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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2019
    #techFT
    Naspers grasps at Just Eat

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

  • 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

  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2019
    LexTechnology sector
    Naspers/Prosus: EU’s springbok tech giant Premium content

    With more than $100bn of assets, the demerger is one of the 10 largest consumer tech companies

  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2019
    Prosus debut creates €120bn European tech giant

    Naspers lists its Tencent stake to attract Europe investors

  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2019
    Naspers internet tech spin-off valued at €123bn as shares soar

    Vehicle holding Tencent stake vaults to top echelon of Europe’s most valuable listed companies

  • Friday, 6 September, 2019
    Person in the News
    Koos Bekker, South Africa’s tech king, goes global

    The Naspers chairman seeks further reinvention as he lists the company abroad

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