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Ringier Sells BuyRentKenya to Rushbox

Ringier consolidates its digital marketplaces portfolio across Sub-Saharan Africa and has sold its Kenyan real estate portal, BuyRentKenya, to Rushbox Ltd., who is operating leading real estate platforms in Mauritius and Zimbabwe. The deal gives Ringier time to strengthen its...
Tech

Ringier buys out SEEK from Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM) | Increases its stake close to 100%

Ringier has entered into an agreement to acquire all shares in Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM) from its co-shareholder SEEK Ltd. as well as from the two other minority shareholders Jabavu Limited and Ceatonia Limited. The closing of the...
Startups

EXCLUSIVE: Ringier Acquires 100% of BuyRentKenya

BuyRentKenya has now been fully acquired by Ringier One Africa Media and will phase into ROAM (a joint venture in the making between Ringier and One Africa Media) in a move to build Africa’s largest classifieds group. Speaking exclusively to...
Startups

Ringier, Ghafla partnership to diversify editorial content for the entertainment platform

As part of its continued expansion, Ringier Africa Digital Publishing (RADP), Ringier Africa’s publishing company, will work with Kenya’s top entertainment website ‘Ghafla’ (www.Ghafla.co.ke/). The partnership sees Kenya’s leading entertainment platform relaunch and enhance its editorial output, by diversifying...
Business

Ringier & Silvertree Acquire Nigerian Online Shopping Platform ​DealDey

Ringier AG and South African Silvertree Internet Holdings (Pty) Ltd have acquired Nigeria’s biggest deals platform DealDey for an undisclosed amount. The details of the partnership are sketchy but Silvertree and Ringier must be in a 50-50 deal as they...
Business

Ringier Achieving remarkable success in Africa

Ringier just said it's seeing remarkable success in Africa and it has got off to an excellent start in 2015, with revenue in the first quarter of the new year four times higher than in the last quarter of...
Business

Ringier’s Pigiame launches marketplace for retailers

Kenya’s second largest online marketplace, PigiaMe, has launched a retail section in a move to help SME's establish a strong online presence and reach its over 140,000 monthly users. Unlike most classifieds which allow their users to only list single...
Business

Ringier’s Ady.ng wants to be Nigeria’s biggest marketplace with a difference

Just days after we broke the news of OLX-TradeStable's merger, Ringiers' Ady.ng (formerly Kiramu) sems to be gearing up for the coveted number two position in the Nigerian onlne market to serve the country's 170m+ people. Speaking in a statement...
Tech

SimplePay’s COO Rich Tanksley Steps Down | Joins Ringiers’s Pulse.ng as CEO

SimplePay's Chief Operating Officer Rich Tanksley will be stepping down from his role as COO and will become a member of the SimplePay Advisory Board. Mr. Tanksley joined SimplePay in June of 2014 on behalf of Seedstars, a Swiss venture...
Tech

Ringier Africa acquires ZoomTanzania.com, Tanzania’s No. 1 Classifieds Portal

Founded in 2009, ZoomTanzania.com is the largest classifieds site in Tanzania, with over 3 million monthly page views. 10 employees are working out of Dar-es-Salaam to make ZoomTanzania.com the third most visited Tanzanian website, generating reach and awareness for the country’s top brands....
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CEO Weekends: Ringier Kiramu is Now Ady.ng

We realized that Ringier's Kiramu is no longer and Ady.ng had taken it's place and we thought the rebranding was horrible but we were wrong. Speaking to TechMoran, Christopher Bjergmose, Project Lead Ady.ng for Ringier Nigeria said the firm...
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Ringier’s Kiramu Rebrands to Ady.ng But Doesn’t Make Any Sense at all

Ringier is trying to make everything work even if it doesn't make any sense. Recently it rebranded Kiramu.ng, an online and mobile web based classifieds platform which connected buyers to sellers to ady.ng and we think the name is...
Business

Ringier Africa purchases ZoomTanzania.com

Ringier Africa now has the majority of stakes in Tanzania’s classified platform ZoomTanzania.com. The acquisition will give Ringer Africa access to five countries in Africa. ZoomTanzania was founded in 2009 and has been in the fore front in classified business...
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Ringier Africa Claims Successful First Half-year as Parent Firm Sells Out

Ringier Africa has announced its sites Rupu in Kenya,  Tisu in Ghana, Pulse,  Allsports in Ghana and Expat-Dakar, Senegal's largest classified marketplace which the firm acquired a majority stake in this year have recorded a successful first half-year. Ringier, which...
Business

CEO Weekends: Ringier’s Rupushops Dies a Good Death as Founders Move On

Last year in November, Ringier's daily deals site Rupu introduced Rupushops.co.ke, an online store for safe and secure online shopping in Kenya where buyers could find everything from computers and mobile phones to fashion accessories and the latest music...
Startups

CEO Weekends: Ringier & Swiss Coach Ottmar Hitzfeld to Officially Launch AllSports.com.gh

