Nik Flegont | September 21, 2023 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals, People on the Move
Cian PLC, a Cyprus-registered, Russia-based real estate marketplace, has announced that it has completed the acquisition of SmartDeal (Praktika Uspekha LLC). This...
Patrick Kosmider | September 21, 2023 | Marketplaces
E-commerce giant EBay is aiming to boost local buying and selling in Germany by “greatly” increasing the visibility and findability of items available...
Peter M. Zollman | September 20, 2023 | Marketplaces, Intel
The AIM Group sent executive editor Peter M. Zollman to Phoenix, Arizona, to cover the opening testimony in the trial of five former Backpage executives charged...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | September 19, 2023 | Marketplaces
General marketplace Bikroy, owned by Sweden-based Saltside Technologies AB, has made it mandatory for business users to do cashless transactions. Bikroy has been...
Ben Salisbury | September 19, 2023 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail, Financials / Deals
A new automotive marketplace has launched in the U.K. by an entrepreneur who was involved in two businesses that were eventually sold to CarWow. Sebastien Duval,...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | September 19, 2023 | Recruitment
China-based recruitment group Zhilian Zhaopin (at Zhaopin.com) has established a recruitment company PinPin to help employers improve their talent acquisition...
Ben Salisbury | September 18, 2023 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail
The annual CarGurus U.K. Consumer Insights Survey, which analyzes trends in car buying and selling, has found that a majority of U.K. buyers want more digitization...
Nik Flegont | September 18, 2023 | Real Estate
Russia-based property portal Avito Real Estate is to expand its accommodation booking service to include short-term rentals of houses and cottages nationwide. The...
Andrzej Sowula | September 18, 2023 | Real Estate
OLX Group’s Poland-based real estate vertical Otodom.pl has launched Otodom Concierge, a free service aimed at simplifying the process of finding the perfect house...
Andrzej Sowula | September 18, 2023 | Marketplaces, People on the Move
Finland-based media and marketplace operator Alma Media has appointed Tommi Raivisto as its Senior Vice President, Chief Digital Officer (CDO), and a member of the...
Ignacio Landivar | September 18, 2023 | Marketplaces
After dropping fees for private sellers and later adding the option to collect purchases in person, EBay Germany is now going cashless and only allowing payments...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | September 15, 2023 | Real Estate
Real estate marketplace Sinyi.com.tw has recently introduced AI smart-matching and house selling guide functions to improve customer engagement in property...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | September 15, 2023 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
E-commerce giants Rakuten and PChome have teamed up to promote transactions of secondhand goods between Japan and Taiwan. From now on, Taiwanese buyers can buy a...
Damian Shore | September 15, 2023 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Adevinta has sold its Hungary-based marketplace businesses — Jófogás, Használtautó.hu and Autónavigátor — to Ingatlan.com, the country’s leading...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | September 14, 2023 | Recruitment, Intel
Indeed has grown rapidly to become dominant job site in Pakistan Trends in remote work have driven online recruitment Blue-collar market still offline, and needs...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | September 14, 2023 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying, Financials / Deals
Japan-based Ga Technologies, which provides end-to-end real estate services online, saw its revenue and business profit continue to increase during the third...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | September 14, 2023 | Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Niche marketplace Whoppah.com has snagged additional €4.7 million ($5.04 million U.S.) in an oversubscribed capital raising less than one year after receiving $5...
Andrzej Sowula | September 13, 2023 | Recruitment
The Children and Youth Foundation (CYF) has launched a new TET.fi online service that makes it easier for young people to apply to TET, a program providing one to...
Damian Shore | September 13, 2023 | Automotive
With the departure of HeyCar, the imminent demise of Niw and Clicar’s revenue on the slide, it is a difficult time for digital auto retail in Spain, and new...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | September 13, 2023 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Uridoki, a c-to-b marketplace for secondhand goods, saw purchasing requests exceed JPY5 billion ($34.6 million U.S.) during the first half of 2023, with the number...
Ignacio Landivar | September 13, 2023 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying, Financials / Deals, People on the Move
13 Sep: Updated with comment from HomeDay co-founder Dmitri Uvarovski Axel Springer has completed its acquisition of struggling Germany-based hybrid real estate...
Prabhu | September 12, 2023 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail
India-based used-car marketplace Cars24 has launched a dedicated section on its site for users to pay traffic fines online. According to a news release, the online...
Andrzej Sowula | September 12, 2023 | Automotive, Financials / Deals
Revenue at AutoWallis — the parent company of No. 2 Hungarian auto site JoAutok.hu and car-bidding platform Auto-Licit.hu — increased by 48% year on year (y-o-y)...
Damian Shore | September 11, 2023 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail
Spain-based used car marketplace and digital auto retailer Niw.es is to cease trading next month, according to website AutoReport. Niw was launched in 2020 in...
Damian Shore | September 11, 2023 | Niche Marketplaces
According to Spain-based Micolet, which operates five used clothing stores in the north of the country and sells items through its website in seven other European...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | September 11, 2023 | Marketplaces
General marketplace Mercari has introduced ‘bulk purchase’ function in Japan after its rollout in the U.S. to improve customer’s convenience and reduce the use of...
Ben Salisbury | September 11, 2023 | HRTech, Recruitment
A new video recruitment platform has recently launched. Candydate.app uses AI, video and speed dating techniques to help businesses find candidates and candidates...
Nik Flegont | September 08, 2023 | HRTech, Recruitment
Yandex Practicum, the online training service of Russia-based IT giant Yandex, has launched a course for those aspiring to work as HR managers and recruiters in...
Patrick Kosmider | September 07, 2023 | Real Estate
The AIM Group has learned that Mobiliar, the oldest private insurer in Switzerland, is in talks to sell some parts of FlatFox, a Zurich-based online platform for...
Lars Herlin | September 06, 2023 | Recruitment, Intel
JobIndex suing Google via the Danish Media Association Complaints include duplication of ads, drop in traffic Case likely to slow down Google’s expansion to direct...
