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. This article is locked. Please...
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 | June 09, 2015 | Marketplaces
Roughly four months after Tamedia announced its intention to buy Ricardo Group from Naspers for CHF 240 million ($260 million U.S.) (our report here), it now...
Talal Abu Issa | August 21, 2014 | Automotive
Saudi Arabia's auto market is huge, with annual growth in demand of 30 percent, according to a study conducted by the Council of Saudi Trade Chambers. The market...
Christo Volschenk | July 14, 2014 | Recruitment
U.K.-based job site software-as-a-service (Saas) firm Madgex opened an office in Berlin recently to serve clients in Germany and other countries on the continent....
Christo Volschenk | June 05, 2014 | People on the Move
Updated with additional information, 12:30 p.m. Eastern Carey Eaton, co-founder of the wide-ranging classifieds company One Africa Media, was described as a...
Christo Volschenk | June 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
ASX-listed Seek, Australia’s undisputed No. 1 job portal, acquired a stake of 25 percent in One Africa Media (OAM), Africa’s leading classifieds company, for $20...
Christo Volschenk | May 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
By Alessandra Ritondo The crisis seems to be far from over for Italy’s publishing industry. In the first quarter of 2013 the combined loss of two of Italy’s main...
Christo Volschenk | November 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
With the formation of a new “super group” of local and regional newspapers and websites in the U.K., what happens to their online classifieds? The answer is murky,...
Christo Volschenk | February 02, 2012 | Uncategorized
By Christo Volschenk On Feb. 4 Stuttgart, Germany's 8th biggest city, will be a weekly, printed classifieds paper richer, the publisher Zeitungsgruppe Stuttgart,...
Christo Volschenk | January 12, 2012 | Recruitment
By Christo Volschenk Ringier Axel Springer Polska, Polish unit of Swiss-based Ringier Axel Springer, the joint venture of the Swiss and German publishers Ringier...
Christo Volschenk | August 23, 2011 | Marketplaces
By Christo Volschenk After a few years of instability and restructuring a new, confident EBay has emerged in Germany, with a new logo, fresh-looking portal and...
Christo Volschenk | August 16, 2011 | Recruitment
By Christo Volschenk Xing.com, the leading business network portal in German-speaking Europe (Germany, Austria and Switzerland), is slowly reducing its reliance...
Christo Volschenk | August 08, 2011 | Uncategorized
By Christo Volschenk Unused deal-of-the-day coupons have lived an unglamorous life on free classified ad and auction portals in Europe, ever since Groupon and...