Leeds... [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. Bob Diener, president and founder of Hotels.com, told silicon.com... [16 Oct 2003]
Lastminute.com coming to a TV set near you
News As of today Sky viewers will be able to access lastminute.com's array of travel packages, theatre tickets, restaurant deals and a varied cornucopia of other cut price offers simply by pressing a button on their remote control.lastminute.com co... [12 Jun 2003]
Martha Lane Fox: "The level of abuse was quite unbelievable"
News Lastminute.com co-founder, Martha Lane Fox, has admitted she received thousands of hate emails in the wake of her firm's inflated stock market debut and dramatic dip in share price. Although lastminute.com is unlikely to hit the highs of 380p per... [29 Jul 2002]
Agenda Setters 2002 - winners and losers
Comment Think Amazon's Jeff Bezos (6), easyGroup's Stelios (10), Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker (19) and lastminute.com's Martha Lane Fox (28). It's an undesirable club which contains Intel CEO Craig Barrett as well as that company's founder and... [28 Apr 2002]
Peter Cochrane, co-founder, ConceptLabs
News Lastminute.com has been quite successful. Peter Cochrane is a respected futurologist, columnist, former BT CTO and serial entrepreneur, known for creating 13 companies including ebookers.com - away from his day job. [04 Jan 2002]
Lane Fox says: 'You underestimated me'
News Lastminute is even beginning to talk openly about the 'P' word (ie.profitability - see http://www.silicon.com/a46626 ), and was recently named the UK's most popular travel site, beating the likes of EasyJet and RyanAir. [19 Nov 2001]
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