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Startup Spotlight: boo.com
News First there was Niketown, now there's boo.com. And the fancy coding techniques mean that the site is, for now, unavailable to Macintosh users.boo's defence has been that it, unlike other online retailers, is catering to high-end shoppers rather...
[December 8, 1999, 16:34]
Boo.com may face DTI probe
News Boo.com may face an investigation by the Department of Trade and Industry(DTI), according to reports. Business Web site Thisismoney.com said the DTI is considering investigating how Boo managed to run through £85m in venture capital investment in...
[June 20, 2000, 9:20]
Boo.com is resurrected
News Boo.com, which was originally an online fashion retailer when it fell into liquidation in 2000, has been relaunched as a social networking and travel booking site, using user-generated content to help travellers decide which hotels to book.
[May 2, 2007, 16:09]
Boo.com fires 220, lastminute loses altitude
News Dot com startups continued to struggle Tuesday, as Boo.com's liquidators laid off most of the company's staff and the share price of travel site lastminute.com hit a new low.lastminute bottomed out at 122.5p Monday, less than a third of its...
[May 23, 2000, 11:30]
Net retailing shakeout hits Boo.com
News Officials at high-end clothier Boo.com confirmed Wednesday that the company was laying off employees and revamping its Web site -- the latest online retailer to feel the pinch after the holidays. Boo.com -- which is backed by luxury goods...
[January 27, 2000, 9:02]
Halloween relaunch for Boo.com
News E-commerce casualty boo.com, which was the first big UK startup to call in liquidators, will be relaunched on 30 October. Boo.com went into liquidation during the dot-com slump in May after failing to raise £20m for a restructuring plan.
[October 10, 2000, 10:18]
£74m sportswear startup hits cyberspace
News Boo.com, one of the most keenly anticipated UK Net startups, launched Thursday, selling sportswear designed to appeal to the urban hipster. Boo plans to market hip gear to markets where it has been scarce -- for example, selling London brands to...
[November 4, 1999, 12:16]
Jane Wakefield: Oh Boo - where did it all go wrong?
News The staff and investors of the UK's first dotcom collapse Boo.com will have good reason to be crying into their frappucinos this morning as the money runs out on an Internet company barely six months old.
[May 19, 2000, 11:48]
Startup Spotlight: Ybag.com
News Ybag.com sees itself succeeding where boo.com failed with an unusual e-commerce model: Ybag.com lets consumers request goods via the Internet and then invites retailers to tender their best deals for the products.
[May 26, 2000, 16:13]
Startup Spotlight: Hoojit.com
News This may be starting to sound very much like the model for boo.com, but ZDNet was reassured that this will just be a sideline once the second generation search engine is operational, expected by autumn.
[June 6, 2000, 10:41]
netimperative.com bites the dust
News Its collapse, coming only days after high-profile sportswear site boo.com called in the liquidators, is bound to add to the feeling that the Internet gold rush is over. I don't think boo.com is a special case," said Nick Ward, head media analyst at...
[May 22, 2000, 11:37]
A Year Ago: Netimperative.com bites the dust
News Its collapse, coming only days after high-profile sportswear site boo.com called in the liquidators, is bound to add to the feeling that the Internet gold rush is over. I don't think boo.com is a special case," said Nick Ward, head media analyst at...
[May 22, 2001, 6:28]
Dot-com stars shine brightest before they die
News Boo.com's spring closure predated the vast majority of dot-com failures, and its demise became a convenient analogy for articles about the likely deaths of other e-tailers. Online fashion mall Boo.com won top billing as "brightest flameout" of 2000...
[February 28, 2001, 11:37]
Roundup: Dot-com downturn - where do companies go from here?
News Boo.com's remains help stoke up UK Web search tool Wed, 28th Jun 2000 Bright Station unveiled a souped-up Internet search engine on Wednesday, to be fed at first from the remains of fallen online retailer Boo.com.
[August 31, 2000, 13:05]
Jane Wakefield: Dreaming of an e-Christmas
News This could all be changing -- sites dedicated to women, like handbag.com and charlottestreet, are boosting the online buying experience and sites like boo.com are doing their best to come up with new techniques to persuade us that online buying...
[November 26, 1999, 15:37]
2000 Roundup: The dot-com bubble pops
News The first and most high-profile UK collapse was the newly-launched luxury sportswear site Boo.com, but the closures accelerated throughout the year. 2000 will be remembered as the year the dot-com bubble finally burst.
[January 1, 2001, 6:16]
Broadband tipped to relight dot-com dreams
News Pearson's argument is illustrated by the example of Boo.com. Boo.com allowed customers to zoom in on different parts of a product and dress mannequins in different outfits, but this technology required a high-speed connection that few of its target...
[March 3, 2004, 14:50]
Letsbuyit.com sets debut amid dot-com blues
News Jaco says the company will continue to thrive, unlike more flashy services such as failed e-tailer Boo.com, because it is spending money wisely and is run by experienced staff. Others won't be so lucky, however: "Boo has gone and others will...
[July 4, 2000, 10:47]
Ignore the broadband boom at your peril
Leader This totally changes what you can offer in terms of e-commerce -- even the ill-fated Boo.com might have fared better if consumers had had the fat pipes needed to access its jazzy, high-bandwidth retail offering.
[September 23, 2004, 12:00]
Europ@web flotation called off
News LVMH, the luxury conglomerate chaired by Arnault, was one of the investors in failed e-commerce site Boo.com. The move comes amid growing caution from investors about throwing money at dot-com companies; however, Europ@web insists it isn't in need...
[June 22, 2000, 7:10]
