Lars Herlin | February 02, 2023 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
Investment fund management company Didner & Gerge has acquired an 8.3% stake in Sweden-based property portal Hemnet. The Uppsala, Sweden-based company bought...
Greg Spencer | February 01, 2023 | Recruitment
LinkedIn has launched a free online page for nonprofits to help them make better use of the networking site, including tips on recruiting employees and volunteers,...
AIM Group | February 01, 2023 | People on the Move
Due to economic pressures and recessions or potential recessions in some countries, many marketplaces and related businesses around the world are reorganizing and...
Greg Spencer | February 01, 2023 | Real Estate, Intel
U.S.-based Redfin has augmented its search function with Favorites Lists, which allows home buyers to organize saved homes into multiple, customized lists that can...
Ben Salisbury | February 01, 2023 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail
A survey commissioned by CarWow has found that a significant number of motorists in the U.K. are considering switching to monthly payment deals when they next...
Ben Salisbury | February 01, 2023 | Automotive
U.K.-based digital auto retailer Cazoo has angered some of its customers by terminating their subscription contracts early, Car Dealer Magazine reports. The...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | February 02, 2023 | Automotive, Financials / Deals
Greece-based auto vertical Car.gr has teamed up with Tbi Bank to offer car loans to its users. On Car.gr, users can apply for a personal loan of up to €15,000...
Deb Stowe | February 01, 2023 | Recruitment, Marketplaces
General goods marketplace OfferUp is preparing for a foray into the jobs space. The U.S.-based company said it wants to provide “a new way for people to find work...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | February 02, 2023 | Real Estate
Turkey-based real estate marketplace HepsiEmlak.com has introduced Russian-language support to meet growing demand from Russians and Ukrainians, according to a...
AIM Group | February 01, 2023 | Automotive, Real Estate, Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
EBITDA at Frontier Digital Ventures (FDV), which operates marketplaces in emerging markets, trebled during 2022, according to the company's earnings announcement....
Lars Herlin | February 01, 2023 | Marketplaces
Norway-based marketplaces operator Schibsted is reining in its ambitions for financial services platform Lendo, which is to cease operations in Spain, Portugal,...
Greg Spencer | January 31, 2023 | Real Estate, People on the Move
Real estate data vendor CoreLogic has appointed Selma Hepp (LinkedIn profile) as its chief economist on a permanent basis, after she’d filled the role for six...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | February 01, 2023 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying, Financials / Deals
South Korea-based commercial proptech company SweetSpot has closed a funding round of KRW9.5 billion ($7.6 million U.S.), ZDNet reports. This investment will be...
Ben Salisbury | January 31, 2023 | Real Estate
U.K.-based property portal OnTheMarket has been criticized in an open letter written by former investment banker Brett Stone, who says he wants to become "a...
Ben Salisbury | January 31, 2023 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying, Financials / Deals
U.K.-based property data platform MyNestBox has raised £1.3 million ($1.6 million U.S.) in a seed funding round led by Fuel Ventures, with a number of property law...
AIM Group | January 31, 2023 | Marketplaces, People on the Move
Updated Tuesday with additional comments from Prosus and Adevinta Major layoffs are spreading from the tech industry to the marketplace industry. OLX, the...
Damian Shore | January 31, 2023 | Niche Marketplaces
Spain-based PCComponentes has launched RePlay, which sells used phones, tablets and desktop and laptop computers, in addition to used PC components and...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 31, 2023 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail, People on the Move
South Korea-based Lotte Rental has appointed Jinhwan Choi (pictured) as CEO. He will take up the role on 1 Feb, replacing Kim Hyun-soo, who resigned after...
Ben Salisbury | January 31, 2023 | Recruitment, Niche Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
The U.K.’s sole recruitment platform that focuses on jobs for data professionals, OnlyDataJobs, is collaborating with data and analytics recruitment consultancy...
Damian Shore | January 31, 2023 | Recruitment
Barcelona-based Adevinta Spain employment vertical InfoJobs has joined with Tech Barcelona to launch Tech Talent, “a platform to make job offers visible in...
Damian Shore | January 31, 2023 | Recruitment, HRTech
Spain-based recruitment-as-a-service provider JobAndTalent is combining its own proprietary AI with such open-source tools as GPT-3, ChatGPT and Whisper, Business...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 31, 2023 | Automotive, Financials / Deals
Japan-based auto-marketplace operator Proto Corp. racked up Y29.5 billion ($226 million U.S.) in turnover during the third quarter to December, showing a...
Deb Stowe | January 31, 2023 | Marketplaces
A law brought in at the start of the year obliges online platforms registered in the European Union to pass on all the data of sellers who transact on them to the...
Damian Shore | January 31, 2023 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying
IBuying company Tiko recorded gross merchandise value (GMV---essentially the value of property that it sold) of €250 million ($271 million U.S.) in 2022, according...
Patrick Kosmider | January 31, 2023 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail
Berlin-based digital auto retailer HeyCar is restructuring its business. "In order to continue the sustainable development of our company, we are currently...
Lars Herlin | January 31, 2023 | Real Estate, Financials / Deals
New York City-based private equity company General Atlantic has sold its remaining stake in Sweden-based real estate platform Hemnet. The transaction was confirmed...
Jacopo Natali | January 31, 2023 | Automotive, Marketplaces
Prosus-backed marketplace horizontal OLX Indonesia is to lay off 30% of its workforce and is planning to offload its automotive business amid sluggish sales. The...
Greg Spencer | January 30, 2023 | Automotive, Digital Auto Retail, People on the Move
John Hammer, president of Carvana subsidiary Adesa, has resigned to lead another automotive company. John Hammer Hammer has been named CEO of Spectrum Automotive...
Alina Zaiets | January 30, 2023 | Recruitment, People on the Move
No.1 Russia-based recruitment vertical HeadHunter has promoted former deputy general director Dmitry Sergienkov to CEO. He replaces Mikhail Zhukov, who has been...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | January 30, 2023 | Real Estate, PropTech & IBuying, Financials / Deals
Commercial-proptech company RSquare saw its sales grow by around 90% to KRW185 billion ($151 million U.S.) in 2022. The company attributed the growth to the...
