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Yuppiechef Is Being Bought For A Pretty Tidy Sum
15 Mar 2021 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This morning, news broke that Mr Price has reached an agreement to buy 100% of Yuppiechef in an all-cash deal.
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The SA-Born Billionaire Who Just Bought The LA Times For R6 Billion Was Once Sued By Cher
09 Feb 2018 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Patrick Soon-Shiong might be America’s wealthiest doctor, but his reasons for buying one of the country’s most popular newspapers stem from growing up in South Africa.
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Google Wanted To Pay More for WhatsApp – So What Happened?
21 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In the days leading up to Facebook’s $19 billion purchase of WhatsApp, Google CEO Larry Page was willing to beat Facebook’s offer. So what happened that caused WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum to decline Google?
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Google Has Bought Navigation App ‘Waze’ For Just Over $1 Billion
12 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
There has been some serious courting from Google, Apple and Facebook, all wanting to get their hands on navigation app ‘Waze’. But finally the love square has been disolved and Google stands victorious.
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ABSA Has Taken Over Edgars Store Cards
07 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa’s largest bank has announced that it will be taking over Edcon’s unsecured lending portfolio, which is fancy speak for all of its store cards. This is the bank’s largest investment since the takeover by Barclays a few years ago.
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Google Wants To Be Your Travel Agent, Too
15 Sep 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
I’m not clear on why we would still need travel agents or anything, but if we do, Google Flights, launching today, is up to the task. Initially only available in a couple of US cities, Google Flights is the first result we’ve seen of Google’s acquisition of travel software company ITA back in April.
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