The Chinese Internet giant, best known for its popular games and ubiquitous messaging services, has shed more than $150-billion in market value since a January peak.
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Naspers’s Video Entertainment unit, which has oversight of DStv parent MultiChoice, has created a new Connected Video unit and appointed a CEO to lead it.
The Chinese Internet giant, in which South Africa’s Naspers holds a 31.2% stake, has tumbled 25% from its January peak, erasing about $140-billion of market value.
Naspers is considering the listing of certain parts of its sprawling global media and technology business outside South Africa as the continent’s largest company by market value seeks to reduce its size.
Tencent has become one of the most aggressive promoters of pro-gaming. And it’s hard to overstate the mania that’s gripped China in particular.
Just 10 years ago, publishing and media accounted for 89% of Naspers’s revenue. Today, 79% of its revenue is derived from e-commerce and Internet businesses – and is growing.
Bob van Dijk is rolling in the riches. The CEO of Naspers received almost R1.5-billion in salary, bonuses and vested share options and appreciation rights, during the 2018 financial year, which ended on 31 March.
Chinese Internet giant Tencent, in which South Africa’s Naspers has a 31.2% stake, is planning to spin off its online music entertainment business and list its shares in the US through a public offering, the company
When Chinese media company StarTimes entered Ivory Coast’s pay-TV market two years ago, Canal+ appeared to take notice. A few months later, the unit of France’s Vivendi cut the cost of its decoder by a third. StarTimes has
Naspers has acquired Tiger Global Management’s stake in South Africa’s largest e-commerce retailer Takealot, and now owns an effective 96% (91% fully diluted) of the business. This was revealed in its provisional