Lastminute.com
Floating Lastminute.com
Mark Tran explains Lastminute.com's extraordinary popularityLastminute.com hit with German law suit
19 March: Everything went wrong for lastminute.com in the opening moments of the game. High-profile Internet entrepreneurs Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman are not only watching their share price fall, they are also being taken to court for anti-competitive behaviour. It's too soon to buy into Lastminute.com
March 14: Beware the absurdly overvalued internet stocks - for a bubble is bound to burst, argues Will Hutton, the respected economic commentator and chief executive of the industrial society. Business as usual
Comment: In the event, it was nothing much out of the ordinary. After months of hype and anticipation, in the face of warning after warning that this could be the one to prick the so-called dot.com bubble, share trading in the online retailer Lastminute.com finally kicked off this morning, writes financial editor Paul Murphy. Will the bubble burst?
High-techs brought low as old economy rises
19 March: Is normal service resumed? Markets surge as the blue chips bite back - and dot.coms dwindleToo good to be true
Larry Elliott: Tomorrow the internet goldrush will reach a new pitch of excitement with the flotation of Lastminute.com. But amid the euphoria and free spending, there are alarming echoes of past bubbles. Lastminute offer is heavily overbooked
13 March: Up to 250,000 investors are scrambling for the 33m shares being offered in net retailer Lastminute.com, resulting in disappointment for most applicants. Flotation fever
The billion dollar man who put us on the Web
Most people have never heard of him but Jim Clark eats bankers for breakfast and his companies have changed the world.NewMedia raises £35m
NewMedia Spark, the incubator fund set up to invest in early-stage technology and internet companies, is to use some of the proceeds of a £35m fundraising to buy stakes in six start-ups and attract new staff. Auctioneer QXL.com halves float value
Online auctioneer QXL.com is likely to float at about half the £750m initial valuation made by analysts and pundits. Analysis
Anyone can get rich quick - but they said that in 1929, too
How to become an Internet billionaireThird party enters battle of the internet
The intensification of the battle of Britain's internet industry leaves one unanswered question that has much wider ramifications than the UK. Who is going to make money out of the internet in the long term?
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