The Luxury Closet, a Dubai-based ecommerce platform for pre-owned luxury goods raised $2.3 million in fresh funds, as their 2nd part of their growth fund, and closed its growth round with $11 million. This second closing of the round was led by Knuru Capital, recently established VC from Abu Dhabi. They raised […]
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On a International Women’s Day, long awaited site for handmade products Dirura has been launched in Belgrade, Serbia. Dirura aims to become Etsy of the region of ex-Yugoslavia. Region of ex-Yugoslavia is still untapped area in many Internet categories and although there are some well known ecommerce (auction and classified) […]
Orange Telecom has completed the sale of the oldest Polish horizontal portal Wirtualna Polska (wp.pl). The final price amounted to 383 mln PLN. Meanwhile, one of the buyers, O2 Group (o2.pl), has sold 20% of its shares to the fund MCI Management. The combined O2/WP is now the biggest portal […]
More and more Polish Internet users are using dating sites. Every 7th user in the country does it. These website are most popular among men, people over the age of 55, users with vocational education – these are the main conclusions of the analysis conducted by the research company Gemius. […]
Amazon, the American giant and one of the world’s biggest internet trading networks, plans to open three large logistics centers in Poland by 2015. Within three years of their creation, Amazon will create 6 thousand of new workplaces. The company has just started to recruit for so-called ‘fulfillment centres’ and […]