Lastminute.com Hopes That Edible Underwear Will Boost Profits
News Company co-founder Martha Lane Fox explained that the move -- which she labelled "tongue in cheek" -- was an attempt to find new revenue streams. According to Wednesday's Financial Times, Lastminute.com has expanded its "staying in" pages, which...
[August 1, 2001, 12:26]
Lane Fox Leaves Lastminute.com
News Lastminute.com has turned in its first annual profit but announced that co-founder and one-time dot-com darling Martha Lane Fox is to take more of a back seat role. However, Lane Fox said in a statement: "It has always been my ambition to see the...
[November 20, 2003, 15:40]
Startup Spotlight: Lastminute.com
News For example, an index of high-tech movers compiled by management consultants Bain recently awarded the first position to lastminute, and an American journalist has called it "the toast of the European internet community".lastminute co-founder...
[November 10, 1999, 11:40]
Lastminute Cofounder Offers To Rescue Investors
News Lastminute.com cofounder Martha Lane Fox has offered to buy back shares of some investors at their offer price, a move which could make money for the lucky few, but is likely to farther upset the majority of shareholders.
[January 15, 2001, 15:42]
Lastminute.com Flotation Wows Market
News Co-founders Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox stand to make £68m and £45m, respectively. We have the potential to try and build a global brand at Lastminute.com.No-one elswhere is doing exactly what we do anywhere round the world," Lane Fox told...
[March 14, 2000, 16:53]
Expedia Results May Spoil Lastminute.com Party
News As the Martha Lane Fox show continues to dominate Internet finance news ahead of Lastminute.com's flotation, Expedia UK's recent results might just take some of the gloss off of the glamourous spin being put on Lastminute's performance by the...
[March 9, 2000, 12:32]
Investors May Exit Lastminute.com Early
News Concern centres around the 17 percent stake that founders Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman hold. Hoberman and Fox have announced that they have no plans to sell any of their combined stake in the company.
[December 11, 2000, 12:13]
Lastminute Co-founders Cash-out Day Arrives
News Lastminute.com's management, including co-founders Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane-Fox, could turn their virtual millions into cold, hard cash for the first time starting Monday. Don't expect Hoberman and Lane-Fox to take the money and run anytime...
[September 11, 2000, 11:19]
Lastminute.com Inks Sky Digital Deal
News As of today, Sky viewers will be able to access lastminute.com's array of travel packages, theatre tickets, restaurant deals and a varied cornucopia of other cut price offers simply by pressing 'the red button' on their remote control.lastminute...
[June 12, 2003, 15:30]
Who Wants To Be An E-millionaire?
News There will be no "call a friend" for the next Martha Lane Fox that this show hopes to discover. Who Wants to be a Millionaire? gets a new spin Monday as Channel 4 launches a search for an Internet entrepreneur to follow (hopefully more successfully...
[July 11, 2000, 8:40]
Lastminute.com Off To Flying Start
News Co-founders Brent Hoberman and Martha Lane Fox stand to make £68m and £45m, respectively. One of Britain's largest Internet flotations got under way Tuesday as lastminute.com shares began unofficial trading.
[March 14, 2000, 9:05]
2001: The Weird World Of Tech
News A 'tongue-in-cheek' move according to Martha Lane Fox, it helped move the e-commerce site out of just the travel market and into indoor fun. IT's a funny old world, someone famously didn't quite say. ZDNet UK strives all year round to bring you the...
[December 26, 2001, 6:31]
Jane Wakefield: Oh Boo - Where Did It All Go Wrong?
News Its flashy launch -- when no paper from the FT to the East Accrington Echo was without a smiling picture of Martha Lane-Fox -- looked set to create the biggest float ever in the history of the world but turned out to be a whimper rather than a bang.
[May 19, 2000, 11:48]
Lastminute Voted 'worst' UK Travel Site
News Lastminute became a darling of the UK startup scene last year, largely because of the high profile of its cofounders, Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman. Lastminute.com has received the dubious honour of being voted "worst" UK travel site, in a...
[October 17, 2000, 16:07]
UK Net Startups Not Scared By Freeserve Plummet
News Martha Lane-Fox, co-founder and director of Lastminute, argues that Freeserve's dip should not be construed as a warning sign for her company. A number of European Internet companies with a public offering on the horizon have reacted with defiance...
[September 21, 1999, 16:17]
A Year Ago: UK Net Startups Not Scared By Freeserve Plummet
News Martha Lane-Fox, co-founder and director of Lastminute, argues that Freeserve's dip should not be construed as a warning sign for her company. Companies planning share offerings say the market is still sound
[September 21, 2000, 7:02]
