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Insolvent BenQ Mobile faces liquidation
News Attempts to save BenQ Mobile from liquidation appear to have failed. Insolvency proceedings were opened in Germany on Monday, after administrators were unable to find any investors willing to buy the struggling company.
[January 2, 2007, 13:00]
E-tailer Boxman seeks liquidation
News Online CD retailer Boxman is seeking voluntary liquidation after failing to raise vital cash needed to keep trading. The company suspended its Web site Monday, and is currently requesting approval from investors and creditors to go into voluntary...
[October 11, 2000, 7:48]
E-tailer Boxman seeks liquidation
News Online CD retailer Boxman is seeking voluntary liquidation after failing to raise vital cash needed to keep trading. The company suspended its Web site Monday, and is currently requesting approval from investors and creditors to go into voluntary...
[October 11, 2000, 13:31]
Online food exchange collapses
News UK online food exchange Efdex announced the liquidation of its business Monday, joining the increasingly long list of dotcom casualties. Kroll Buchler Phillips, the London insolvency practitioner is handling the case and confirmed Thursday that the...
[September 15, 2000, 7:30]
Express newspaper abandons Web sites
News The Daily Express newspaper's Web sites will go into liquidation Tuesday having been shut down as part of cost-cutting measures to combat failing circulation figures. Web site staff will have to wait to see if liquidation proceedings allow them any...
[January 9, 2001, 9:20]
Finding gold in dot-bombs' idle software
News Liquidation specialists have gotten fat selling the assets of dead dot-coms, but there is one type of asset they may have overlooked. Website Recycling Company, or Webreco, an online spinoff of the nearly 100-year-old liquidation company Gordon...
[August 21, 2001, 10:27]
UPDATE: Express Web staff consider legal battle
News Staff at the Daily Express newspaper's Web sites are considering legal action after the sites were put into liquidation. Although the Daily Express Web site was closed on 9 December, staff have posted a statement to the site protesting the...
[January 10, 2001, 11:22]
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]
Another flat-rate ISP bites the dust
News The Leicestershire-based ISP, which offered unmetered Internet access for £12.95 a month, ceased trading on Wednesday and now faces possible liquidation. Connect25 is now proceeding towards liquidation, said a representative of insolvency firm...
[April 19, 2001, 15:09]
Shareholders bring down axe on Baltimore
News Baltimore is now likely to go into voluntary liquidation, said chief executive Bijan Khezri, saying that the vote backed up the board's belief that Baltimore "should not continue operating as a subscale software infrastructure vendor in a...
[November 28, 2003, 15:40]
Halloween relaunch for Boo.com
News Boo.com went into liquidation during the dot-com slump in May after failing to raise £20m for a restructuring plan. The domain name, trademarks and some other assets, such as mascot Miss Boo, were bought by Fashionmall.com for more than $400,000 at...
[October 10, 2000, 10:18]
Start-up employees: Read the fine print
News If executive and nonexecutive employees really understood what these types of liquidation preferences do, I suspect they would look for more secure employment," Tomlinson said. Buried in the legalese of a venture capitalist's term sheet, a...
[October 3, 2001, 12:56]
StorageNetworks to shut down
News StorageNetworks said its board of directors had considered a range of options, including selling the company, before settling on a plan of liquidation. Liquidation involves shuttering a business and converting company assets to cash.
[August 1, 2003, 11:10]
Electronics Boutique buys Barrysworld
News In April 2000 the service expanded rapidly with the help of venture capital funding but earlier this month the company entered into voluntary liquidation when it failed to secure further funds. Before it entered into liquidation, the BarrysWorld...
[February 27, 2001, 14:36]
News Burst: Express Web staff consider legal battle
News Staff at the Daily Express newspaper's Web sites said Wednesday they were considering legal action after the sites were put into liquidation. The sites were sold off to SP Investment, a subsidiary of financial advisor Seymour Pierce, in November to...
[January 10, 2001, 9:12]
BSkyB partner closes UK operations
News Management of the Australian organisation placed the UK joint venture Beresford Swift Communications (BSC) in voluntary liquidation yesterday, absorbing an estimated £2m in losses.employees were made redundant.
[May 24, 2001, 10:44]
UK firm sells second-hand Microsoft licences
Talkback In financial terms, they are both capital expenditure that can be re couped when a company goes into liquidation. What is the difference between paid for software licences and personal computers? Microsoft would be wrong to block it, just as it...
[November 13, 2005, 9:36]
Real Estate Closing Specialist Improves System Integration and Data Management
White Papers Using ServiceLink's existing "Start-to-finish," property-closing technology, originally created with the Microsoft .NET Framework version 1.0, the technology team wanted to improve and expand the solution for bank-owned, real estate liquidation.
[February 23, 2007, 0:00]
IT company implodes - trial by blog
Blog The Nottingham Evening Post ran a story quoting Zeda financial director Mark Doughty saying the reason the IT firm went into liquidation was due to the 'credit crunch' and competition with offshore companies.
[February 7, 2008, 16:27]
News Burst: netimperative.com bites the dust
News British Internet news service netimperative.com has gone into liquidation following an emergency board meeting Monday. A statement from the company blames its collapse on ill-judged attempts to expand.
[May 22, 2000, 10:47]
