Cristina Costa | December 24, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Zurich-based media company Tamedia took another step to adapt its classifieds strategy to the growing importance of programmatic advertising as an additional...
AIM Group | December 24, 2015 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
Small announcement in Christmas week: Germany’s ImmobilienScout24, a 100 percent subsidiary of listed Scout24 Group, has taken a 15 percent share in...
AIM Group | December 24, 2015 | Financials / Deals
We already reported this, now it’s official: Ringier Axel Springer’s Slovakian investment Azet.sk has founded a new subsidiary (United Classifieds...
Talal Abu Issa | December 23, 2015 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Jadopado.com, the UAE marketplace platform, has sold 14.8 percent of its equity stake for $4 million U.S. in a Series A funding round led by venture capital firm...
Talal Abu Issa | December 23, 2015 | Recruitment, Financials / Deals
Wuzzuf.com, the Egyptian job board company that recently managed to receive investments from a number of European companies, plans to expand its services in 2016...
Cila Warncke | December 23, 2015 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
Barcelona-based rental portal LaComunity.com has just closed a second funding round of €350,000 ($383,000 US), according to Spanish venture capital news site Web...
Lars Herlin | December 22, 2015 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
As we just reported Schibsted has to deal with the Swedish Competition Authorities when it comes to closing the acquisition of the real estate portal Hemnet. Now...
Talal Abu Issa | December 21, 2015 | Financials / Deals
The owners of JRD Group, operators of JustRentals.com and JustProperty.com in Dubai, sold a “significant” minority stake in their business to the Imena Group,...
Luke Smith | December 21, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Love Home Swap, a marketplace on which people can exchange homes for short stays, acquired HomeForExchange in the Netherlands. The U.K.-based company acquired...
Lars Herlin | December 21, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Finally, after almost eight months of negotiating, Schibsted has reached an agreement with the second Swedish real estate agent organization to acquire 15 percent...
Christo Volschenk | December 19, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Immobilienscout24 acquired 100 percent of Classmarkets, provider of white-label software-as-a-service (Saas) for real estate, jobs and auto markets in Germany and...
Lars Herlin | December 17, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Finally, after more than seven months of negotiating, Schibsted reached an agreement with the other real estate agent organization Fastighetsmäklarförbundet to...
Christo Volschenk | December 17, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Rocket Internet reported an operating loss of €629 million ($692 million U.S.) in the first nine months of FY2015 at 13 of its best-performing startups, called...
Lars Herlin | December 15, 2015 | Financials / Deals
No-one doubted it, but now its official: the deal in which Naspers acquired 31 percent of Russia's Avito has received the green light from all relevant...
Christo Volschenk | December 14, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Lithuanian preloved-clothing marketplace Vinted.com got a $27-million U.S. injection from Germany’s media company Hubert Burda Media Group, and venture capital...
Patrick Peterson | December 14, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Former CEO and founder of Housing.com, Rahul Yadav, who was fired in a major public dispute with his board of directors, has powerful allies for his new venture....
Cila Warncke | December 10, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Mitula, the international aggregator founded in Spain, enjoyed a red letter year with strong revenue and profit growth. The highlight of 2015 was its IPO on the...
Christo Volschenk | December 09, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Axel Springer, a leading media group in Germany with the declared aim of becoming the leading digital publisher in the world, acquired the last 15-percent stake...
Cristina Costa | December 09, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Leading Slovakian online company Azet.sk, in which the joint venture Ringier Axel Springer Media holds a majority stake, bundled its portfolio of online...
Radhika Sachdev | December 08, 2015 | Financials / Deals
India-based Nexus Venture Partners, which backs startups like OLX, Snapdeal, and ShopClues, has raised $450 million USD (3,000 crore, approx.) for its fourth fund,...
Christo Volschenk | December 08, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Immowelt Holding, operator of Germany's real estate sites Immowelt and Immonet, is exploiting its well-established parentage to the maximum. Last week it replaced...
Luke Smith | December 07, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Online classifieds platform DoneDeal.ie, owned by Independent in Ireland, slipped into the red in FY2014, despite lifting revenue by more than 20 percent to €9.5...
AIM Group | December 03, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Amid widespread speculation about a possible buyout of CommonFloor.com, Quikr.com today announced the surprise acquisition of RealtyCompass, an analytic s tool for...
Marian Jacob | December 03, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Led by award-winning entrepreneur Steve Melhuish, Southeast Asia’s leading property portal, PropertyGuru, has acquired Indonesian property portal RumahDijual.com,...
Kate Lyons | December 02, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Fairfax Media has done a deal with online automotive editorial business 112 Pty Ltd, operator of online car buyer editorial site, Themotorreport.com.au, licensing...
Luke Smith | December 02, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) Plc announced results for the full financial year to Sept. 30. It reported a healthy 34-percent rise in revenue to £107.6 million...
Lars Herlin | December 01, 2015 | Financials / Deals
When a CEO sells shares in his company, it is seldom received as good news; when the COO sells at the same time, it may well lift some eyebrows. By timing their...
Cila Warncke | December 01, 2015 | Financials / Deals
Wallapop, the Spanish-based mobile-only marketplace that raised a reported $150 million in funding in the past year, has made its first acquistion, a start-up...
Don Gasper | December 01, 2015 | Financials / Deals
China’s 51job, Inc. (Nasdaq: JOBS), generated healthy revenue in the third quarter of 2015 that ended on September 30, 2015, according to its unaudited financial...
Don Gasper | November 30, 2015 | Financials / Deals
China’s largest general classified business 58.com Inc. (NYSE: WUBA) reported strong third quarter results on November 30, with its topline growing faster than...
