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QXL.com Reveals Floatation Details
News The floatation, announced earlier this month, is one of an estimated 25 "dot com" offerings lined up in the next few months, following the lead of free Internet service provider Freeserve, which made a successful debut earlier this year.
[September 21, 1999, 11:22]
Egg Floatation? Warm Reception From Analysts
Talkback how do you make the egg floatation
[April 1, 2005, 16:30]
Egg Floatation? Warm Reception From Analysts
News It is thought the Prudential may try to cash-in on current enthusiasm for Internet stocks illustrated by Freeserve's market evaluation last week. Lance Close, senior analyst at Mintel research, believes this could be an unwise move for Prudential.
[July 30, 1999, 16:57]
TechTrader: Ebookers.com, Baltimore In Nasdaq Floats
News Two European Internet groups brought out floatation plans Wednesday -- but the London Stock Exchange won't have anything to do with them.ebookers.com, founded by the businessman who started the Flightbookers chain of travel agents 16 years ago...
[October 28, 1999, 10:38]
Startup Spotlight: Iglu.com
News Do you have any plans for a stock market floatation? We plan to announce a floatation in a year's time. It's the world's largest on-line ski travel service and provides exclusively signed accommodation to all winter sports fanatics.
[December 2, 1999, 13:10]
Lastminute.com Shares Sink
News Shares of lastminute.com, which surged on their debut on Tuesday, sank in morning trading today closer to their floatation price. By mid-morning, the shares, which launched at 380p, had dropped from a Tuesday high of around 532.5p to about 400p.
[March 15, 2000, 10:00]
EasyScreen Set For £20m Float
News UK-based EasyScreen said Thursday it will attempt to raise £20m in shares through a floatation on the London Stock Exchange. The company, which makes software for financial institutions, would be via an institutional placing and would give the...
[October 15, 1999, 14:08]
Letsbuyit.com Sets Debut Amid Dot-com Blues
News The latest high profile dot-com to fall victim of wary investors and a gloomy market is Letsbuyit.com which has been forced to launch its long-delayed floatation at a drastically reduced price. Letsbuyit, which opened its first site in Sweden in...
[July 4, 2000, 10:47]
Saatchi Startup Stakes Webmedia
News Co-founder Steve Bowbrick confirmed that Webmedia will look for a public floatation, possibly as early as the first quarter of 1997. For Webmedia, the investment provides over £200,000 capital for expansion beyond its current 40-plus staff and spin...
[August 29, 1996, 16:47]
Lastminute.com Off To Flying Start
News By midday they had settled to around 502p, and they closed at 465p.lastminute.com has said that 188,995 private investors had logged onto the Web site in the run-up to floatation to apply for shares. One of Britain's largest Internet flotations got...
[March 14, 2000, 9:05]
Analysts Shrug Off Freeserve Share Drop
News The drop has attracted disproportionate attention because Freeserve, as the UK's first major technology share floatation, was hailed as the beginning of a US-style high-tech boom when it debuted earlier this year.
[September 21, 1999, 13:37]
Lastminute.com Flotation Wows Market
News The site, which sells off unused inventory such as package holidays, flights and consumer products at cut-rate prices to impulse buyers, has said that 188,995 private investors had logged onto the Web site in the run-up to floatation to apply for...
[March 14, 2000, 16:53]
Funmail Flotation To Raise £5m For Projects
News Dixon's Freeserve, which finally announced its intended floatation last week, is facing fresh competition from Sun newspaper ISP CurrantBun. The flotation will raise around £5m for a "number of different projects" according to Dominic Morley...
[July 5, 1999, 15:09]
Online Estate Agent Plans Stock Market Float
News If Rightmove's floatation is successful, it could encourage other survivors of the dot-com crash to consider a stock market flotation. Online property site Rightmove is planning to float on the London stock market in March.
[February 17, 2006, 16:35]
RFID Industry Set For Alien Invasion
News The fallout from the floatation could also impact on other fledgling RFID businesses. The IPO of RFID kit maker Alien Technologies, announced last week, will be a mixed blessing for the industry, Gartner has predicted.
[April 24, 2006, 16:05]
Freeserve Makes E-commerce Gains
News In terms of our floatation we clearly said the potential of the Net will be exploited through e-commerce and we're getting there. Maybe there is money to be made on the Web after all. Freeserve this week announced it is, for the first time, making...
[September 29, 1999, 16:36]
Powernet Lays Off Staff With Spam
News Powernet Telecom postponed a £600m floatation earlier this year, which was to create 500 new jobs in the next 12 months. ISP network provider Powernet Telecom called in police Friday to disperse angry staff as it fell victim to the new telecoms...
[October 2, 2000, 15:08]
BIBLE: Best Of British
News A possible floatation is set for the end of November, though the company has refused to comment on the reports. NewsNow Founded last year by technical consultant Struan Bartlett and Nick Gilbert, a film-biz veteran and technology journo, NewsNow is...
[November 10, 1999, 13:40]
Latest Bid Could See BT Split Up
News The floatation of BT Wireless is expected to start next month. A consortium backed by a German bank has offered to buy BT's fixed-line business -- leading to suggestions that the telco is close to breaking up.
[August 7, 2001, 12:05]
UK Net Startups Not Scared By Freeserve Plummet
News The share drop has attracted disproportionate attention because Freeserve, as the UK's first major technology share floatation, was hailed as the beginning of a US-style high-tech boom when it debuted earlier this year.
[September 21, 1999, 16:17]
