You bastards!!!

Is Phorm not dead yet? I wish it would hurry up and die already.

Anyone know who these "institutional investors" are? I would very much like to make sure that I'm not doing business with them.

If Phorm had gone under who would have stolen and then sold all my browsing habits? How could I be targeted with a million adverts for something I'd already just bought?

I do wish poeple could see just how wonderful and important Phorm is to the future of the Interwebs. I'd hate to miss an advert that I might potentially be interested in. I would gladly have my every action and thought monitored and recorded, 24 hours a day, to make sure this never happened, if it were possible, Phorm is definitely a step in the right direction.

There's got to be some pretty serious and well-respected people behind Phorm if they can raise capital this easily, considering their shitty business plan. And seeing how easily they got into bed with the government and BT, I really do smell a rat.

Generally speaking investment houses dont buy stuff even at knock down prices without knowing that it could come good at some stage.

Given the outright failure to prosecute Phorm and BT followed by the recent spate of news items from ex MI6 bods saying keeping data etc is essential to security etc etc then its only a matter of time before Phorm's technology is deployed by HMG let alone the targeted advertising stuff.

There is obviously value in there technology and the lack of ISP implementation is probably not that important to them as the real money will come from our emerging police state.

Black helicopters - obviously

Best news I've heard all day, hurry up and die already, scum!

If the respective bosses have got _any_ sense at all then this is the way it'll stay at VM and TT. Surely, they've seen all the bad press (thanks el Reg!) that BT's got over their trials - in which case do they really want the same treatment?

I've made my personal disgust at BT's continuing dealings with Phorm evident by the simple measure of cancelling all my services with them and moving them elsewhere. Maybe if enough folks do the same then the brass at BT will get the message "Phorm = bad" loud and clear.

Someone I know also suggested that, next time you're talking to VM/TT's customer services, that Phorm is mentioned - i.e. "Any news about that Phorm stuff you're looking at?". Then make it plain that "Phorm = bad" to those folks too. Again, if enough bad feeling gets sent back to the bosses at VM/TT then it'll see the end to their involvement too.

Is it just me or is Phorm like the lead adversary in a zombie flick - no matter how much you damage it, it just keeps going ... In these days where businesses are failing left and right, Phorm is one of the companies I'd be glad to see the back of (telemarketing and HP being the others).

Bill Gates icon because I wish he'd spend some pocket change and buy Phorm to close it. ;)

If they're now only worth a quarter of what they were worth a year ago AND they haven't yet released their financial results, what does that tell you?

They have no income, no-one likes them and it looks like Virgin Media are not going to take them on...

June 18th and they could be in serious trouble...

If any investors now own more than 3% of Phorm or more than 1% more of Phorm than they did before, they'll have to issue a market regulatory news item within a week. You can read such items here. (No such RNSs yet).

http://www.investegate.co.uk/Index.aspx?searchtype=2&words=phorm&Go=

Die, Phorm, Die!

Obviously some people still think this product is legal...

...that this heralds Phorm's slide into ignominious obscurity. Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of tards.

Tombstone because, let's be honest, that's where we'd all like to see Kent E and the rest of Phorm.

Just Phuck off and die already!

They raised £32 million... Spent it in 12 months - just under £3 million a month.

Where is it going?

Or which fat-cat is creaming off the bulk of it all?

Or it just me?

That they managed to sell at any price in the current market is worrying and points to them being potentially close to a deal. They will have given the investors a heads up I'm sure, to encoruage them in.

Short sellers rather than investors is my bet, not long now...

I just hope these institutional investors aren't investing my pension.

Do not pass GO Do not collect 4.50 a share.

Which institutional investor is stupid enough to give away its customer money? Obviously some people have learned nothing....

Would be nice to know (and sure to give them good publicity over such a safe investment!)

Paris: No, even her is not THAT stupid.

Shouldn't that be 'institutionalised investors'?

I hope they lose their shirts (straight-jackets?) on this one...

I had the impression that BT were dragging their heals over webwise roll-out, waiting for Phorm to die, so they could get out of any contractual obligations with Phorm without major penalty.

