Naspers

ibibo.com is backed by multi million media conglomerate, Naspers, which has principal operations in electronic media (including pay-television, internet and instant-messaging, subscriber platforms and provision of related technologies) and print media (including publishing, distribution and printing of magazines, newspapers and books, and the provision of private education services). Naspers is headquartered at Cape Town, South Africa, with operations located in Sub-Saharan Africa, Greece, Cyprus, the Netherlands, the United States, Thailand, China, Russia, Poland, Brazil and India. Naspers other internet businesses include Tencent and Mail.ru. Tencent operates the brand QQ in China. QQ is a dominant Instant Messaging and Portal player with more than 80% market share in the country. Mail.ru is ranked as the number one email service for Russian speaking users..

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Our global operations

Internet

Tencent

Tencent was founded in Shenzhen, China in November, 1998 and operates the brand QQ. QQ is a dominant Instant Messaging and Portal player with more than 80% market share. Today QQ is a movement in China. It has 715.3 million registered users and 288.7 million active Instant Messaging accounts. It is listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange with a market cap of 6Bn dollars.

Sanook.com

Sanook.com was established in 1998. Sanook! is a leading Internet brand in Thailand with large number of traffic. Sanook! provides entertainment, infotainment, communication, social networking and mobile services for its users. Sanook! has also launched a Thai version of QQ IM for Thai users.

Mail.ru

Mail.ru was founded in 1998 and is a leading provider of internet and communication services to the global Russian-speaking community. Ranked as the number one email service for Russian speaking users, it markets and provides a wide range of communication services. At present Mail.ru has some 30 million unique monthly visitors, and over two billion monthly page views.

Key Statistics for Mail.ru:

- Largest player on the Russian e-mail market
- #2 instant messaging service provider
- Dominates certain key verticals including travel, dating, photo sharing and others
- Significant online search
- 70% of Russian internet users use the portal

24.com and M-Web – ISP, Portal

M-WEB was launched in 1997 by the multinational media group, Naspers. For the past eight years, it has been South Africa’s leading Internet Service Provider, and has now expanded its operations to other parts of Africa and the Far East.

M-Web is also active in the business-to-business ("B2B") and business-to-consumer ("B2C") e-commerce markets. It offers various on-line services to large corporations and to the small and medium enterprise ("SME") and small-office-home-office (" Soho") markets. These services include web and server hosting, business mail solutions, domain name registrations, leased line access, application service provision, web development and e-commerce solution development.

M-Web had approximately 300,000 dial-up subscribers and 44,000 broadband ADSL subscribers.

Key Internet properties in South Africa:
- 24.com – SA #1 community portal
- Kalahari.net – Leading e-commerce portal in SA
- News24.com – news portal

Nimbuzz

Nimbuzz was started in Netherland in 2006,and aims to change the face of mobile communications. Nimbuzz through its application allows to connect the 2.2 billion global users of mobile devices with the 1.1 billion global Internet users in real time and for free. The application supports multi-directional voice, presence and messaging between mobile devices and PC’s. The service is available on more than 500 different types of phones in over 35 different countries.

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Pay TV

The group offers terrestrial analogue, digital satellite and other pay television services to some 2.3 million households through its subsidiaries and joint ventures, in two regions:

• the African continent (South Africa and the rest of sub-Saharan Africa), and
• the Mediterranean (Greece and Cyprus).

The group aim is to be the leading supplier of pay television services, to offer high-quality content, continually improve customer care and to offer new services and technology. In each market the group transmits a package of 50 to 80 channels, including premium movies, major sports events and popular children’s programming. The company has recently launched a DVBH (a Mobile broadcast technology) services in SA and also in Nigeria.

Print

Media24 is the leading print media concern in Africa. It publishes some 74 leading magazine titles and 58 newspaper titles. In addition, Media24 is establishing internet businesses that draw on existing areas of expertise, and are rapidly evolving as leaders in their specific segments.

MIH holds a 30% stake in Brazil’s leading magazine publisher, Abril. MIH also holds minority stakes in Titan and Hong Kong listed Beijing Media Corporation.

The book division of the group, Afrika, consists of publishers, agents and niche retailers and distributors. Another group company, Educor is the leading provider of private education in Africa.

Technology

Irdeto is a world leader in technology for the securing of content from concept to consumer. It specialises in end-to-end solutions to protect content from unauthorised access in the television broadcast, mobile and internet environments.

Entriq develops content protection and subscriber management services for broadband markets, allowing channel providers to reach small audiences not otherwise serviced through traditional TV channels.

MediaZone is the group initiative to leverage broadband to reach small audiences not otherwise serviced through traditional TV channels. Mediazone has invested in building web portals where niche content is offered via subscription packages. These channel categories include sport (eg rugby and figure skating), international (eg ChinaPortal and KuduClub, niche portals for Chinese and South African expatriates, respectively) and lifestyle.

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