Startups are taking up the slack (and profits) in Switzerland’s booming property market having spotted a relatively small but lucrative niche in the management and marketing of vacant properties for temporary use.
Flatfox.ch, a digital real estate startup based in Zürich, has secured investment from the Investis Group, as well as from Ringier and Helvetia, in a joint financing round announced today.
Swiss recruitment company JobCloud recently announced that the CVs of inactive candidates will be available for recruiters to access in the jobs.ch CV-Pool for longer.
Online reseller site RicardoShops.ch went offline at the end of 2016.
Staff Finder AG, the Zurich-based marketplace for temporary staff, launched a new segment dedicated to the - not so typical - temporary healthcare jobs niche. Staff Finder claims to be the first, just-in-time, online broker for temporary work worldwide.
Swiss Ringier's auto vertical AutoScout24.ch introduced a new classified product for private auto sellers: The site refunds the insertion fee for unlimited-term listings if vehicles are still unsold after four months.
Business network Xing touted its newest product - the ReferralManager (EmpfehlungsManager) - at the Zukunft Personal, the HR management trade fair in Cologne, after launching it earlier in October.
The list of speakers at the ICMA Autumn Conference in the Kursaal Hotel, Bern from October 19 to 21 is taking shape very nicely, to put it mildly.
Stefano Santinelli will become CEO in October of Swisscom Directories, the web catalog business jointly owned by media house Tamedia and telecom venture Swisscom.
Despite growth in its digital business, Swiss media group Tamedia reported a 22 percent drop in net income based on lower revenue in the first half of FY16.
