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Lastminute.com Talking Phrase Books For IPod
Downloads The lastminute.com Talking Phrase Books will add any combination of French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish phrase books to your iPod. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
[February 26, 2008, 18:01]
Lastminute.com Left Red-faced As Cheques Bounce
News The increasingly bizarre tale of Lastminute.com took another twist last week when a number of investors were accidentally sent cheques, which bounced, from the company. The problem, according to Lastminute.com, was nothing more sinister than an...
[April 3, 2000, 16:03]
Lastminute.com Inks Sky Digital Deal
News Lastminute.com has signed up with Sky Digital to provide its travel and entertainment ticket services to shoppers using interactive TV. As of today, Sky viewers will be able to access lastminute.com's array of travel packages, theatre tickets...
[June 12, 2003, 15:30]
Lastminute.com Staff Face Job Cull
News Online travel firm lastminute.com is aiming to cut costs by axing 70 staff despite claiming last week that it will report a profitable quarter in November. A spokesman for lastminute.com told the Sunday Times: "There's going to be employees who'll...
[September 23, 2002, 15:10]
Lastminute.com Shares Continue To Slide
News British e-tailer lastminute.com dropped below its flotation price for the first time Tuesday as shares began official trading on the London Stock Exchange. The lastminute.com flotation caused shares to jump, Guy Kewney knows it is all going to end...
[March 21, 2000, 10:02]
Startup Spotlight: Lastminute.com
News lastminute.com has one of the more innovative business models on the Net: it takes advantage of the left-over inventory of entertainment, gift, travel and hotel suppliers, and the real-time nature of the Web, to offer deals that would be difficult...
[November 10, 1999, 11:40]
Lastminute.com Off To Flying Start
News One of Britain's largest Internet flotations got under way Tuesday as lastminute.com shares began unofficial trading. By midday they had settled to around 502p, and they closed at 465p.lastminute.com has said that 188,995 private investors had...
[March 14, 2000, 9:05]
Lastminute.com Flotation Wows Market
News The second-best-known Internet brand in the UK got off to a fast start in London Tuesday morning as lastminute.com launched its long-awaited flotation. Lastminute joins Freeserve (quote: FRE), auctioneer QXL.com (quote: QXL), 365 and financial Web...
[March 14, 2000, 16:53]
Lastminute.com Adopts Microsoft .NET Technologies To Enhance Communication With Customers
White Papers Dedicated to providing its customers with online travel and entertainment solutions, lastminute.com has adopted Microsoft’s dynamic .NET Framework and XML Web Services to enhance its offering.lastminute.com wanted to introduce new ways of...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Lastminute.com Overwhelmed By Demand
News UK travel site Lastminute.com found itself struggling to cope with a surge of online visitors on Tuesday, after the UK returned to work following the Christmas break. Some people visiting Lastminute.com were presented with a page headlined...
[January 3, 2006, 16:30]
Lastminute.com Hopes That Edible Underwear Will Boost Profits
News According to Wednesday's Financial Times, Lastminute.com has expanded its "staying in" pages, which will now allow users to order edible underwear, inflatable dolls and pornographic magazines. This diversification away from just selling cut-price...
[August 1, 2001, 12:26]
Lastminute.com Outsources To Argentina
News In a move consistent with its reputation as a purveyor of exotic retreats, Lastminute.com has eschewed the clichéd decision of outsourcing some of its IT operation to India and opted instead for a more esoteric destination -- Argentina.
[March 1, 2004, 9:50]
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. The lastminute.com flotation caused shares to jump, Guy Kewney knows it is all going to end in tears.
[March 15, 2000, 10:00]
A Year Ago: Lastminute.com Left Red Faced As Cheques Bounce
News The increasingly bizarre tale of Lastminute.com took twist another last week when a number of investors were accidentally sent cheques from the company, which bounced. The problem, according to Lastminute.com, was nothing more sinister than an...
[April 3, 2001, 6:07]
Lastminute.com Revisits Profitability
News E-tailer Lastminute.com announced on Tuesday that it made a pre-tax profit in the second quarter of this year, putting it on track for full-year profitability before goodwill deductions. Excluding tax, goodwill writedowns and exceptional expenses...
[August 5, 2003, 11:35]
Lastminute.com: Forget Google - We're The Innovators
News While US dot-coms such as Google, Amazon and eBay have been praised for their technical innovation, UK Web survivor Lastminute.com has shuffled around in the shadows -- seen as functional but not exactly cutting-edge.
[March 2, 2004, 9:55]
News Burst: Lastminute.com Shares Drop
News Travel site lastminute.com saw its shares fall on the London market after announcing a loss of £9.3m for the second quarter, ending 30 June. Lastminute, which sells excess stock of flights, holiday packages, restaurant and entertainment bookings...
[August 3, 2000, 10:27]
News Burst: Lastminute.com Buys French Company For £59m
News Lastminute.com could creep into the black earlier than anticipated after its £59m buyout of French online travel agency Degriftour, announced Monday. Lastminute and other dot-coms have faced increasing investor pressure to make profits as quickly...
[August 14, 2000, 10:05]
Lastminute.com Auctions First UK WAP Phone
News Starting Tuesday Lastminute.com is auctioning 25 of the world's first WAP 1.1 mobile phones. The auction is in association Orange and offers the Orange Nokia 7110e, which won't launch officially until next week.
[November 16, 1999, 12:41]
Lastminute.com Targets Students
News lastminute.com is looking to get students hooked on its brand by infiltrating universities with "student brand managers", the startup said Tuesday. Students could be a particularly valuable market for lastminute, which targets people with a bit of...
[November 24, 1999, 11:56]
