AIM Group | November 07, 2008 | Marketplaces
Tencent Holdings, operator of QQ, China's biggest instant messaging service, remains optimistic regarding the impact on its business of slowing economic...
AIM Group | November 07, 2008 | Marketplaces
Baidu, operator of China's biggest Internet search engine, posted a 91 percent increase in third-quarter profit in October after surging Web usage enticed more...
AIM Group | June 03, 2009 | Recruitment
Experteer, the Munich-based job portal launched by Holtzbrinck Ventures in May 2006, received a €8 million capital injection from venture capital firm...
AIM Group | June 02, 2009 | Marketplaces
The brain drain at AutoScout24.de, the auto portal in the Deutsche Telekom-owned Scout Group, continues. In April Nicola Carbonari, co-founder and CEO of Germany's...
AIM Group | June 02, 2009 | Recruitment
The London-listed software and online recruitment company Stepstone ASA has licensed Axel Springer Polska, the Polish subsidiary of German media group Axel...
AIM Group | May 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
Hamburg-based business network Xing.com released solid results for the first quarter 2009. At the same time it confirmed what many have suspected: that it is...
AIM Group | May 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
Ingo Chu (38) has been appointed new chief financial officer of the Hamburg-based listed business network Xing effective July 1. Chu succeeds Eoghan Jennings,...
AIM Group | May 14, 2009 | Marketplaces
Ten brand manufacturers opened virtual shops on EBay.de this week and are now offering branded products at discounted prices, i.e., below the prices charged in...
AIM Group | April 28, 2009 | Uncategorized
In an interesting twist to the on-going legal battle between U.S.-based social network Facebook and German-based social network StudiVZ, the former instituted...
AIM Group | April 23, 2009 | Automotive
Another important brain drain at Germany’s Scout24 Group: Nicola Carbonari, CEO of AutoScout24.de and co-founder of the auto portal in 1998, resigned today...
AIM Group | April 09, 2009 | Uncategorized
The German e-magazine InternetWorld.de asked top managers in the industry what lies ahead for Germany's online marketers in 2009. This is what they said: Thomas...
AIM Group | April 09, 2009 | Recruitment
Despite news that unemployment is rising fast in Germany, the job portal market is as busy as ever, with new portals launching with regular intervals. Still, the...
AIM Group | April 03, 2009 | Recruitment
CareerBuilder Germany, subsidiary of the leading U.S. job portal CareerBuilder.com, seems to have lost its CEO this week. When rumors started flying earlier this...
AIM Group | April 01, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Allegro Group, the Poland-based operator of more than 30 auction and classifieds platforms in 10 East-Europe countries, will move its data center from Poland...
AIM Group | March 26, 2009 | Marketplaces
According to unconfirmed media reports, MIH Internet Europe, subsidiary of South Africa-based media group Naspers, had bought Teszvesz.hu, Hungary's second-biggest...
AIM Group | March 26, 2009 | Real Estate
Homegate.ch, the leading Swiss real estate portal effectively owned by Swiss publisher Tamedia after the take-over of Edipresse earlier this month, launched an...
AIM Group | March 18, 2009 | Marketplaces
Marcel Sennhauser resigned from his position as head of marketing and communications at Swiss auction platform Ricardo.ch earlier this week and was replaced by...
AIM Group | March 16, 2009 | Marketplaces
Almost at the same time as EBay CEO John Donahoe told analysts in the US on March 12 that the platform's focus will shift from auctions to fixed-price...
AIM Group | March 13, 2009 | Marketplaces
Tim Hilpert, 34, has been appointed as managing director of Kijiji in the three German-speaking countries of Austria, Switzerland and Germany... This content is...
AIM Group | March 12, 2009 | Recruitment
Intermingled with reports of doom and gloom in the European economy, Monster yesterday released its latest monthly reading (for February) of recruitment activity...
AIM Group | March 09, 2009 | Recruitment
Jobware.de, a leading German job portal for senior managers and professionals, received such a positive response to its promotional magazine during a 2-month test...
AIM Group | March 09, 2009 | Automotive
The tough economic environment has turned the German auto industry into a true “buyer’s market,” in which special offers and big discounts are...
AIM Group | March 03, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Swiss media company Tamedia has taken a 49.9 percent stake in Edipresse's Swiss business as the first step of a 3-step deal to be completed early in 2013 with...
AIM Group | February 16, 2009 | Recruitment
Urs Hügli, CEO of Homegate.ch, Switzerland’s biggest real estate portal, and CEO of Swiss media group Tamedia’s job portal division (called...
AIM Group | February 05, 2009 | Recruitment
Axel Springer Verlag, Germany's biggest media group, sold its minority shareholdings in a number of German regional newspapers to the Hanover-based publishing...
AIM Group | February 04, 2009 | Recruitment
Despite the financial crisis (or maybe thanks to it?) the German online job platform scene is as busy as ever, with a row of new portals launching just in the last...
AIM Group | February 04, 2009 | Recruitment
The global business network Linkedin.com finally launched its German portal this week and said the next step was to build the German job board and news offering....
AIM Group | January 29, 2009 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
The German classified portals operator Scout24 Group, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, has decided it must muster all its power to keep competition at bay. To do...
AIM Group | January 19, 2009 | Automotive
The UK/Dutch media and information group Reed Elsevier has shelved plans to sell its subsidiary Reed Business Information (RBI), publisher of, among others, the...
AIM Group | January 19, 2009 | Recruitment
Online recruitment activity dropped like a stone in a number of EU countries in the 12 months from December 2007 to December 2008. Had recruitment activity not...
