Peter M. Zollman | September 08, 2022 | Marketplaces, People on the Move
Christo Volschenk, a long-time freelance writer and editor who worked for the AIM Group for more than 10 years, passed away at his home in Great Karoo, South...
AIM Group | November 16, 2017 | Marketplaces, Intel
The merger between Ringier Africa and One Africa Media, or OAM, has finally been completed. The new entity, Ringier One Africa Media, or Roam,, is the dominant...
Christo Volschenk | January 27, 2016 | Marketplaces
Koos Bekker, chairman of Naspers, is still unhappy with the treatment Naspers' Allegro sites are getting from Google in Poland. At The World Economic Forum in...
Christo Volschenk | October 06, 2015 | Marketplaces
Every quarter Besedo, the Swedish user-generated content moderator, evaluates the content quality of 20 major, general classifieds platforms around the world, and...
Christo Volschenk | October 05, 2015 | Marketplaces
If you operate a classifieds site in Asia, Africa or Latin America, here is an opportunity you simply cannot pass up on… Facebook's free Internet project called...
Christo Volschenk | October 05, 2015 | Financials / Deals
The Scout24 Group share ended its third trading day on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange at €29.92, just below its issue price of €30 on Oct. 1. At €30 the company had...
Christo Volschenk | September 30, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Oliver Samwer, co-founder and CEO of Berlin-based Rocket Internet, released and discussed the company's results for H1 of FY2015 on a Capital Markets Day in London...
Christo Volschenk | September 28, 2015 | Automotive
Mobile.de, Germany’s leading auto site, acquired Motor-talk.net, an auto community consisting of six sub-sites, for an undisclosed amount. Motor-talk.net offers...
Christo Volschenk | September 25, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Since Scout24 Group's announcement that it intends to list, we’ve heard and read a lot about the company’s so-called core business. But, what exactly is the core...
Christo Volschenk | September 23, 2015 | Recruitment
Essen-based media group Funke Medien Gruppe acquired Azubiyo, a job site for apprenticeships, and dual work/study opportunities, from founders Joachim Geitner and...
Christo Volschenk | September 22, 2015 | Recruitment
Every year for the past 14 years researcher Profilo has conducted an online survey to determine Germany’s “Best Job sites”. The survey measures the satisfaction...
Christo Volschenk | September 21, 2015 | Financials / Deals
The Scout24 Group will list on the Frankfurt stock exchange on Oct. 1, and if everything goes according to plan, 31 percent of its shares will be in free float at...
Christo Volschenk | September 18, 2015 | People on the Move
According to a report by South African business news site Moneyweb (here), Naspers chairman Koos Bekker has sold 70 percent of his stake in Naspers since his...
Christo Volschenk | September 14, 2015 | Real Estate
Condaro.com, a site for buying/selling real estate per auction, launched in Germany earlier in September. It’s first auction will kick off on Oct. 4 and end 14...
Christo Volschenk | September 09, 2015 | Financials / Deals, People on the Move
It's official: Munich-based Scout24 Group will list on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange before year-end - "market conditions permitting". The company added a complete...
Christo Volschenk | August 19, 2015 | Recruitment
PushCV, a Nigerian classifieds company that connects hiring companies with unemployed talents, announced a partnership with taxi-service app Uber to enable job...
Christo Volschenk | August 17, 2015 | Marketplaces
The drive of Immowelt Holdings to overtake Immobilienscout24 as Germany’s No. 1 real estate brand took a blow when Immobilienscout24 headhunted three, senior...
Christo Volschenk | August 13, 2015 | Recruitment
On Aug. 9 we wondered out loud (here) why the successful niche job site Experteer.de would want to partner with general job site Monster in Germany. From outside,...
Christo Volschenk | August 12, 2015 | Marketplaces
The site Officesnapshots.com invites companies to display photos of their offices. Here are a few offices of companies we often write about. We wrote about the new...
Christo Volschenk | August 09, 2015 | Recruitment
Why did job site Experteer put its German business on the line in exchange for wider reach only? That’s what we asked Experteer when we heard last Thursday that...
Christo Volschenk | August 07, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Xing, a network for business people in the German-speaking region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) released its financial report for H1 of FY2015 earlier this...
Christo Volschenk | August 07, 2015 | Automotive
Stuffle.it, the Hamburg-based general classifieds platform which started life out as an app-only flea market, signed an unusual cooperation agreement with a...
Christo Volschenk | August 04, 2015 | Marketplaces
This morning, Axel Springer reported financial results for the first half of FY2015 in line with what management had forecasted at the start of the year and with...
Christo Volschenk | July 28, 2015 | Marketplaces
Jacob Aqraou (LinkedIn) left EBay in January this year, after about 13 years in different management positions - the last as senior vice president of EBay...
Christo Volschenk | July 23, 2015 | Marketplaces
On July 16 EBay released financial results for the last time with business units PayPal and EBay Enterprise included. The next day PayPal and EBay parted ways -...
Christo Volschenk | July 22, 2015 | Marketplaces
Investment firm Kinnevik released its results for Q2 this morning. The overall picture was positive. After reporting a drop in net asset value (NAV) of SEK 448...
Christo Volschenk | July 20, 2015 | Marketplaces
A few weeks ago a rumor made the rounds in the German media that mixed-media group ProSiebenSat1 (with a few minor exposures to classified businesses) and Axel...
Christo Volschenk | July 15, 2015 | Marketplaces
Alberto Sanz de Lama, ex-CEO of Autoscout24, joined the board of Erento and LexisNexis Austria as CEO earlier this month. Erento.com, a leading platform in Europe...
Christo Volschenk | July 14, 2015 | Automotive
In Denmark, EBay and auto search engine startup AutoUncle have been in and out of the court room more or less the whole time since 2013. At stake for AutoUncle...
Christo Volschenk | July 14, 2015 | Marketplaces
Getting the categorization of your new listings right, is key to a good search experience. Nothing is as frustrating as a non-focused search result and that's why...
