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
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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
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Naspers’s video entertainment segment – in effect, the MultiChoice business – has grown revenue by 8% to US$3.7-billion in the year ended 31 March 2018, despite warning of tougher competition from online streaming video
Naspers has put aside the proceeds of share sales in Chinese Internet giant Tencent and India’s Flipkart to pay for new investments due to the abundance of opportunities in its preferred media and technology markets
Indian start-up Swiggy has raised US$210-million (about R2.9-billion) in a round led by South Africa’s Naspers and investment house DST Global, setting a stage for a battle between well-funded players in the
The late Monday afternoon announcement that online fashion retailers Spree and Superbalist would merge ought not to have caught anyone unawares. Both e-commerce players are already majority owned by Naspers: it owns
Media24 and Takealot will merge their online fashion stores Spree and Superbalist to create a new platform for the sale of fashion goods on the Internet. The new venture will be held 51% by Media24, Spree’s current