PE firm Permira says it has bought a 10.2% stake in Norway-listed online classifieds giant Adevinta, worth €1.9B, from eBay
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Norway's grocery delivery service Kolonial rebrands as Oda, raises €223M at a €750M post-money valuation, led by SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 and Prosus
and rebrands as Oda Dan Taylor / Tech.eu : Norway's online grocer Kolonial bags €220 million, rebrands as Oda Tweets: @alex : Seeing VF2 more and more often, it's like a mini Tiger https://twitter.com...
Autodesk buys Spacemaker, which uses AI to help architects, urban planners, and developers make design decisions, for $240M in a mostly all-cash deal
Autodesk, the U.S. publicly listed software and services company that targets engineering and design industries, has acquired Norway's Spacemaker …
Norway-based classified ads publisher Adevinta acquires eBay's classifieds business unit in $9.2B deal
Consolidation continues apace in the world of e-commerce, and today it was the turn of the classified ads market. Today, eBay announced that it had reached a deal to sell off …
Sources: eBay is in advanced talks to sell its classified ads business to Norway's Adevinta for ~$8B
Deal could value eBay unit at roughly $8 billion or more — EBay Inc. EBAY -0.89% is in advanced talks to sell its classified-ads business to Norway's Adevinta AS ADE -0.69% A …
Lightspeed POS, a Montreal-based payments software company, has agreed to buy German POS systems developer Gastrofix for ~$61M in cash and ~$40M in shares
131 amazing new team members in Berlin and Hamburg serving businesses in Germany, Austria, Norway, and further solidifying our lead position in EMEA! https://www.theglobeandmail.com/ ...
Telecommunications company Orange has acquired Basefarm Holding, a Norway-based cloud infrastructure and critical application services company, for €350M
Major European telecom operator Orange has acquired Basefarm Holding AS, a Norwegian-founded cloud infrastructure …
How 21-year-old Opera sold for $1.2B and why CEO Lars Boilesen and CTO Håkon Wium Lie are ambivalent about it
Opera's $1.2B sale: Shocking underdog victory or cruel twist of fate 21 years in the making? — The news that Norway's Opera Software accepted a $1.2 billion buyout offer …
Groupon Exits Sweden, Denmark, Norway And Finland In Ongoing Global Retreat
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After slower than expected growth, Opera Software considers sale, hires investment bankers to help with strategic review
Norway's Opera warns on growth, says firm may be sold — * Says has interest from a number of parties — * 2015 revenue now forecast lower at $600 mln to $618 mln