The European e-scooter market is currently the main battleground for companies playing in the micromobility space, taking advantage as they are of Europe’s relatively compact cities and the desire o
It’s never easy, deciding which of the 20 companies that make it into the Disrupt Battlefield Competition will be anointed its winner. There’s just so much at stake each year, and at Disru
South African internet conglomerate Naspers is best known for backing Chinese tech giant Tencent, but it also operates a vast network of online classifieds businesses. That network just got a little l
Naspers, the South Africa conglomerate that invested in China's Tencent among others, is upping its stake in Russia-based Avito, the third largest classifieds site in the world, by way of a $1.2 billi
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.accel.com">Accel Partners</a> has just this morning announced another hefty fund of $475 million. It's the company's fourth fund for Accel London and will be used f
South Africa's Naspers has agreed to merge its two Russian online classified Web site with Avito in a $570 million deal that will make Avito the world's third biggest classified site after Craigslist
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<a target="_blank" href="http://Avito.ru">Avito.ru</a>, the biggest online classified ads site in Russia, has secured a fresh $75 million round of funding from Accel Partners' London office. Founded i