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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]
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]
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]
MR BOO
Downloads Well, "MR BOO" for your Pocket PC delivers a serious dose of that manic arcade action all over again. Cracking graphics, hilarious music and ear chortling SFX will keep you entertained as you guide MR BOO, eating sweets as you go.
[April 5, 2006, 8:00]
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]
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]
Net retailing shakeout hits Boo.com
News But while Boo claims that the cutbacks are a reflection of the seasonal nature of retailing, analysts are saying that the entire online retailing space is ripe for a shakedown. Boo.com -- which is backed by luxury goods conglomerate LVMH Moet...
[January 27, 2000, 9:02]
Don't cry for me new economy
News We are urged to shed no tears for the 'Boocrew' -- recently "available" former employees of Boo.com, the failed designer clothes etailer. Boo is old news now, the new game in the city is to try and guess who goes to the wall next.
[May 31, 2000, 7:11]
Email Etiquette
White Papers A while back I did a major email boo-boo. Through my own stupidity, I sent out a newsletter to over 200 subscribers via CC (Carbon Copy) instead of via BCC (Blind Carbon Copy). The result was that every subscriber got the newsletter as well as...
[May 11, 2004, 3:15]
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]
Big guns line up against Microsoft
Talkback In one hand these 'opposing' companies are boo-hooing about MS's practices, while at the same time partening with them e.g. I have no sympathy for these companies that cannot work business their own way, oh boo-hoo.
[April 7, 2005, 5:37]
£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]
VoxOx Update
Blog I did finally get past the "boo boo" and get registered. One said that he got registered, but had problems with audio when he tried to make calls, and the other said that he had basically the same "boo boo" problems when trying to register that I...
[November 15, 2008, 14:09]
Startup Spotlight: Hoojit.com
News Hasn't every retail site got a little bit more to offer (er, didn't Boo say that)? 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...
[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]
Symantec sues over 'adware' toolbars
Talkback My only other comment is BOO Lavasoft Ad-Aware, and BOO again for backing down from this internet bully known as Hotbar. While I have quit using Symantec's SystemWorks because I feel it has it's own way of taking over one's computer I have to admit...
[August 31, 2005, 1:45]
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]