Now they will have to choose whether to go ahead with the Webwise roll-out (and loose masses of customers) or tell Phorm to phuck off and take the financial hit.

Privacy Pirate.

But, really, are the investors really that stupid?

I have an idea I have invented some technology that will allow me to sneak spoken adverts into mobile phone calls. We'll just partner up with the mobile companies and opt all their customers in, sure they won't mind weak willed scum that customers are.

So, down to brass tacks, I have 10 mil shares at £10 a go, form an orderly queue please, no shoving at the back, don't worry if we run out of shares, you can always get some later when we've pissed the first cash injection up the wall.

http://www.twitter.com/ripoffbritain for updates on the 118800 privacy disaster.

Does anyone know what those 140 staff are doing? Just how hard is it to write some logging software?

Oh perhaps they have friends who used to be in high places who still have friends who are...

http://www.phorm.com/about/board_lamont.php

Lord Lamont

Non-Executive Director

Lord Lamont was a member of the House of Commons for 25 years; Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1990 and 1993 and was a minister in the Departments of Energy, Defence and Industry. He currently serves as chairman, director and advisor for a number of companies and investment funds and has considerable business experience both in the UK and internationally.

...organise a whip-round and get enough money to buy a majority shareholding in Phorm, then just dissolve the f***er but keep the rights to te technology to Phorm can't reinvent itself?

F**k BT and f**k phorm. It's up to the reg readers to make as much noise as possible every time an ISP / Teleco gets into bed with these spyvermin that they'll think twice about it. The public aren't going to like having every browsing habit eyeballed by a greedy ISP and a spyware pusher- it's just that the average person doesn't have a clue what's going on yet.

PHUCK OFF!?

Somewhere, out there, even maybe on your train tonight....the lead developer of the Phorm software will be sitting wondering whether they ( could be a man or woman! ) will have a job the other side of Xmas? They may well talk to you and tell you they're worried about their job in IT, you would have sympathy for them, being in IT yourself, not knowing all along that he was working for C**t Ghoul!

Creepy eh?

What better way to destroy the company than from within...

Yes I have been to see Mark Thomas on pro-active action.

Can I have a icon for pro-active action please.

Until I get that I will use the Pirates...... Har Har

is to buy up your opposition, so you can neutralise them ... I suspect that following Phorms publishing the textbook on how NOT to set up a company to monitor surfers web habits, there's another company (maybe part of BT itself) who are poised to try again, but this time with more charm, and subtlety. In that case, buying up the opposition, so you can control it's death makes good sense, rather than risking it being bought up and revived by your rivals ...

Hang on. I used to work for a code-intensive software firm that was producing 4 products at once, with testing, support and marketing teams plus a decent-size salesforce. The employee numbers hovered around the 140 area, with a lot of well-paid people. We had a push to reduce the monthly spend to just under £1m per month including reimbursed expenses and everything. So a, where's all that money going, and b, why would anyone invest? The fact that they seem to be bullet-proof in the eyes of the law just adds to the smell on this one. Something is well and truly up.

I take issue with that sub-heading as it implies a sense of relief at a problem averted. A feeling which I don't think is shared by anyone around here in connection with Phorm's continued existance.

"Phuck!" would be phar more appropriate under the circumstances.

"Java" and "Javascript" are entirely separate things, despite the similarity of the names. You have Java enabled. You have scripting disabled.

...we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

I'm still pretty sure we'll all be phormed one way or another within a year or two - I reckon uk.gov's conspicuously obvious silence (err... what did you say?) is a dead give away. My moneys on Carters incredibly insipid 'digital britain' report giving it the nod in one way or another, doubtless couched in bloodless quangocrat terminology.

Paris; knows an inevitable shafting when she sees one

£32m/150staff/1 year/only their office infrastructure to support/nothing to advertise/free press: 213k per staff member/year.

someone must be raking it in whether Phorm make it or not.

I can't help wondering if Phorm and Gordon Brown are like some kind of evil experiment gone wrong. No matter how wounded they are they just seem to keep coming. It;s like some terrible B movie where the evil enemy keeps coming and coming and coming.

Will either of them ever just admit defeat and stay down?