AIM Group | April 10, 2014 | Real Estate, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
Argentina-based online commerce platform MercadoLibre Inc. (Nasdaq: MELI) has acquired two major real estate websites. Mercado will pay about $40 million in cash... AIM Group | March 27, 2014 | Financials / Deals
Lithium Technologies Acquires Klout Combines Massive Consumer Reach and Reputation System with Leading Community Platform March 27, 2014 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight... Sourish Bhattacharyya | March 12, 2014 | Horizontals, Financials / Deals
By Sourish Bhattacharyya A consortium of companies led by Investment AB Kinnevik of Sweden has pumped $90 million (U.S.) into privately held Quikr.com, the online... Andrzej Sowula | January 22, 2014 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
Grupa Nokaut, owner of Poland's leading price comparison site Nokaut.pl, acquired 22.4 percent of Morizon for 5.9 million Polish zloty ($1.9 million U.S.) in cash,... Christo Volschenk | December 20, 2013 | Financials / Deals
In the past week Johannesburg-based multinational telecommunications firm MTN Group jumped in bed with start-up expert Rocket Internet and Millicom International... Christo Volschenk | November 26, 2013 | Financials / Deals
When listed companies release financial results, we comb the statements for classifieds-related news. This morning we didn't have to dig deep, when Cape Town-based... Christo Volschenk | November 11, 2013 | Automotive, Financials / Deals
In what could be the start of a new direction for Motor Presse Stuttgart, the Stuttgart-based publisher of special interest magazines acquired the Polish auto... Andrzej Sowula | September 16, 2013 | Automotive, Real Estate, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
Estonia-based Allegro Baltics OÜ merged with Moonfish Media OÜ, Consolidated Auctions OÜ (operator of auction portal Osta.ee), and Diginet OÜ (operator of real... AIM Group | July 12, 2013 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
Rental platform Nestio, which also provides search and save tools for users of EBay Classifieds, Curbed.com, NakedApartments and CitiHabitat, has just received... Christo Volschenk | July 05, 2013 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
It was the classic “buy two, get one free” action. Earlier this week EBay Classifieds Group acquired two Belgian general classifieds platforms and got a Dutch... Lars Herlin | April 30, 2013 | Horizontals, Financials / Deals
LeBonCoin of France is the rising star of Schibsted, but the Norwegian leadership-team did not make too much fuss about it when they presented the results for Q1... Christo Volschenk | February 25, 2013 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
EBay Marketplaces and PayPal will create 450 new jobs at their European Operations Centre in Dundalk, Ireland in the next three years, to strengthen their customer... Steve Shipside | August 07, 2012 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
U.K. Property leader Rightmove has posted strong figures for the half year to end June 2012 with revenues up by 23 per cent to £57.9m, and operating profit up 28... Christo Volschenk | June 04, 2012 | Horizontals, Financials / Deals
By Christo Volschenk Ringier Axel Springer Media, the joint-venture of Swiss media group Ringier and German media group Axel Springer operating in Eastern Europe,... Christo Volschenk | June 04, 2012 | Horizontals, Financials / Deals
By Christo Volschenk South African-based media group Naspers has taken another step to bring order to its wayward portfolio of free small ad platforms. This time... AIM Group | May 29, 2012 | Automotive, Financials / Deals
Published May 29, 2012 uShip Joins Cars.com Shipping Center http://cars.com/ From the UShip blog: UShip has just been add to the Shipping Partner Marketplace of... AIM Group | May 25, 2012 | Horizontals, Financials / Deals
Quikr Attracts US $32 Million Private Equity Investment Published May 25, 2012 *Quikr Attracts US $32 Million Private Equity Investment* * * *Warburg Pincus leads... AIM Group | April 18, 2012 | Horizontals, Financials / Deals
Published April 18, 2012 *Online Classifieds Market Maturing, Overall Revenue Growth of 16% in 2011, Finds Frost & Sullivan* *Expenditure growth driven mostly... AIM Group | March 26, 2012 | Real Estate, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
Published March 26, 2012 Primedia Agrees to Acquire Rent.com from EBay Inc. ATLANTA, GA – March 22, 2012 – Primedia, a premier renter resource for apartment and... Linda Karlsson | February 16, 2012 | Horizontals, Financials / Deals
By Linda Karlsson Today Schibsted’s presented its Q4 2011 results, which showed operating revenue of NOK 3.7 billion ($629 million U.S.), an increase of 4 percent... Christo Volschenk | December 21, 2011 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
By Christo Volschenk Finland’s Alma Media Corporation acquired LMC, the company behind job portals Jobs.cz and Prace.cz in the Czech Republic and Topjobs.sk in... Christo Volschenk | November 17, 2011 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
The ties between German media group Axel Springer and free small classifieds platform Kleinanzeigen.ebay.de are growing ever stronger in Germany. Soon there may... AIM Group | November 17, 2011 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
Published November 17, 2011 Berlin – 17.11.2011 Deutschlands meist besuchtes Online-Kleinanzeigenportal eBay Kleinanzeigen* (http://kleinanzeigen.ebay.de) und das... Cristina Costa | October 10, 2011 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
Ebay Classifieds in Spain has signed a new deal with the leading coupon dealers Groupon, Groupalia, LetsBonus and Offerum at the end of September. The classifieds... Peter M. Zollman | October 06, 2011 | Horizontals, Financials / Deals
Explosive growth in recruitment advertising at Craigslist this year will offset most of its losses from the elimination of adult-services revenue, the AIM Group... Katja Riefler | October 03, 2011 | Horizontals, Financials / Deals
By Katja Riefler Already in June 2011 we reported that South African media and e-commerce group Naspers is about to buy eastern European free classified website... Peter M. Zollman | July 13, 2011 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
EBay has completed another major acquisition, a group of Latin American sites operating under the AlaMaula brand. The site and its related sites enter a crowded... AIM Group | July 12, 2011 | Classified Recommerce, Horizontals, Financials / Deals
Published July 12, 2011 (This news release was issued in Latin America on June 23, but was not released in the U.S. nor on EBay’s corporate... Katja Riefler | June 27, 2011 | Horizontals, Financials / Deals
MIH Allegro BV (Netherlands), a company of MIH Internet Europe, which itself is owned by the South African media holding Naspers, is allowed to acquire more than... Katja Riefler | June 27, 2011 | Horizontals, Financials / Deals
South African Naspers group has just released its provisional results for its fiscal year ended 31 March 2011. Here is what is says about their Internet...