Rafat Ali
Sep 29, 2009 2:46 AM
Naspers, the South African media giant, is continuing on its online acquisition spree across Europe and now Latin America: it has acquired 91 percent stake in Brazilian online e-commerce group Buscape.com, for $342 million. Buscape provides comparison shopping solutions to more than 100 portals and websites in Latin America, including…
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Robert Andrews
Dec 18, 2007 8:25 AM
European online auction site Tradus, the former QXL Ricardo, has agreed to be sold to South African media group Naspers as expected—but for even more than forecast over the weekend. The pair agreed to $36.32 (£18) per share, valuing Tradus at almost $2 billion (£946 million)—36.7 percent higher than the…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Nov 20, 2007 2:39 PM
South Africa-based Synthasite, a service that makes it easy to build a website, has raised a $5 million first round from Swiss-based Columbus Venture Capital. The company has developed a simple, drag-and-drop system for use by people with little or no web knowledge—a bit of a Geocities 2.0 perhaps? It…
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