Terra Lycos

Lycos to Silence Chatting - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 27 Jan 2004 04:02 AM PST

Um...shocking..

Lycos Europe Restructures - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 11 Nov 2003 01:11 AM PST

Lycos Europe will be laying off about 100 employees, bringing the employee count to 825. It will be focusing on sectors such as communication (e-mail, messenger, SMS, MMS), communities (chat,…

Lycos Europe Does Homework to Reduce Losses - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 07 Nov 2003 10:11 AM PST

Lycos Europe posted a net loss of EU15.7m for the three months, down from EU30.4m a year ago, on revenue that fell 29 percent to EU19.4m. However, the company did…

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Terra Lycos’ Revenues Decline; Losses Narrow - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 05 Nov 2003 10:11 AM PST

Terra Lycos posted a net loss of 137 million euros ($157 million) from January to end September, 58.76 percent less than in the same period a year earlier. Sales fell…

Lycos Europe Casts Doubt on Online Ad Recovery - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 30 Oct 2003 10:10 AM PST

Its own, that is…

Former CEO Davis resigns from Spain’s Terra Lycos - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 30 Oct 2003 02:11 AM PST

Bob Davis, former CEO and founder of Lycos, had resigned from his posts of director and deputy chairman of Terra Lycos. Terra sources said Davis resigned to dedicate more time…

Lycos Links Up With Movielink - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 20 Oct 2003 08:11 AM PST

Terra Lycos and Movielink have begun to offer the latter’s movie download service from a jointly-branded site...Terra Lycos will promote the site throughout its network of sites, offering links to…

Is Terra Lycos Buying Classmates.com? - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 25 Aug 2003 04:08 AM PST

Rumors are flying on FC...Classmates.com already has an arrangement with Lycos on sharing content… In a related story, Lycos Europe has been talking to an Israeli company to set up…

Big Brother Founder Takes Stake in Lycos - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 21 Aug 2003 03:09 AM PST

Dutch financial investor J.H.H. de Mol, the billionaire behind “Big Brother”, has acquired “five percent of the company’s share capital and voting rights,” Lycos said in a statement. John de…

Spain’s Terra Lycos to Offer Disney High-Speed Web - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 20 Aug 2003 02:09 AM PST

Terra Lycos has signed a deal to offer Disney’s family-friendly Web service (about which you read here first) to high-speed Internet subscribers in Spain and Latin America...Terra, which had 477,000…

Telefonica Takes Majority Stake in Terra Lycos - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 25 Jul 2003 08:08 AM PST

Spanish telecom giant Telefonica has completed its tender offer for Terra Lycos and now owns about 72 percent of the Internet content and access firm. Previously, Telefonica owned about 33…

Terra Lycos Holds Back 2Q Earnings Until Buyout Result - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 24 Jul 2003 09:07 AM PST

Terra Lycos won’t report its Q2 earnings today as scheduled, but will wait for the results of the buyout bid launched by parent Telefonica SA…

Lycos Asia Shuts S’pore Office, Cans 40 - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 23 Jul 2003 10:08 AM PST

The continued downturn in Lycos’ fortunes: Lycos Asia has reduced its Singapore operations to a skeleton crew today, laying off around 40 staff members...its Asian operations will be directed from…

Lycos Goes Nicole in Europe - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 18 Jul 2003 06:07 AM PST

: Lycos has re-designed and re-conceived its sites in UK and rest of Europe, and moved away from the portal strategy. The company has built both the site and new…

FoxSports.com Ends Lycos Partnership - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 01 Jul 2003 01:07 PM PST

The increasing irrelevance of Lycos is getting, well, increasingly apparent. FoxSports.com has ended a marketing partnership with it, under which Lycos sold advertising for the online sports destination and hosted…

IWon May Snare Lycos - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 01 Jul 2003 02:08 AM PST

iWon, the lowest-common-denomiator portal which gives out money through sweepstakes, may be interested in buying Lycos...iWon’s parent company Focus Interactive is in acquisition mode. Focus, which operates three disparate portals—IWon,…

Terra Lycos Appoints Lehman, Citigroup To Advise On Bid - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 13 Jun 2003 02:06 PM PST

Terra Lycos has appointed investment banks Citigroup and Lehman Brothers to provide advice on the minorities buyout bid tabled by parent Telefonica..

Telefonica Would Keep Lycos - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sat 07 Jun 2003 07:06 PM PST

Telefonica has no immediate plans to sell Lycos if its takeover of the Web site network’s parent goes through, and would operate it as an independent company. This would allow…

Telefonica Offers $2B to Buy Out Terra Networks - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 28 May 2003 04:05 AM PST

Telefonica SA, Spain’s largest telephone company, offered 1.73 billion euros ($2 billion) to buy back Terra Networks, parent company of Terra Lycos. Telefonica would gain full control of Terra’s 1.7…

Terra Lycos’ Next Move - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Fri 23 May 2003 02:05 AM PST

To help all of its properties with paid offerings better their success, Terra Lycos is enlisting the DoubleClick Ensemble tool to improve campaign management and grow subscriptions. “We’ve grown our…

Terra Lycos’ Revenues Tumble - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 07 May 2003 10:05 AM PST

Terra Lycos reported a sharp drop in first quarter sales, stirring doubts over its business model despite continued progress in slashing operating losses. Sales tumbled to 115 million euros ($130.9…

Lycos Signs with DoubleClick for Subscription Services - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 10 Apr 2003 10:04 AM PST

This is major news in the content commerce software industry, though the implications and details are still unclear: Terra Lycos will use DoubleClick’s Ensemble campaign-management platform to market its paid…

Terra Lycos Woos Well-Heeled Investors - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 07 Apr 2003 01:04 PM PST

Terra Lycos unveiled a new version of its Quote.com investor site, adding real-time market data and online trading tools. The enhanced features come with Quote.com’s QCharts 4.3, a Windows-based application…

Terra Networks Says It May Make Acquisitions in U.S - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 01 Apr 2003 07:04 AM PST

(via MarketingFix: Terra Networks is interested in making acquisitions in the U.S. to strengthen its position here..."We want companies with positive ebitda, with clients and with an exportable product.”

Lycos Europe pushes premium services - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 26 Feb 2003 12:02 PM PST

Lycos Europe pushes premium services strategy: Lycos Europe is preparing a big push for its premium services and says it wants to earn at least £68m a year from them…