Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » Seznam http://pulse2.com Sun, 27 May 2012 19:13:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Eastern Europe Search Engine Seznam May Sell For Over $900 Million http://pulse2.com/2008/08/19/eastern-europe-search-engine-seznam-may-sell-for-over-900-million/ http://pulse2.com/2008/08/19/eastern-europe-search-engine-seznam-may-sell-for-over-900-million/#comments Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:39:16 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=4861 Continue reading →]]>
Seznam is the leading search engine in Czech.  Seznam has 62% search engine market-share in Czech and Google has 29%.  Rumor has it that Seznam is searching for a buyer.  Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) are in the list of speculative buyers.  Other speculative buyers include private equity firms, Warburg Pincus and Apax Partners.  Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.  (NYSE:GS) is helping Seznam shop for a buyer.

Private equity firms, Tiger Holding Four and Miura International currently own 30% of Seznam.  These two firms bought ownership in Seznam from Lycos Europe for $91 million.  This gave Seznam a valuation of $300 million in April 2007.

Seznam had about 4.4 million uniques per month as of May 2008.  Seznam expects to make 1.4 billion Czech korunas ($84 million) in revenues this year. Seznam started in 1996 by Ivo Luka?ovi?. 

According to the Quintura blog, if this deal goes through, it will be the largest Internet acquisition in Eastern Europe.

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