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    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
      Naspers chief Bob van Dijk to step down

      During nine-year tenure, he oversaw internet group’s expansion including big investments in India

      Bob van Dijk in Amsterdam
    • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
      News in-depthIndian business & finance
      Byju’s taught a lesson by investors unhappy with online learning group

      Frustration with Indian start-up’s financials leads to backers quitting board and auditor resigning

      Byju Raveendran
    • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
      Naspers and Prosus to exit cross-shareholding

      South African internet group owns more than a quarter of China’s Tencent

      Naspers and Prosus chief executive Bob van Dijk
    • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
      Tencent Holdings Ltd
      Naspers confirms move of Tencent shares to Hong Kong clearing system

      Stock worth $7.6bn transferred to smooth future sales to fund buyback of South African group’s own shares

      People visit a Tencent booth in China
    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      LexProsus
      Prosus/Tencent: reducing stake further would close valuation gap Premium content

      There were plenty of missed opportunities to sell at higher prices last year

      A Tencent booth at an exhibition in Beijing
    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      Naspers to sell more of Tencent stake in bid to revive shares

      South African group and its Dutch-listed subsidiary take new measures to ignite stock

      Tencent’s headquarters building in Shenzhen, China
    • Friday, 20 May, 2022
      Naspers to sell Russia’s biggest online classifieds business Avito

      Ukrainian officials allege site hosted ads for Russian military recruitment and goods looted in war

      Mykhailo Fedorov, vice-prime minister of Ukraine
    • Wednesday, 1 September, 2021
      Due Diligence
      The ‘SoftBank of Africa’ has arrived in India Premium content

      Plus, a failed megamerger sheds light on an industry’s consolidation craze and Big Law reckons with vaccine mandates

    • Tuesday, 31 August, 2021
      LexProsus
      Prosus/BillDesk: building Indian ecosystem will help pay the bills Premium content

      Acquisition will allow Naspers’ investment arm to expand client bases at both ends of transactions

      An image of BillDesk’s website
    • Tuesday, 31 August, 2021
      Prosus
      Prosus agrees to buy India’s BillDesk for $4.7bn

      PayU business to merge with India’s oldest digital payments company after all-cash deal

      The homepage of the BillDesk website
    • Monday, 16 August, 2021
      Lex
      Naspers/Prosus: South African SoftBank divides and hopes to conquer Premium content

      Advantages of the share swap include limited tax leakage and moving asset ownership abroad

      Naspers logo on building
    • Wednesday, 12 May, 2021
      Naspers launches share swap deal with Prosus to reduce impact of Tencent stake

      Dutch-listed Prosus to acquire 45% of shares in South African parent

      The Naspers logo outside its headquarters in Cape Town, South Africa
    • Friday, 9 April, 2021
      LexTencent Holdings Ltd
      Block trades: a short walk to price discovery Premium content

      A monster block trade of a Tencent stake by Prosus is a credit to the old-fashioned accelerated book build

    • Wednesday, 7 April, 2021
      Tencent Holdings Ltd
      Tencent’s biggest investor to trim stake

      A unit of South African group Naspers to offload a 2 per cent holding but remain largest shareholder

      Tencent logo
    • Friday, 30 October, 2020
      Naspers $5bn share buyback plans signal unease with tech valuations

      Dutch-listed investment arm Prosus, best known for its stake in China’s Tencent, says move is ‘a good use of capital’

    • Wednesday, 2 September, 2020
      Passive Investing
      Tencent/Prosus/Naspers: index issues

      In the long run, we’re all long Tencent.

    • Tuesday, 14 April, 2020
      Takeaway suitor Naspers flaunts $8bn takeover budget

      South African ecommerce group insists it remains in acquisition mode

      Bob van Dijk
    • Wednesday, 15 January, 2020
      Ecommerce
      Zomato and Swiggy’s battle for Indian food delivery heats up

      After muscling out their competitors, the start-ups face a new fight for profitability

    • Friday, 10 January, 2020
      Takeaway.com
      Takeaway.com wins takeover battle for Just Eat

      Deal will create one of the world’s biggest players in the takeaway food delivery market

      An employee carries Just Eat Plc branded delivery bags from the kitchen of The Fat Pizza takeaway pizza restaurant in Southend-on-Sea, U.K., on Thursday, Dec 19, 2019. Takeaway.com raised its bid for Just Eat just minutes after Prosus NV upped its offer, intensifying a battle for ownership of the U.K. food-delivery firm. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
    • Friday, 20 December, 2019
      Just Eat Takeaway
      Just Eat’s board backs sweetened Takeaway.com offer

      Recommendation puts Dutch group within reach of merger target after a takeover battle

      Undated handout file photo issued by Just Eat of someone using their mobile phone app. Online takeaway ordering firm Just Eat is to face a full-blown investigation into its takeover of rival Hungryhouse amid concerns the deal could curb competition. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday May 19, 2017. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said its initial probe into the acquisition - worth up to £240 million - found the two firms were close competitors because of the service they offer and their reach across the UK. See PA story CITY JustEat. Photo credit should read: Just Eat/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.
    • Thursday, 19 December, 2019
      Just Eat Takeaway
      Naspers and Takeaway.com make new and final offers for Just Eat

      Takeover battle for online food ordering company enters its endgame

      FILE PHOTO: Signage for Just Eat is seen on the window of a restaurant in London, Britain, August 5, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo
    • Monday, 9 December, 2019
      LombardMatthew Vincent
      Prosus’s £5bn bid for Just Eat shows the price of competition

      New offer described as ‘derisory’ by rival, but it prices in the presence of Uber

      (FILES) In this file photo taken on December 18, 2017  logo for the app for Just Eat, a food delivery service, is seen pictured on a smartphone in London. - Prosus, Europe's largest consumer tech company, said on October 22, 2019, it had bid £4.9 billion for Just Eat, threatening the latter's agreed merger deal with peer Takeaway.com. Prosus' hostile bid, worth the equivalent of $6.3 billion or 5.7 billion euros, comes one month after a stunning stock market debut left it flush with cash. (Photo by BEN STANSALL / AFP) (Photo by BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)
    • Monday, 11 November, 2019
      Just Eat Takeaway
      Takeaway.com seeks to reassure investors over Just Eat merger

      Chief Jitse Groen said new company could withstand well-funded rivals such as Uber and Deliveroo

      The Netherlands, Amsterdam, 11 November 2019. Portrait Jitse Groen, CEO Takeaway.com at undisclosed location. Photo: Bram Belloni / (c) 2019, www.belloni.nl
    • Tuesday, 22 October, 2019
      #techFT
      Naspers grasps at Just Eat

      SoftBank rescues WeWork, Anduril’s drone killer, Infosys probe, Google Nest Mini

      T4J55P Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 17th April, 2019, UK Weather: Sunny summer day over the west end of the city and locals and tourists make the most of the temperatures by taking to the city centre streets. Credit Gerard Ferry/Alamy Live News
    • Tuesday, 22 October, 2019
      Just Eat Takeaway
      Just Eat rebuffs hostile £5bn bid from South Africa’s Naspers 

      UK food delivery group agreed merger with Takeaway.com in July

      FILE PHOTO: Signage for Just Eat is seen on the window of a restaurant in London, Britain, August 5, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo
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