Luke Smith | November 13, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Auto Trader, the U.K.’s largest digital automotive marketplace, announced its underlying operating profit jumped 17 percent to £83 million ($126 million U.S.) in...
Christo Volschenk | November 12, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Germany’s Scout24 Group listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange roughly a month ago. This week the company released an interim financial report for the first nine...
Cila Warncke | November 12, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Classified ad revenue rose 24.9 percent in Q3 of FY2015 from the same period last year at Spain's Vocento Group, which released its financial figures for Q3 today....
Anastasia Gnezditskaia | November 11, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Professional networking service Viadeo reported a 4.4-percent drop in total turnover outside of China in Q3, due to lower account subscriptions, which dropped 18.2...
Don Gasper | November 11, 2015 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Chinese job site 51job Inc. (Nasdaq: JOBS) saw total revenue in the third quarter increase by 10.8 percent over Q3 2014 to RMB 525.0 million ($82.6 million U.S.),...
Andrzej Sowula | November 10, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Polish media group Agora SA reported a 12.5-percent increase in revenue and a 10.5-percent increase in profit, compared to the same period last year, for its...
Lars Herlin | November 10, 2015 | Financials / Deals
The latest Avito numbers were released by Vostok New Ventures - not majority-owner Naspers. Naspers owns 67.9 percent of the shares in Avito.ru, after a $1.2...
Don Gasper | November 09, 2015 | Automotive, Financials / Deals
Bitauto Holdings Ltd (NYSE: BITA), a leading provider of Internet content and marketing services for China's fast-growing automotive industry, delivered another...
Christo Volschenk | November 06, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Listed business network Xing increased its third quarter revenue year-on-year by 17 percent to €30.5 million from €26 million in Q3 in 2014. Every division of the...
Christo Volschenk | November 04, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Every quarter it's the same story (it's almost getting boring): classifieds were the driving force behind another sparkling financial performance at Axel Springer....
Lars Herlin | October 30, 2015 | Financials / Deals
There wasn’t much news in the Schibsted Q3 report released this morning. Still (or maybe because of), the share price dropped more than 5 percent in early...
Anastasia Gnezditskaia | October 29, 2015 | Financials / Deals
The revenue of French media group Spir Communication was at €92.6 million ($103 million U.S.) in Q3, down 7.3 percent from the same period last year. Over the...
Andrzej Sowula | October 29, 2015 | Financials / Deals
The online and mobile revenue of Sanoma’s Consumer Media segment (including the classified businesses in Finland and the Netherlands, with the online auction...
Brian Blum | October 29, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Monster Worldwide CEO Tim Yates tried to put a positive spin on declining revenue numbers for the third quarter of 2015. “We are gratified that we achieved our...
Anastasia Gnezditskaia | October 28, 2015 | Financials / Deals
The revenue of Dutch media group Telegraaf Media Groep (TMG) dropped by 4.8 percent in Q3 FY2015 from Q3 FY2014 and by 6.8 percent (€25.9 million) in the first...
Andrzej Sowula | October 23, 2015 | Financials / Deals
The revenue of Alma Media’s division Digital Consumer Services, which houses the classified businesses of the company, climbed 13.1 percent in Q3 of FY2015 from Q3...
Peter M. Zollman | October 22, 2015 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
How’s this for disappointing? Anyone who --- like us --- was expecting to see some details of the performance of EBay’s classifieds group in its first earnings...
Lars Herlin | October 22, 2015 | Financials / Deals
In Guatemala Millicom, the Kinnevik-controlled telecom and online company, is involved in what is considered to be a bribing scandal. Millicom has informed law...
Marian Jacob | October 19, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) reported lower profit for the year that ended August 31. Net profit of $321.7 million U.S. was $82.6 million U.S., or 20.4 percent...
Christo Volschenk | October 07, 2015 | Financials / Deals
One day before Rocket Internet presented to investors in New York on Oct. 1, Axel Springer presented there. To date, nothing has been reported in Germany on the...
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...
Luke Smith | October 05, 2015 | Financials / Deals
In a trading update released today (here), Trinity Mirror in the U.K. said its full-year performance is on track to meet expectations, despite a nine percent fall...
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 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 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...
Lars Herlin | September 12, 2015 | Financials / Deals
In a very turbulent stock market environment, Schibsted this week pulled off a ”blitz” placement in Oslo of 10.8 million B shares, landing the Norwegian media...
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...
Don Gasper | August 11, 2015 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
China’s leading job recruitment board, 51Job Inc., did better than expected in the second quarter of 2015, according to figures released this week. Total revenue...
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...
Don Gasper | August 07, 2015 | Automotive, Financials / Deals
Autohome Inc. and BitAuto Holdings Ltd., operators of two leading Chinese automotive websites, announced their unaudited financial results for the second quarter...
