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30 Nov 2000
One of the highest profile e-commerce businesses in Scotland, Boondoggle, has gone into liquidation just two months after its launch. The company has blamed the recent climate change in e-business investment for its failure.
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30 Nov 2000
Eidos, the struggling games developer, announced this week that it lost £82 million in the six months to the end of September. This compares with a loss of £38 million for the previous year. The company's share value has dropped by around...
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30 Nov 2000
Six employees have been dismissed from the Birmingham office of Cable & Wireless for alleged misuse of the company's e-mail system. News of the dismissal came the day after a warning from the British Chambers of Commerce that employers may ban workers...
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30 Nov 2000
An investigation by PricewaterhouseCoopers has shown that every dot.com examined by the firm inadvertently over or under-stated its web site visitor numbers. PwC yesterday called for the wider recognition of an industry standard to ensure that the 'metrics'...
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29 Nov 2000
Erkii Liikanen, the European Commissioner responsible for the Information Society, told a meeting in Brussels yesterday that a new approach to regulation is needed to make European business more competitive while promoting the rights of citizens and consumers....
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29 Nov 2000
The company that owns Wembley Stadium has won the domain name wembleystadium.net from a Buckinghamshire man who claimed in his defence that he has commonly been known as wembleystadium.net for many years.
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29 Nov 2000
German prosecutors are investigating Yahoo! over the suspected illegal auction of copies of Hitler's manifesto "Mein Kampf." The announcement follows the recent decision against Yahoo! by a French court, ordering the portal to ban access by French nationals...
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29 Nov 2000
A new service has been launched to collect and distribute royalty payments from on-line radio stations and webcasters. SoundExchange is representing around 270 record companies worldwide, including the five major record labels that spearheaded copyright...
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28 Nov 2000
Microsoft yesterday filed its detailed appeal with the US Court of Appeals, outlining its arguments that the District Court's judgement should be reversed, and that the Justice Department's antitrust case against the company should be dismissed.
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28 Nov 2000
Oftel yesterday confirmed that it has launched an investigation into the pricing of BT unmetered internet access packages, representing the first formal competition enquiry into BT carried out by the UK telecoms watchdog.
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