Mail.ru sells Dating site Mamba
The company Mail.Ru Group plans to dispose of its own shares in the Mamba Dating service. Therefore the owner of this well-known resource "Finam" will be able to buy the service fully.
Previously Mail.Ru the Group has already sold all the shares of the recruitment portal HeadHnter, now on-line Dating service Mamba, which is a Russian legal entity JSC "Mamba". Currently the company is owned by 31,19% of the shares of the service. All other percent of the shares has the "Finam".
The price of shares shares owned Mail.ru not called, but it is estimated at more than billion. "Fair value Mamba - level 4-5 billion, respectively, of the package Mail.Ru Group can cost about 1.4-1.6 billion", - informs the head of the analytical Department at FC AForex Artem Deev.
The main candidate for the purchase of shares is called directly "Finam". "We certainly are open to negotiations on the purchase of the package at Mail.Ru" - quoted by Izvestia as President and Chairman of the Board of investment holding Finam Vladislav Kochetkov.
Mamba works on the freemium model, in which the user receives the main list of features for free, and pay for the additional features - for example advertising their own questionnaires in the overall ranking of the profiles of the users of the web site. The service has more than 36 thousand affiliate pages. They create their own segments of Dating, which, though executed in its own design, but give access to a single database user Mamba.
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