Ringier Ghana has invited the twice UEFA Champions League Winning Coach, twice World Coach of the Year, and current coach of the Swiss National Team, Mr. Ottmar Hitzfeld in Ghana to officially launch their sports site, AllSports.com.gh. According to the...
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CEO Weekends: Daily Deals Site Chukuabargains.com Goes Mainstream to Take On Ringier’s Rupu Kenya

Online deals site ChukuaBargains.com, is going mainstream to help shoppers in Kenya shop for deals and as well as to help users gain access to a variety of quality offers, goods and services without having to leave the comfort...
Startups

Ringier’s Kiramu, a Pigiame Clone Goes Live In Nigeria to Take on OLX & Tradestable

Swiss-based digital media, entertainment and internet firm Ringier.com, has launched Kiramu.ng, a classifieds ad portal for Nigeria. Kiramu.ng is similar to Kenya's Pigiame. Kiramu is an online and mobile web based classifieds platform that offers buyers and sellers a unique opportunity...
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Africar Group’s AUTO24.africa acquires Tazania’s Kupatana & Zoom marketplaces

AUTO24.africa, the used car marketplace by Africar Group, backed by Stellantis, has acquired Kupatana.com, the leading general online classifieds in Tanzania which previously merged with Zoom Tanzania, its main competitor. The acquisition by AUTO24.africa and Africar Group from Euroafrica...
People

Meet Erick Wilson Wafula as he shares on how BrighterMonday aims  to bridge the African talent gap

BrighterMonday was established in 2006 and has grown to become Kenya’s leading job matching platform. It is part of The African Talent Company (TATC) Group which runs the BrighterMonday platforms in East Africa (Uganda & Kenya) and the Jobberman job-matching platforms...
Startups

ROAM Jobs Rebrands To Become The African Talent Company

 Africa’s  recruitment marketplaces ROAM  has rebranded to The African Talent Company under the leadership of Hilda Kabushenga Kragha and its shareholders Swiss Ringier AG and Australian SEEK Ltd. Formerly operating under the name of ROAM Jobs, The African Talent Company...
Startups

Nigeria’s Autochek Acquires Car Classifieds Platforms Cheki Kenya & Cheki Uganda in Pan-African Expansion Move

Autochek, Nigeria's automotive technology company facilitating auto financing across Africa has acquired ROAM Africa's (Ringier One Africa Media) automotive marketplaces Cheki Kenya and Cheki Uganda in its pan-African expansion move. Autochek says the deal will be finalised within the following...
Startups

Roam Africa shuts down BrighterMonday Tanzania, EverythingDar & Cheki

ROAM Africa, is calling it a day in Tanzania in a move to cut operational costs, focus on its major markets, and grow to profitability, as the Ringier-owned operation tries to make sense of marketplace business in Africa. ROAM Africa...
Startups

With over $170m war chest, Nigeria’s Cars45 launches in Kenya

Cars45, a Nigerian automotive trading platform operated by Frontier Car Group, which raised $22m from EchoVC in 2017, $58m in May 2018 and $89m in the same month from Naspers, has launched in Kenya. The firm is promising Kenyans the...
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PigiaMe Wants to be Kenya’s ‘Gikomba’ Market Online

PigiaMe, an online classifieds site run by Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM), has launched “uza chap-chap” campaign to help local mwananchi easily declutter their homes and offices via its app. With the uza chap-chap campaign, PigiaMe aims to...
Startups

Lateral Capital leads Series A round into Kenya’s blue-collar jobs marketplace Lynk

Lateral Capital, which has invested in a number of companies including Appzone, Asoko Insight, Koko Networks, Sparkmeter, Workstyle, Medsaf among others has invested into Kenya's Lynk, a blue-collar jobs marketplace for local growth. The investment was led by Lateral Capital's...
Startups

Register to be a part of Lagos Startup Week 2018

The Lagos Startup Week, an annual event which brings together a lot of tech stakeholders, investors, developers, designers, entrepreneurs to make pertinent discussions about the Nigeria (Lagos) tech ecosystem. This would be achieved by taking masterclasses to Pitch sessions,...
Startups

First all-female Investor panel set for 4th Angel Fair Africa

The 4th Angel Fair Africa is set to have its first all-female “Investors Panel” on the first day of the 4th Angel Fair Africa from the 10th to 11th November 2016 at the Intercontinental Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya. Laila Macharia, Angel...
Business

SEEK invests $2m into One Africa Media, lowers its valuation over increased losses for Jobberman, Cheki

    SEEK, the leading provider of online employment services in Australia and New Zealand is not giving up on Africa yet, even though its portfolio companies continue raking in losses in millions of dollars and are on no clear path to...
Startups

Remembering One Africa Media’s Carey Eaton

12 months ago today, Carey Eaton, co-founder and CEO of One Africa Media passed away in Nairobi in the early hours of that fateful morning. At a prime age of 41, Carey was a dear to Nairobi's tech scene and...
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