Naspers said on Thursday that it’s leading a new investment round, worth $30-million, in Polish-founded peer-to-peer learning community Brainly. Other investors are Runa Capital and Manta Ray.
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Bob van Dijk received almost R1.9-billion in salary, incentives, and vested share options and shares appreciation rights in the year to March 2019, a regulatory filing published on Friday shows.
A finding by the commission last week regarding MTN’s empowerment scheme’s contravention of the B-BBEE Act will have wide implications for similar schemes operated by other listed companies.
When Walmart paid $16-billion for control of India’s e-commerce pioneer Flipkart Online Services from investors, including Naspers, last year, the US retail giant got a little-noticed digital payments subsidiary as part of the deal.
Naspers’s global fintech company, PayU, is expanding into Southeast Asia with the acquisition of Singapore-based Red Dot Payment.
A little more than 100 years ago, Naspers was created by white South Africans to produce a Dutch-language newspaper. Now the continent’s biggest company, Naspers just named its first woman, and first black person, as CEO.
Naspers has appointed Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa as CEO of its South Africa business. It’s a newly created executive position, and Mahanyele-Dabengwa will report directly to CEO Bob van Dijk.
VALR.com will offer ether-rand trading from next week as the cryptocurrency exchange, backed by former FNB CEO Michael Jordaan, ramps up its efforts to tackle Naspers-backed market leader Luno.
TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod spoke to Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk about the group’s acquisition, through Naspers Foundry, of a stake in SweepSouth, the controversy over the group’s dual shareholding structure, and more.
Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk believes cryptocurrencies could have a huge and positive impact on societies by allowing for frictionless and costless transfer of value between people.