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Last year's dot-com dropout returns as Deutsche Post e-commerce partner Some bankrupt dot-coms don't die. A few don't fade away either. Take Boo.com, the hip fashion shop on the web, [...]

SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND, U.S.A., 2000 DEC 29 (NB) -- By Steven Bonisteel, Newsbytes. For struggling dot-com companies, the Year 2000 has brought plenty of woe. But that's good news to [...]

Bright Station, the technology company which bought part of Boo.com, has poached Campbell Macpherson from Virgin Wines to be its strategic planning and marketing director. Macpherson, previously marketing director at […]

1 Boo.com Sometimes you get talked about for the wrong reasons. Boo's attempts to build an all-singing, all-dancing site were at the root of its downfall. For starters, it was [...]

Boo.com will rise from the ashes later this month as a community site for fashion-minded consumers. But it will only sell a limited range of clothing, through links to other […]

Anyone thinking of setting up an online clothing retail brand in Europe should think again. This year alone has seen the humiliating collapse of two high-profile Internet-only clothes shops: Boo.com [...]

NEW YORK -- Michael Skidmore, longtime senior merchant for Barneys New York and the former director of global merchandising for troubled e-tailer Boo.com, has been named vice president general merchandise [...]

NEW YORK -- Michael Skidmore, longtime senior merchant for Barneys New York and the former vice-president of global merchandising for e-tailer Boo.com, has been named vice-president, GMM of retail merchandising [...]

The dot-com revolution may not be over, but it might be going through some sort of transition, according to a recent study of dot-com employment. The outplacement firm of Challenger, [...]

Grant Bremner (pictured) has recently been appointed the head of interactive for Pearson Television Enterprise. Bremner leaves Flextech Television and has also previously worked at companies including CNBC, Workhouse Television […]

Clothing retailer's failure is felt by other dot coms Boo.com, Europe's most heavily-funded startup, has become the first major consumer site to go out of business. The collapse has sent […]

There might be a bit of a chill in the air for luxury e-tailing with such recent entities as Boo.com and MenSelect.com pulling up their cyberstakes, but the hardcore B2B [...]

Where once cyberspace inspired awe, the Internet has now become boring. Graphic content has become more important than content. This compromise has stimulated thinking about the virtual aspects surrounding e-commerce [...]

'Marry in haste, repent at leisure' sums up the packaging industry's attitude to e-commerce. The recent failure of Boo.com cast a fleeting shadow over the City's enthusiasm for matters technological [...]

Throw enough money at promoting a product and you can make someone buy it - once. But one purchase does not make a customer. The Boo.com directors seemed to have […]

Crikey! E-tailing and e-mailing are taking a bit of a bashing this week (MW May 25) with items on the failure of Boo.com capped by Stephen Archer berating recruiters for […]

A few months ago, the dot-com revolution was at its peak and young entrepreneurs were jumping ship to find fame and fortune on the Web. But as we've seen in […]

There is little doubt that the e-boom is the major marketing issue of today. And while the dot-com "gold rush" continues to be extremely lucrative for some agencies - so […]

Boo.com is not scared of old-fashioned mail-order. The e-tailer of trendy sneakers and hip activewear, which has had a frightful time online, is testing a catalog in the 15 countries [...]

Deutsche Post, UPS among creditors pursuing online retailer boo.com The demise of Internet retailer boo.com has left United Parcel Service and Deutsche Post World Net on the potential list of [...]

They were a dream of a dot-com couple. They had looks, a slick business plan and $120 million in cash. They still have their looks. But just six months after [...]

The downswing in fortune of dotcom companies such as Boo.com and Last Minute.com is already taking its toll on branding and identity projects by design consultancies. Last week Ernst & [...]

Boo.com, the online fashion and sportswear retailer, has signed marketing agreements with a range of pan-European portal sites including Yahoo!, Spray, Wanadoo, Associated New Media and Freenet in its bid [...]

Emap Digital has poached boo.com's chief development officer, Luke Alvarez, to become its chief operating officer. Alvarez, who spearheaded the latter part of boo.com's global launch process, will work alongside [...]

Boo.com to add 13 South American, Asian countries to current l8-country network Today Europe and North America, tomorrow the world. Boo.com, the international e-tailer of sportswear and streetwear, will add [...]

* Boo.com, the online clothes store billed as one of the hottest e-commerce sites on the Web, has had its launch delayed because of technical problems. Boo is valued at […]

Kajsa Leander will ensure boo.com succeeds online, Francesca Newland writes Her name belongs to The Usual Suspects and her looks to the catwalk and Kajsa Leander, the chief marketing officer [...]

boo.com, the global sportswear website backed by the Benetton family and the LVMH chairman, Bernard Arnault, has chosen BMP DDB to run its 15 million £ global advertising account. The [...]