A few days ago, a well-known venture capitalist friend of mine was telling me about a business pitch that he has just rejected…read pdf New Statesman 10 July 2000…[ read more ]
What does it it take to make a dotcom succeed? Hard work, a highly developed sense of fun and, as Sally Kinnes finds out, 48 hours in every day. Behind a brick facade in Soho’s Dean Street, a delivery man is struggling to get two chairs and a fan into a lift. Upstairs, there is …[ read more ]
Shopping portal and Internet service provider (ISP) Zoom.co.uk became the latest Web company to offer completely free Internet access on Wednesday. The service is due to go live in six weeks. The ISP’s existing 150,000 members will be able to join completely free. New members will have to pay a one-off £10 joining fee, which …[ read more ]
Eva Pascoe argues that, for the sake ofthe economy, we need more women on the net Earlier this month, an elite group of women from both sides of the Atlantic gathered at No 11 to discuss the role of women in the new economy. This was gesture politics at its best. In the course of …[ read more ]
Eva Pascoe, managing director of the shopping portal Zoom, assesses a range of rival sites dedicated exclusively to women’s interests My journey started from www.handbag.com, the youngest of the women’s portals, part-funded by Boots, the high-street chemist. It provides typically Boots-bland but oh-so-useful tips, such as how to roast a vegetable, and covers a predictably …[ read more ]
Eva Pascoe, co-founder of Cyberia and MD of Zoom.co.uk She co-founded the first Internet cafe in the UK in 1994, sorted out an e-commerce strategy for fashion giant, Arcadia, and is now in charge of a huge online shopping portal. Steve Hill talks to self-confessed geek and cyber feminist, Eva Pascoe. If you were asked …[ read more ]
Women who want the full monty can now get it on the Web at a new cybershopping mall called Zoom. In fact, they can get far more than the full Montague Burton group, now called Arcadia. The familiar high-street names are at the core of the site – TopShop, Dorothy Perkins, Principles, Evans, Racing Green …[ read more ]
A poster featuring a young woman engineer clad in clubbing gear forms part of a new government campaign to raise the profile of science and technology and provide role models for teenage girls. The campaign, spearheaded by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI)’s Office of Science and Technology is the result of research into …[ read more ]
A FEW days ago a large US retailer confirmed that it will use a Linux-based solution for its new retail systems in more than 100 stores. Jay Jacobs, a men’s and women’s clothing chain, has officially announced that open source software is an acceptable alternative to Windows NT for running a commercial retail operation. Linux, …[ read more ]
ROVER, ONCE the pride of the British car industry, is in trouble again. Despite having sold out to BMW, the anticipated economic miracle did not happen. Rover remains as uncompetitive as it was before the sale to its German owners. Ready for the knife but still kicking, and with a collection of friends in high …[ read more ]
