Lycos Europe appears to have found a last-minute buyer for its part of the Tripod web hosting service. Six million users of the platform were due to have their websites switched off on Sunday, February 15, after Lycos Europe opted to liquidate itself following its failure to find a buyer……

Lycos Europe, which is liquidating the majority of the business after failing to find a buyer, is shutting down its Tripod free web hosting business - and is warning users to back up now or face losing their websites. The failed portal e-mailed users on Saturday to say it is…

Lycos Europe, whose shareholders on Friday voted to liquidate most of the company after failing to find a buyer, is selling the first of its other remaining assets to United Internet AG, the German parent of the Sedo domain marketplace and 1&1 domain registrar. Lycos is getting a not-insubstantial €34…

Lycos Europe shareholders voted to liquidate the business at an extraordinary general meeting at a hotel in Amsterdam this morning. They also nodded through management’s strategy to sell its domain registration business, shopping portal and Danish website as going concerns. Shareholders will get €50 million returned to them on December…

It’s the end of the road. After putting itself on the auction block in April, Lycos Europe has finally conceded what had become increasingly clear - no-one wants to buy the ailing portal. So it confirmed Wednesday morning it will wind up its portal and its web hosting activities. It’s…

Telefonica’s (NYSE: TEF) LE Holding Corporation, the subsidiary through which it owns 32 percent of Lycos Europe, has filed an application for an inquiry in to the “policy and conduct of business” at the once-mighty portal. The complaint was made at the Amsterdam Court of Appeal’s enterprise chamber in Lycos…

Another Lycos Europe earnings update, another terrible showing. The once-mighty portal, a separate company from Lycos US, swung to a big €9.8 million loss in the half-year to June, from a €48.7 million profit a year ago, after revenues collapsed from €41.2 million to €33.3 million. Again, we have the…

It was back in April that Lycos Europe, after failing to reinvent the once-mighty portal for today’s web, put itself up for sale. Still no word on who might buy the network or for how much. Though Lycos issued a come-and-get-me to AOL (NYSE: TWX) and Tomorrow Focus, no actual…

Lycos Europe, which started a strategic review this month after failing to modernise the once-mighty portal, says it has multiple interested parties on the table (but then, it would do). A statement emerged after this morning’s annual general meeting in Amsterdam: “Investors from the US, Asia and Europe have announced…

Lycos Europe, which last month put itself up for sale after failing to offer a compelling website for several years, is hoping a US company will make an offer. In a come-and-get-me pitch, CEO Christopher Mohn told FT.com the portal “could have made a much more aggressive play” had it…

Not that anyone cares about it, but Lycos Europe, the independent Euroepan portal, has put itself up for sale, and has appointed Dresdner Kleinwort as its advisor. Its reasoning and hopes: “In light of the current consolidation of this industry sector…a strategic review to evaluate its options, which may include,…