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A Year Ago: Scoot.com Sees Bright Future With Vivendi
News Information provider Scoot.com (quote: SCO) says it will be able to substantially boost subscriber figures after France's Vivendi promised to increase its investment. Scoot, which provides listings via mobile phones, Web sites and other media...
[January 18, 2001, 6:02]
News Burst: Scoot, TheStreet.co.uk Face Financial Turbulence
News Scoot.com and TheStreet.co.uk are the latest to suffer from the ripple effects of soured investor sentiment. Scoot, the directory and e-commerce site, reported widening losses Thursday related to its acquisition of the UK's biggest classified...
[November 16, 2000, 10:18]
Scoot.com Denies Takeover Rumours
News UK online directory service Scoot.com has denied it is in takeover talks with France's Vivendi, throwing cold water on a rumour that has contributed to a surge in dot-com shares this week. After first refusing to comment on the takeover report...
[September 6, 2000, 7:50]
Scoot To Make Profits Next Year
News Scoot.com shares got a boost Friday after the company announced it will move into profitability in 2001, a year earlier than expected. Scoot, which provides directory services via telephone, mobile, Internet and other platforms, said its subscriber...
[September 1, 2000, 14:00]
Update: Scoot Gets The Loot In £189.8m Deal
News Scoot (quote: SCO) Monday announced it has agreed to acquire Loot, the online and print-based classified guide, in a mostly-cash £189.8m deal. The deal could create interesting e-commerce opportunities: Scoot has a wide range of deals with...
[June 12, 2000, 15:17]
News Burst: Scoot Gets The Loot For £189.8m
News Scoot Monday announced the completion of its acquisition of Loot, the online and print-based classified guide. Scoot, which currently focuses on city-guide information via the Internet and telephone, says it plans to expand its operations into...
[June 12, 2000, 12:27]
Scoot.com Sees Bright Future With Vivendi
News Information provider Scoot.com (quote: SCO) says it will be able to substantially boost subscriber figures after France's Vivendi promised to increase its investment. Scoot, which provides listings via mobile phones, Web sites and other media...
[January 18, 2000, 12:39]
Wife 'hired A Hitman' To Kill Scoot.com CEO
News The ex-wife of Jon Molyneux, the former chief executive of Scoot.com, has pleaded guilty to hiring a hitman to kill her husband for his life insurance money, the Old Bailey heard on Monday. The case adds to Scoot.com's afflictions, the embattled...
[September 23, 2002, 15:56]
BT To Snap Up Scoot For A Snip
News BT announced on Thursday that it has offered to take over Scoot.com for £8m -- some 0.3 percent of the Internet directory service's value at the peak of the dot-com boom. Scoot, which has been expected to run out of cash this year, has been for...
[June 27, 2002, 16:05]
New Vivendi Buyout Rumours Boost Scoot
News Shares in Scoot (quote: SCO), the UK-based directory service, soared for a second day Wednesday morning as rumours of a takeover by France's Vivendi Universal resurfaced. Vivendi already has a 22.4 percent stake in Scoot.com.
[January 10, 2001, 10:29]
Daily Mail Snaps Up Cut-price Loot
News Struggling Internet directory company Scoot.com is to sell classified advertising newspaper Loot to the Daily Mail Group Trust (DMGT) for £45m, in an attempt to avert financial disaster. Scoot is also receiving a bridging loan of £10.5m as part of...
[August 17, 2001, 12:50]
Internet Free Speech Threatened By Data Protection Laws
News In a landmark test of how data protection laws apply to the Internet, financial information Web site International Interactive Investor was forced to hand over the names and IP addresses of contributors to its bulletin boards Sunday after...
[June 13, 2000, 17:05]
BT Unveils Multimedia Directory Plans
News The telco subsequently bought the UK assets of Scoot.com for £8m in June. According to BT, the acquisition of Scoot has given it the search engines and databases it needs to offer classified listings again.
[August 6, 2002, 12:49]
Tech Companies Swing The Jobs Axe
News StepStone, the recruitment site, said on Wednesday it may need more cash to make it to profitability next year, while Scoot.com told investors on Friday it had sold off its 50 percent stake in Scoot Europe to keep from going bankrupt.
[July 27, 2001, 11:26]
News Roundup: Tech Companies Face Clouded Future
News Friday 27th July UK information service will sell its stake in Scoot Europe to backer Vivendi Universal, is in talks over bridge financing Scoot agrees European rescue deal LATEST EARNINGS REPORTS Invensys sheds 6,000 jobs
[July 26, 2001, 10:35]
News Schmooze: Hackers, Slumps And Spies Oh My!
News At the same time Baltimore, the security company, and Scoot.com, the directory service, also got in on the act. Scoot's new chief executive has a novel idea for making money: get rid of two-thirds of your customer base and charge the rest for the...
[July 6, 2001, 17:26]
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]
Software Crashes London Traffic Lights
News London uses a traffic-light control system called Split Cycle and Offset Optimisation Technique (SCOOT), first trialled in Glasgow in the early 1970s, which automatically responds to fluctuations in traffic patterns.
[July 24, 2002, 16:14]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And talking of roaming… Just a couple of days to go now before I and my pals scoot off to 3GSM. Friday 10/2/2006 For those that care, my total email count of GSM-related PR requests is now standing at around 250, possibly 300.
[February 10, 2006, 16:50]
Harry The Handsome Executive
Downloads Scoot your way to success and you may be the next employee of the month. Harry the Handsome Executive is not your ordinary game. In this adventure, you find yourself in an ergonomically correct chair, embarking on various missions delegated by your...
[November 11, 1997, 4:16]
