31 Oct 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - AOL Time Warner has signed a marketing agreement with Kellogg, which will see the breakfast cereal maker's brands promoted across the media firm's TV networks and online sites.
31 Oct 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - The Barclay brothers have suffered full-year losses of 13.5m on sales of 64m, hurt by a poor performance by their ailing weekly Sunday Business and a costly relaunch of Scottish daily The Scotsman.
31 Oct 2001
| by Claire Billings,
LONDON - 365 Corp, the internet content and telecoms company, has warned that it expects full-year earnings to be hit by costs incurred during restructuring the business and a series of website closures.
30 Oct 2001
| by Staff,
LONDON - The relaunch of former online music-swapping service Napster in a legitimate form has been delayed until next year as it struggles to sign up content for the site.
30 Oct 2001
| by Sylvia Westall,
LONDON - John Lewis, the UK's largest department store group, has signed an agreement to advertise its new direct-selling business on AOL UK.
30 Oct 2001
| by Sylvia Westall,
LONDON - MTV Networks, Viacom's music television group, is to cut 450 jobs, with most of the losses coming from its internet operations, as the group restructures in response to the downturn in the advertising market.
30 Oct 2001
| by Sylvia Westall,
NEW YORK - Procter & Gamble, the household goods company, has decided to cut down on its 300 websites in order to target high-value customers with specific information.
29 Oct 2001
| by Sylvia Westall,
LONDON - Dotmusic has beaten rival website NME.com to first place in the UK's top 10 music sites, according to Hitwise, the internet traffic and research service.
29 Oct 2001
| by Jennifer Whitehead,
LONDON - ebookers, the online travel agent, has posted its first-ever profit, but the good news looks likely to be short-lived, as the company says it expects to see a loss in the last quarter of the year.
26 Oct 2001
| by Staff,
LONDON - Sportal is set to be stripped down to its UK operation, with its pan-European divisions either sold off or closed, in an attempt to keep the brand alive.