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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]
lastminute.com sees record profit
News Dot-com darling lastminute.com has turned in a solid performance for the third quarter and is now back in the black, according to results out today. Subscriber numbers are also up, with over 7.5 million individuals receiving the lastminute.com... [05 Aug 2003]
lastminute.com lands 3 deal
News Mobile operator 3 has signed a deal with lastminute.com that will allow travellers to search for and book holiday bargains using their mobile phones. The new service will be hosted by lastminute.com and it is the first time content will be prepared... [28 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 lastminute.com's array of travel packages, theatre tickets... [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 another dimension to the travel offering of lastminute.com, which... [26 Mar 2003]
Lastminute.com offers jobs channel
News Lastminute.com continues to branch out into new areas with the announcement today that it has added a recruitment channel to its popular consumer website. Using back-end technology from partner jobs site New9to5.com, lastminute.com claims to be... [22 Dec 2005]
Lastminute.com charges £27m for four night hotel stay
News In a week that has seen wrongly priced products on the web hitting the headlines, a shocked holidaymaker from London was surprised to see that Lastminute.com had charged him more than £27m for four nights in a hotel when booking a trip to Venice... [21 Mar 2003]
Lastminute.com staff face job cull
News Online travel firm lastminute.com is aiming to cut costs by axing 70 staff despite claiming last week that it will report a profitable quarter in November. A spokesman for lastminute.com told the Sunday Times: "There's going to be employees who'll... [23 Sep 2002]
Lastminute.com launches speech recognition services
News Lastminute.com has launched a voice-automated service to let customers book selected hotels listed on its site by phone. The service is based on VoiceXML and Lastminute.com is claiming this is the first consumer application to use both advanced... [09 May 2002]
Lastminute.com and rivals.net in with a sporting chance
News Lastminute.com has struck a reciprocal marketing deal with rivals.net to publicise sports offers from both companies. Lastminute.com will have links to its sites on all relevant Rivals Digital Media websites including Football365.com, PlanetF1.com... [12 Apr 2002]
Lastminute.com still on share price high
News Shares in lastminute.com were this morning enjoying a further flutter into the green after it announced its £12m acquisition of profitable travel company The Destination Holidays Group. Earlier in the week lastminute.com took a £2.4m share in... [14 Jun 2002]
Lastminute.com beefs up its back-end
News Lastminute.com is beefing-up its website in an attempt to cope with an anticipated 400 per cent growth in visitor numbers. In the last year, lastminute.com has increased the number of subscribers to its newsletter by 60 per cent. [04 Mar 2002]
Lastminute.com to offer financial services
News Martha Lane Fox, COO at Lastminute.com, said the joint venture is the first in a series of links with third party providers to offer Lastminutes' 2.1 million customers ISAs, loans and travel insurance. [12 Mar 2001]
Lastminute.com gets investor green light for £59m deal
News Lastminute.com will pay £27.1m in cash, of which £5.9m is payable after one year, as well as 19.7 million shares in lastminute.com. Brent Hoberman, CEO of lastminute.com claimed the deal achieved the type of presence in the French market that would... [26 Sep 2000]
lastminute.com slides further under the covers with Microsoft
News Lastminute.com has deepened its alliance with Microsoft by becoming the first firm in the UK to use Microsoft's .NET technology to push out pro-active alerts to customers. In a statement, Mark Greatorex, director of .NET at Microsoft UK, said the... [19 Dec 2001]
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