Scoot given six months to live

Online directory service Scoot.com has said it has enough cash to survive until May next year despite reporting increased losses for the period.

Pre-tax losses were up to £174.8m for the nine-months to the end of September. This compares with losses of £34.2m for the same period last year. Much of this is because of costs associated with the write-off of Loot.

Scoot scooped Loot for a whopping £189m last year but only managed to sell it for a paltry £43m.

The company has been struggling to cope at its call centre after staff walked out ahead of their expected redundancy dates. Scoot has experienced a 16 per cent drop in the number of calls taken.

A year ago the company's shares were trading at 374p. Today it experienced a gentle rise of 0.4p to 1.68p.

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