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FTSE 100 losing the search battle
News Research by search marketing company The Search Works has found that 64 percent of FTSE 100 companies' Web sites don't rank in the first page of search results for keywords, which could see them losing the 90 percent of would-be buyers who never...
[February 22, 2005, 15:20]
Autonomy likely to be ousted from FTSE 100
News Autonomy, the software company that created the UK's first software billionaire when it floated last November, is likely to be delisted from the FTSE 100 index of blue-chip shares when the index is revised on Wednesday.
[March 5, 2001, 13:36]
News Burst: Freeserve to get boot from FTSE 100
News Freeserve, a bellwether of the UK's Internet industry since its flotation in March 1999, is likely to be ejected from the FTSE 100 next week, when the index goes through its quarterly review. The move is seen as a sign of the times by industry...
[August 29, 2000, 10:21]
Freeserve could get the boot from FTSE 100
News The downturn in dot-com shares will take another toll next week, when pioneering Internet service provider Freeserve will likely be removed from the FTSE 100 index. If Freeserve is not in the top 100 companies that day it will move into the FTSE 250.
[August 30, 2000, 7:41]
Freeserve ejected from FTSE 100
News UK Internet service provider Freeserve (quote: FRE) is no longer one of the UK's top 100 companies and will be kicked out of the FTSE 100 index Monday, the victim of sliding tech share prices. The FTSE actuaries committee meets quarterly to review...
[October 20, 2000, 8:00]
Nasdaq drop slams UK markets - again
News The FTSE 100 and FTSE techMARK indices dropped precipitously in morning trading Tuesday, following the Nasdaq's second-biggest one-day decline on Monday. As of 1100 GMT the FTSE 100 was down 72.4 at 6,461, while the techMARK 100, which monitors...
[April 11, 2000, 10:30]
FTSE ousts Freeserve from top index
News UK Internet service provider Freeserve (quote: FRE) is no longer one of the UK's top 100 companies and will be kicked out of the FTSE 100 index Monday, the victim of sliding tech share prices. The FTSE actuaries committee meets quarterly to review...
[October 20, 2000, 12:30]
Share Cracker
Downloads It displays stock market information, including the FTSE 100, FTSE 250, FTSE All Share and AIM share prices, various stock market indexes such as the FTSE, AIM, Dow Jones, and others. Any FTSE 100 or FTSE 250 share can be selected and the day&apos...
[February 13, 2009, 19:45]
News Burst: Markets get respite from gloom
News The FTSE 100 index of blue-chips was up 56.8 to 6272.8 by 1100 GMT, with the techMARK 100 index of high-tech companies up 82.9 to 3410.6. In the mean time, the damage has already been done to many UK tech companies, with Freeserve due to leave the...
[October 20, 2000, 10:45]
Top firms fail the Internet challenge
News This report, called The Third Annual Report on The Home Pages of the UK's Top 100 Companies' Corporate Web Sites, studied the Web sites of the members of the FTSE 100 -- the 100 biggest companies listed on the London stock market.
[January 9, 2004, 16:30]
Rate worries pound FTSE, Nasdaq, Dow
News The FTSE 100 index had minutes earlier been down around 101 points, extending its sharp drop on Tuesday when it slid 3.8 percent or 264 points -- its biggest daily nominal points decline ever. In the meantime, the UK's FTSE 100 index slipped more...
[January 5, 2000, 9:46]
Roundup: Dot-com downturn - where do companies go from here?
News The news that Freeserve will almost certainly fall out of the FTSE 100 when the index is revised next week has triggered another round of speculation on just what went wrong -- with some arguing that dot-com shares were simply overvalued to begin...
[August 31, 2000, 13:05]
Baltimore relegated from FTSE 250
News Ailing Irish security firm Baltimore was hit by more bad news on Friday as it was forced out of the FTSE 250. Baltimore, previously one of UK's high-flying tech stocks, will instead enter the lowly FTSE small cap index.
[August 24, 2001, 10:22]
Markets stumble over weak tech shares
News At midday Wednesday the FTSE 100 stood about one percent lower at 6,229, with the techMARK 100 down 2.2 percent at 3,741. Other early fallers in the FTSE were some of Tuesday's strongest gainers, mostly from the technology and media sectors and...
[May 3, 2000, 10:23]
Intel profit warning hits weak UK markets
News Technology shares, which were helping put the market on course for a 13th drop in 14 sessions, dominated the top ten FTSE 100 percentage losers. The FTSE 100 index took an immediate hit Friday morning, initially dropping more than 120 points.
[September 22, 2000, 10:32]
Government Websites under fire
News Government Websites tend to be large -- about seven times the size of the average UK FTSE 100 corporate Website, according to Business2www -- and many errors are unavoidable in complex dynamic sites undergoing continuous change.
[November 22, 2002, 15:13]
Dot-com darlings set for relegation shame
News Many financial experts are convinced that, barring a late and unlikely rally in their share prices, QXL, Scoot.com and software designer Izodia will all drop out of the FTSE All-Share Index after a review on Wednesday.
[December 12, 2001, 10:03]
Tech shares dive amid Presidential uncertainty
News The FTSE 100 blue-chip index had also begun to slide, losing 5.70 to 6471. BT (quote: BT) did much of the damage, eroding 10 FTSE points in a 4.4 percent slide after it announced a break-up of the company and scaled back its global ambitions in...
[November 9, 2000, 14:27]
Markets on the rise - for now
News The benchmark FTSE 100 traded 40.6 points or 0.7 percent higher at 6,323.6 by 0752 GMT, adding to Tuesday's 41.8 point gain. Shares in Vodafone, which account for more than 12 percent of the FTSE 100 weighting, rose 2.7 percent to 287 pence, adding...
[April 26, 2000, 11:46]
Market mayhem: Tech stocks on a rollercoaster
News FTSE 100 cuts losses as telecoms stage fightback -- Positive news from BT, Vodafone AirTouch and a few others helps stabilise market. FTSE still blue after Wall Street woes -- A lethargic FTSE 100 remained mired one percent lower on Friday...
[April 7, 2000, 14:28]
