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Prosus
Prosus N.V., or Prosus, is a global investment group that is investing and operating across sectors and markets with long-term growth potential. It is among the largest technology investors in the world. Prosus has invested across multiple verticals, including social / gaming, classifieds, payments and fintech, edtech, food delivery and ecommerce. Products and services of its businesses and investments are used by more than 1.5 billion people in 89 markets. Prosus is majority-owned by South African multinational Naspers. In September 2019, Prosus's ordinary shares were listed on Euronext Amsterdam and, as a secondary inward-listing, on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Subsequent to its , Prosus is the largest consumer Internet company in Europe by asset value. Shares in the company were reported to have "soared on debut," although the company was trading at a significant discount to the value of its portfolio. Business The group's expansion into Internet platforms began in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naspers
Naspers Limited is a South African multinational internet, technology and multimedia holding company headquartered in Cape Town, with interests in online retail, publishing and venture capital investment. Naspers' principal shareholder is its Dutch listed investment subsidiary Prosus, which owns approximately 49% of its parent as part of a cross ownership structure. Founded in 1915 by attorney W. A. Hofmeyr, Naspers was the largest publishing company in South Africa throughout the 20th century with interests across newspapers, magazines and books. In the 1980s the company began to diversify, launching a subscription television service and investing in markets outside of South Africa for the first time. In 2001, Naspers made an early investment in Chinese technology firm Tencent and became increasingly focused on the global consumer internet sector. In 2019, Naspers listed its global internet investment business unit Prosus (including a 31% stake in Tencent) on Euronext Amster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IFood
iFood is a Brazilian online food ordering and food delivery platform, operating in Brazil and Colombia. The company holds over 80% market share of the food delivery sector in Brazil. It is owned by Dutch-based Prosus (part of Naspers) and its Brazilian investment firm Movile. It merged its businesses in Argentina and Colombia with rivals PedidosYa in August 2018 and Domicilios.com in March 2021 respectively, brands of Delivery Hero which is also owned by Prosus. It operated as ''SinDelantal'' in Mexico until December 2020. History iFood was founded in 2011 by Patrick Sigrist, Guilherme Bonifacio, Eduardo Baer and Felipe Fioravante. Movile owns iFood as a subsidiary, with Just Eat owning a 33% stake in iFood until 2022. Naspers provided funding when iFood had just started. It serves customers in Brazil and Mexico. It connected 15,000 restaurants to customers who collectively placed four million orders every month in 2018. iFood had £123.8m in sales, making it 16 times lar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delivery Hero
Delivery Hero is a German multinational online food-delivery service based in Berlin, Germany. The company operates in 50+ countries internationally in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East and partners with 500,000+ restaurants. Delivery Hero has increasingly branched out beyond food delivery, and is a leading player in the emerging category of quick commerce, which delivers small batch orders in under an hour. In the third quarter of 2021, Delivery Hero processed 791 million orders - that equals a year-on-year growth of 52%. While Delivery Hero is headquartered in Germany with offices worldwide, as a " gig economy company" (akin to Meituan, Uber or Airbnb) nearly all of the company's deliveries are carried out by workers using motorcycles, bicycles and cars, dispatched via the company's smartphone apps. In general, and in contrast to recent legal precedents in Canada and Australia, Delivery Hero does not classify these couriers as employees. This policy has led to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swiggy
Swiggy is an Indian online food ordering and delivery platform. Founded in July 2014, Swiggy is based in Bangalore and operates in 500 Indian cities as of September 2021. Besides food delivery, Swiggy also provides on-demand grocery deliveries under the name Instamart, and a same-day package delivery service called Swiggy Genie. History In July 2014, the two founders, Sriharsha Majety and Nandan Reddy, designed an e-commerce website called Bundl to facilitate courier service and shipping within India. Bundl was halted and rebranded to enter the food delivery market. At the time, the food delivery sector was in turmoil as several notable startups, such as Foodpanda (later acquired by Ola Cabs), TinyOwl (later acquired by Zomato) and Ola Cafe (later closed) were struggling. Majety and Reddy approached Rahul Jaimini, formerly with Myntra, and founded Swiggy and parent holding company Bundl Technologies in 2013. In early 2019, Swiggy expanded into general product deliveries und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tencent
Tencent Holdings Ltd. () is a Chinese multinational technology and entertainment conglomerate and holding company headquartered in Shenzhen. It is one of the highest grossing multimedia companies in the world based on revenue. It is also the world’s largest company in the video game industry based on its investments, with Tencent Games being the subdivision of Tencent Interactive Entertainment Group (IEG) focused on publishing of games. Founded in 1998, its subsidiaries globally market various Internet-related services and products, including in entertainment, artificial intelligence, and other technology. Its twin-skyscraper headquarters, Tencent Seafront Towers (also known as Tencent Binhai Mansion) are based in the Nanshan District of Shenzhen. Tencent is the world's largest video game vendor, as well as one of the most financially valuable companies. It is among the largest social media, venture capital, and investment corporations. Its services include social netwo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Eat
