In December 2016, TechMoran learnt that One Africa Media’s Cheki and BrighterMonday had closed shop in Tanzania and Rwanda respectively as Ringier One Africa Media grapples with strategies to run profitable ventures across East Africa. Today, we have learnt that the firm has also pulled a plug on its physical ...
SEEK's owned job aggregator Jora has quietly launched in Nigeria , it's second site the firm has launched in Africa after unveiling the site in South Africa about a year ago. Jora is partnering with Jobberman in Nigeria and will work with BrighterMonday when it goes live in Kenya. Both ...
Just a week after we got information on Ringier One Africa Media‘s plans to shut down BrighterMonday Rwanda and Cheki Tanzania, sources indicate the firm is letting go most of its staff in several markets across Africa as it reduces its active markets from 10 two years ago to just ...
There are over ten job boards and recruitment services in Kenya and all of them aim to win the market. In a move to stay ahead of all of them, One Africa Media's job listing site BrighterMonday has launched WhatsApp chat and Facebook Messenger bot to increase one-on-one communication with ...
Frontier Digital Ventures, which invests in online classifieds businesses in frontier markets with a particular focus on property and automotive verticals and general classifieds has raised US$22.9 million from an an oversubscribed IPO on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). Founded in May 2014 and headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Frontier Digital Ventures, owned by Malaysia-based ...
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 profitability or market dominance apart from a few key ...
This mid-morning Ringier Africa and One Africa Media (OAM) announced they have agreed to merge their pan-African Classifieds assets to create and grow Africa’s largest classifieds group with a new outfit dubbed Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM). ROAM is a reaction of the changing scene of classifieds business in Africa ...
Founded in Kenya in 2012 by Jamie Pujara and Nicholas Adamjee, BuyRentKenya says it currently has over 150,000 people access the site every month looking for property with about a third of these from the diaspora. The firm also said it has served over $10 billion worth of property in ...
Mr. Steve Obbayi, BrighterMonday’s Mount Everest expedition campaign ambassador and mountain climber has returned home safely after he narrowly escaped death from deadly avalanches triggered by the 7.8 earthquake that claimed lives of over 7,000 people in Nepal. Mr. Obbayi was evacuated from the mountain and arrived safely in Kenya ...
Dude, it's now confirmed. One Africa Media (OAM) group has finally confirmed in a statement to us that it has acquired 100% stake in Jobberman and BrighterMonday. This deal makes co-founders Ayodeji Adewunmi, Opeyemi Awoyemi and Olalekan Olude shareholders and Directors in One Africa Media. The trio will still act ...
Africa-focused One Africa Media has raised $10m in additional funding from Australian-based SEEK, the world’s largest online employment marketplace in cash for an additional 6 per cent equity ownership in One Africa Media. Seek first invested in OAM in June 2013. With this raise, OAM has acquired 100% of Jobberman ...
The Nigerian branch of the members of the One Africa Media group, Cheki.com.ng, Jobberman and Private Property, have officially launched their new office space at Elephant House building, 214, Broad Street, Marina, Lagos. The event which was well attended by clients, staff and friends of the companies, and members of ...
With a consultancy background and over 7 years work experience working for one of the top consultancy firms in Europe, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, Stefan Haubold, Carmudi co-founder and global MD left Roland Berger to start his own company catering to dogs and cats as his early retirement. For sometime, ...
One Africa Media's Cheki Kenya, an online car classified portal has launched Flexipay, an affordable payment plan for selected cars on its site, a move expected to double up sales for its car dealers and allow you and me buy a car of our choice. The firm says the feature ...
One Africa Media's online car marketplace, cheki.com.ng Wednesday December 10th presented free signages to dealers in Ibadan as a sign of appreciation for loyalty towards the brand over the years. The Signages were presented by Cheki.com.ng Marketing Manager, Amara Njoku. Cheki.com.ng also used the event to also hold a heart-to-heart ...
