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Breathe.com gets a new owner

After being bought out by Great Universal Stores early this year, Breathe.com has now been bought by Internet service provider Affinity Internet Holdings... Read more

11 June, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

News Burst: Breathe.com gasps its last

The Internet service provider Breathe.com collapsed under a load of £50m in debts last week, and... Read more

18 December, 2000 by Matthew Broersma

Breathe to launch unmetered offer

...after it was saved from the scrap heap by Great Universal Stores, Breathe.com is to launch a new unmetered Internet access service. Breathe shut... Read more

26 February, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

Fate of Breathe hangs in the balance

Future of UK's sixth largest ISP remains unclear Read more

27 March, 2001 by Will Knight

GUS resuscitates Breathe

Argos owner vows to take troubled ISP out of sick ward with £1.4m deal Read more

8 January, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

Breathe.com: The latest high profile failure

...dot-com woe in the pages of today's papers reports that Breathe.com has breathed its last - and given rise to as many plays... Read more

18 December, 2000 by Will Sturgeon

Breathe.com left winded by unmetered mess

Internet service provider Breathe.com has been forced to withdraw its £50 offer of a lifetime... Read more

11 December, 2000 by Chris Holbrook

Breathe.com re-animated

...good deals... Web technology-consultancy Affinity Internet Holdings has re-launched ISP breathe.com with a revamped website, a choice of ISP Packages and mobile... Read more

30 August, 2001 by Justin Madubuko

GUS breathes life into ISP

...to save at least 80 of the 140 jobs at collapsing ISP Breathe.com. Breathe, valued at over £60m last year, went into administration with... Read more

9 January, 2001 by Ron Coates

Freeserve targets AOL and BT

...the sluggish approach of unmetered, however, with ISPs such as RedHotAnt and Breathe.com rushing out loss-making unmetered services which helped them into bankruptcy... Read more

24 January, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

RedHotAnt may offer refunds

...towards the Internet sector, leading to the demise of companies such as Breathe.com and IG Click. However, none have so far offered refunds. RedHotAnt... Read more

23 January, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

2001 -- the year ahead

...companies. Craze starts among Japanese schoolchildren for collecting 'fucodoco', with ownership of Breathe.com changing hands up to twenty times a day in Kyoto playgrounds... Read more

8 January, 2001 by Rupert Goodwins

2000 Roundup: The dot-com bubble pops

...ISPs who tried to go flat-rate ended up flatlining instead, including Breathe.com, which expired in December.) A bigger problem was that Freeserve's... Read more

1 January, 2001 by Matthew Broersma

breathe offers cheap bundled WAP surfing

UK ISP breathe.net which will change its name to breathe.com next week, is to launch a combined ISP/WAP offering with... Read more

6 April, 2000 by Justin Pearse

Affinity on the up

...for the year. The web to mobiles company - known for buying ISP Breathe.com and offering branded mobiles to football clubs - sold nearly 200,000... Read more

31 January, 2002 by Tony Hallett

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