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UK.shopping.com Live

when did this take place

         

Shak

4:35 pm on May 23, 2004 (gmt 0)

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was just messing around and wondering when Dealtime/Shopping.com were gonna bring the brand over to the UK.

so I type in [uk.shopping.com...] and looks whats there ;)

Shak

Bobby_Davro

5:18 pm on May 23, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Nice find. I think that Shopping.com/Dealtime are on a bit of a distribution push at the moment. Perhaps it is the Yahoo purchase of Kelkoo that has them a little worried.

Should we expect MSN to attempt to buy Shopping.com as a counter to Yahoo?

Shak

5:21 pm on May 23, 2004 (gmt 0)

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[webmasterworld.com...]

[webmasterworld.com...]

but 1 never knows

Shak

Bobby_Davro

5:58 pm on May 23, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Does an IPO preclude a buyout, or at least the purchase of a controlling share of the stocks?

Bobby_Davro

11:34 pm on May 26, 2004 (gmt 0)

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That was a genuine question - I am not sure how these things work with public companies.

rconway

9:41 am on May 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I think they are only selling around 25% of the shares in the IPO so in theory another company could buy a majority stake without having to buy any of the shares back that will be issued in the IPO.

rconway

5:24 pm on Jun 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Just typed in www.shopping.com from the UK and was geo-targeted to uk.shopping.com

Richard

Shak

8:40 pm on Jun 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Richard,

Thanks for sharing, just saw it :)

btw, noticed a pop up pushing the UK version is also dsplayed on deep inbound pages, not just the home page

all good as they say

wonder when the marketing begins

Shak