Rocket Internet's car classifieds site Carmudi has launched in Rwanda to allow users find vehicles of their dreams, in a move to be Africa's biggest car classifieds platform with recent launches in Tanzania and Congo and soon launch in Kenya. According to their new site, "Our aim is to strengthen ...
One Africa Media's BrighterMonday has launched in Rwanda in a move to help everyone in Rwanda get jobs or hire brilliant employees in the country, as internet penetration grows. Founded in Kenya in 2006 and operating in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda completes it's East African expansion in a move the ...
Accommodation marketplace SafariNow's international brand, StayNow which was launched in Kenya early this year, has shut down its operations in Kenya in what appears to be a cost cutting move for the South African based firm, also backed by One Africa Media. According to a source speaking to TechMoran on ...
One Africa Media owned car classifieds site, Cheki has launched in Tanzania in a bid to connect car buyers and sellers easily online in the country; and as well aggregate car related service providers and insurers on one site making it easy for them to be reached. Cheki's launch in ...
Launched in 2012, BuyRentKenya, Kenya's biggest online property site in revenue and listings aims to simplify property buying, selling or renting in Kenya with a few simple steps. The team says it aims to be the right place for anyone looking for property to rent or buy. "With simple steps, ...
Fraudsters across the globe collect money by running fake online job boards and recruitment sites which trick unsuspecting job seekers into paying fees for interviews and job offers which are non-existent. Some of the job websites purport to have part time, full time job opportunities from both local and international ...
BuyRentKenya, Kenya's leading online property classifieds site by revenue, ad volume and traffic and backed One Africa Media, has been nominated as the 'SME of the Year' Social Media Award at this year's Social Media Awards and is set to win. (Vote for BuyRentKenya here.) Launched in 2012, BuyRentKenya.com. was ...
One Africa Media's Private Property has launched an Android App to increase its market reach for its South African and international visitors after its iPhone release. “We can now offer our Android customers the ease of use and mobility that a smartphone app brings to their property search experience,” Grant ...
Rocket Internet's online property marketplace, Lamudi has seen online listings surpass 25,000 less than 1 year since it’s official launch a year ago, aiming at serving the over 150 million people in Nigeria. According to Managing Director, Lamudi Nigeria, Obi Ejimofo, ‘This new milestone does not come as a surprise ...
Just six months after its launch in Kenya, online hotel booking site Jovago.com has today announced it has registered its 1000th hotel in a move set to improve tourism in Kenya and beyond. The AIH-backed firm now has about 200, 000 hotels globally and close to 8,500 in East and ...
One Africa Media's property website, PrivateProperty.com.ng has announced that it has secured a multi-million pound deal to become the official property website of the Premier League, the most-watched football league in the world with a TV audience of 4.7 Billion people and broadcast in 212 countries to 643 million homes. ...
We just thought you might want to know. Africa Internet Holding's Carmudi Nigeria, an online car classified site recently unveiled its Android mobile application and also hit over 30,000 vehicles online in Nigeria and 200,000 globally. The firm says the Carmudi’s app will give users an excellent experience of buying ...
US-based startup Autogenie.tv, a new, online video-based car buying and selling platform has launched in Kenya in a move to help sellers to showcase their cars by uploading videos that provide invaluable visual information to prospective buyers. The firm says video will make buying and selling cars easier as it's ...
We are deeply sorry to announce that Carey Eaton, co-founder and CEO of One Africa Media has passed away. Carey was reportedly shot dead by thugs in Nairobi in the early hours of this morning. Eaton, 41, was shot dead by thugs at a friends home. The gang took away ...
Established in Cape Town in 1999, One Africa Media's SafariNow has rebranded to StayNow and launched in Kenya to make local travel awesome. The Africa’s largest and most established online accommodation booking site with over 20,000 listed establishments and more than a million visitors montly beating SleepOut, Jovago and Booking.com ...
