Gameplay shares jump on strong growth
22 Dec 2000
Online games retailer Gameplay reported strong year-on-year sales growth yesterday, prompting its share price to leap by 11.5% this morning.
BMP DDB has been hired by The Guardian to handle advertising for the newspaper group’s online and offline brands.
Online games retailer Gameplay reported strong year-on-year sales growth yesterday, prompting its share price to leap by 11.5% this morning.
Internet incubator NewMedia Spark has written off more than 45m from the value of its investments, because of the turmoil in the internet sector.
News and information company Reuters has scrapped plans for a retail version of its online brokerage system Instinet.
eToys, the US online toy retailer, will shut down its UK operation early in the new year, resulting in the loss of about 90 jobs - if a significant new investor is not found.
British Airways has pulled the plug on Project Quicksilver, its internet portal aimed at Executive Club members, before it even launched, and less than three months after appointing TBWA/London to handle its ad business (Marketing, October 26).
The Body Shop is combining its e-commerce operations with its existing retail and mail-order businesses after ending a partnership with Softbank Technology Ventures. The Body Shop will buy specific assets of the jointly owned company, The Body Shop Digital, paying either dollars 6m in cash or through...
AOL and Time Warner have had their pounds 70bn merger approved by the Federal Trade Commission nearly a year after they announced their plans to merge. Time Warner must open its network to rival internet companies as part of the deal, though AOL is expected to get preferential treatment.
Richard Desmond has sold the Express Newspaper internet assets for pounds 1 to stockbroker Seymour Pierce, who will try to sell them or put them into hibernation for sale at a later stage. The four sites - Express.co.uk, Sportlive.co.uk, Companyleader. com and Allaboutparents.com were said to be costing...
ShopSmart.com, the comparative shopping site, is to renew its sponsorship of movies on Channel 5 next year as part of a multi-million-pound deal. Movies scheduled for next year include Courage Under Fire and The Long Kiss Goodnight. Movies form the cornerstone of C5's schedule, attracting audiences...