May 18, 2012
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May 8, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
When the 4-year contract of Xing CEO Stefan Groß-Selbeck (44) runs out in January 2013, he will not be available for a second 4-year term. The listed company announced today that Groß-Selbeck elected not to renew his contract and will leave the company in January 2013 “to accept new challenges”. Xing is the leading business network and biggest social recruitment medium in the German-speaking region....
April 23, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
Journalists have a new pastime. It’s called “trawling LinkedIn for unannounced senior management moves”. I was at it again today and uncovered a gem: Naspers lured a senior manager away from competitor Schibsted.Last week I wrote Hein Pretorius, CEO of MIH Internet Europe, must be searching for a new CEO for Allegro Group, since Grzegorz Wójcik isn’t CEO of Allegro Group any longer. He...
Traffic to U.S. websites that publish escort and body-rub ads hit a record in March, while five of those sites sold at least $3.2 million in online prostitution ads during the month.
March revenue from online prostitution ads increased 2 percent from the previous month and 8.6 percent from March 2011, according to estimates by the AIM Group, and it was just $60,000 short of the record set in January.
There were 6.1 million unique visits to 22 tracked sites, according to...
April 20, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
Poland-based Allegro Group, a subsidiary of MIH Internet Europe, which is in turn a subsidiary of South Africa-born media group Naspers, is in the midst of a restructuring process, which recently saw Allegro CEO Grzegorz Wójcik being moved to the position of head of corporate relations at MIH Internet Europe and Hein Pretorius, Amsterdam-based CEO of MIH Internet Europe, assuming the role of CEO of Allegro Group on top of his job in Amsterdam....
April 12, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
Jacob Aqraou (photo), senior vice president of EBay Marketplaces Europe, created a new position at the top of the German team, changed the reporting lines of senior management and announced a number of internal promotions in his Berlin-based team.According to a media release, Aqraou created the new position of vice president EBay Marketplaces Germany and promoted Bob van Dijk (photo), current head of EBay’s...
April 5, 2012
By Christo Volschenk
Christian Unger (44) handed his job as CEO of Ringier, Switzerland’s biggest media group, over to a colleague Marc Walder (46) and left the company. A Ringier media release said Unger “will be accepting new responsibilities”. A spokesman in Ringier’s communication department confirmed Unger will be looking for new responsibilities outside Ringier. He also said he can’t be more specific, because “Unger doesn...
March 22, 2012
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By Christo Volschenk
Helmar Hipp, CEO of VM Digital and the print business of Quoka in Germany since 2005, will move to photo book publisher Ifolor as CEO in June. VM Digital and Quoka are subsidiaries of Vorarlberger Medienhaus (VM), an Austrian media group owned by the...Online prostitution advertising generated at least $3.1 million in revenue in February on five U.S. websites, an increase of 9.8 percent compared with the same month last year, but a drop of 3.8 percent from a record high in January.
Nearly 80 percent of the revenue was attributed to Backpage.com, which generated at least $2.5 million from the sale of online ads for escorts and body rubs in 23 U.S. cities. February prostitution-ad revenue at Backpage.com increased 36.5 percent...