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西班牙电信Telefonica购得西班牙社交网站Tuenti90%的股权

发布时间:2010-09-15 14:47:14 Tags:,,

据Aimgroup的消息,西班牙当地领先的电信公司Telefonica注资并购了西班牙当地相当火爆的社交网络Tuenti。EI pais报道的数据是以9300万美元的高价获得90%的控股权,而路透社的报道数据仅为85%。

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Telefonica并没有公布详细的收购细节,但是他们让将保留以Zaryn Dentzel为首的整个管理团队,并以此巩固他们在年轻用户中的位置。

据尼尔森的调研显示facebook在西班牙独立用户7月份达到1470万,而Tuenti则有560万的独立用户。一旦联合Tuenti,Telefonica就将拥有1400万的独立用户。

Tuenti创建于2006年1月,主要用户是针对14到25岁的年轻人,注册该网站的条款比较严谨,需要现有用户的邀请才能获得加入允许。

Tuenti2008年收益为54.5万欧元,息税前净亏损289万欧元。而Telefonica今年上半年的营收是2905万欧元,净利润为453万欧元。

The leading Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica S.A. has bought  a majority stake at the Spanish social network Tuenti.

El País reported that a source familiar with the agreement said the deal involves a takeover of 90 percent of shares, which cost Telefonica about €70 million ($ 93 million U.S.). Reuters reports its sources speak of an 85 percent participation of Telefonica in Tuenti.

Telefonica, which did not provide financial details in its press note, said it would maintain the same management team headed by Zaryn Dentzel at Spain’s busiest website in terms of traffic. Telefonica said it hopes to strengthen its Internet position by services that are being sought by young people.

Shortly after the deal was disclosed, Bernardo Hernández, who is Google´s worldwide director of marketing for consumer products, announced his departure from Tuenti’s board of directors. He also sold all of his shares in Tuenti. Hernández has invested through his venture-capital company Bonsai Venture Capital in the last years in some of the most promising Spanish Internet start-ups, such as property portal Idealista and Web directory 11870.com, now owned by Vocento.

Rumors say the departure of Hernández, as a Google representative, was the key premise for the deal, for which negotiations had silently started already this spring. Telefonicas CEO César Alierta has been one of the telecommunication heads that claims loudly new legal regulations, which gives telecommunication operators a financial remuneration from Google´s ad business revenues.

In buying into Tuenti, Telefonica S.A. shut down Keteke, the social network it launched in 2008.

According to Nielsen NetView,  Facebook led the Spanish market with 14.7 million unique users in July, compared with Tuenti’s 5.6 million unique users.  Kateke had only traffic from 198,000 users in July.

Together with Tuenti, Telefonica has a Web online audience of about 14 million unique users.

Tuenti is an invitation-only social network primarily aimed at people between 14 and 25 years old. It went live in January 2006, while Facebook started in February 2008.

The last financial details about the company are from 2008. Tuenti then reported a business volume of about €545 thousand and a negative EBIT of €2.89 million. Telefonica reported for the first half-year revenues of €29.05 million and a net income of €4.53 million Telefonica announced also that it will launch a new business area to expand revenue from data technology services, developing a specific network for video content delivery and entering the market of eHealth, applications, security and financial services, cloud computing and machine to machine Internet communications.

One move in this direction of becoming more an Internet content provider company was already last year´s acquisition of Internet-based telecommunications company Jajah. At the “Mobile World Congress” in February Telefonica presented also with Haiku, an innovative technology for real-time interaction through mobile micro-services that is supposed to be used as personal classifieds services.(source:aimgroup)


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