Just Eat (formerly known legally as Just Eat plc) is an online food order and delivery brand of Netherlands-based Just Eat Takeaway.com, and a former food delivery company. Just Eat was founded as a separate company in 2001 in Kolding, Denmark, and headquartered in London, United Kingdom from 2006 until its merger in 2020. Just Eat acts as an intermediary between independent takeaway food outlets and customers. The service operates under this brand name in seven countries. The platform enables customers to search for local takeaway restaurants, place orders and pay online, and to choose from pick-up or delivery options. The company Just Eat plc acquired SkipTheDishes in Canada and Menulog in Australia and New Zealand. It was listed separately on the London Stock Exchange until it was acquired by Takeaway.com in February 2020; the two companies were merged to form Just Eat Takeaway.com, which replaced Just Eat's listing on the London Stock Exchange. History Five Danish entr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VK (company)
VK, known as Mail.ru Group until 12 October 2021, is a Russian technology company. It started in 1998 as an e-mail service and went on to become a major corporate figure in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet. VK operates an e-mail service, an Internet portal Mail.ru, and popular Russian social networking platforms VK, Odnoklassniki and Moi Mir. Additionally, VK manages various e-commerce, transport and communication platforms. It also offers business-oriented products, including a corporate email and communication system. In 2014, VK's sites reached approximately 86% of Russian Internet users on a monthly basis and the company was in the top 5 of the largest Internet companies based on the number of total pages viewed. In October 2021, Mail.ru Group was renamed VK Company Limited, after its most popular product, VKontakte. History The business was originally owned by Port.ru, a company founded in 1998 by Eugene Goland, Michael Zaitsev and Alexey Krivenkov as a sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A2X Markets
A2X Markets is a South African stock exchange. It was founded by Sean Melnick, Ashley Mendelowitz and Kevin Brady, individuals with experience in financial markets and technology. Their goal was to create a new South African exchange to bring healthy competition to the South African marketplace. A2X is an MTF styled stock exchange A stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse is an exchange where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock, bonds and other financial instruments. Stock exchanges may also provide facilities for th ... that was awarded a licence to operate an exchange by the Financial Services Board, now Financial Sector Conduct Authority ( FSCA) on 6 April 2017. On 6 October 2017, A2X debuted with 3 listings African Rainbow Capital, Peregrine Holdings and Coronation Fund Managers and a combined market cap of R14 billion. Listed securities References {{Greater Johannesburg, econ Stock exchanges in South Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AEX Index
The AEX index, derived from Amsterdam Exchange index, is a stock market index composed of Dutch companies that trade on Euronext Amsterdam, formerly known as the ''Amsterdam Stock Exchange''. Started in 1983, the index is composed of a maximum of 25 of the most frequently traded securities on the exchange. It is one of the main national indices of the stock exchange group Euronext alongside Euronext Brussels' BEL20, Euronext Dublin's ISEQ 20, Euronext Lisbon's PSI-20, the Oslo Bors OBX Index, and Euronext Paris's CAC 40. History The AEX started from a base level of 100 index points on 3 January 1983 (a corresponding value of 45.378 is used for historic comparisons due to the adoption of the Euro). The index's peak to date was set on 26th October 2021 816.91 After the dot-com bubble in 1999, the index value more than halved over the following three years before recovering in line with most global financial markets. The AEX index dealt with its second largest one-day loss on March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avito
Avito is a Russian classified advertisements website with sections devoted to general goods for sale, jobs, real estate, personals, cars for sale, and services. Avito is the most popular classifieds site in Russia and is the biggest classifieds site in the world. In January 2019, it had more than 10.3 million unique daily visitors. On average, Avito's users post more than 500,000 new ads daily and the overall ads are about 60 million active listings. In 2015''-''2019, the Russian Forbes put the service in third place in the list of the most expensive companies of the Runet, estimating it at $4.9 billion. History Avito was founded in 2007 in Moscow. In 2010, Avito.ru collected a large amount of capital from venture capitalist Northzone. In 2012, Avito launched in Egypt and Morocco, where in a few months became those countries' biggest classified ads site. In 2013, Avito merged with its Russians competitors Slando.ru and OLX.ru to become the Russian market leader for classifie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An estimated 8 million Ukrainians were displaced within their country by late May and 7.8 million fled the country by 8 November 2022, while Russia, within five weeks of the invasion, experienced its greatest emigration since the 1917 October Revolution. Following the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution, Russia annexed Crimea, and Russian-backed paramilitaries seized part of the Donbas region of south-eastern Ukraine, which consists of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, sparking a regional war. In March 2021, Russia began a large military build-up along its border with Ukraine, eventually amassing up to 190,000 troops and their equipment. Despite the build-up, denials of plans to invade or attack Ukraine were issued by various Russian gove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Kirienko
Vladimir Sergeevich Kiriyenko (russian: Владимир Сергеевич Кириенко; born 27 May 1983) is a Russian business executive and media manager who is the CEO of VK, a popular Russian social networking service. He previously served as vice president of Rostelecom, one of Russia's leading long-distance telephone providers. Kiriyenko is the son of Kremlin official Sergey Kiriyenko. Early life and education Kiriyenko was born 27 May 1983, in Nizhny Novgorod. He is the son of Sergey Kiriyenko. Kiriyenko graduated from the Higher School of Economics in 2005. He completed an executive Master of Business Administration from the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO in 2014. Career From 2005 to 2011, he was the chairman of the board of directors of the VolgaTelecom and a member and chairman of the board of directors of Sarovbusinessbank. From 2008 to 2011, Kiriyenko was head of the board of directors of Nizhegorodpromstroybank. In 2011, he became chairman of Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
