Norwegian media company Schibsted has released its Q3 2017 report announcing revenues grew 10 percent to NOK 4,161 million, whereas the EBITDA was NOK 783 million (572 million). Company CEO Rolv Erik Ryssdal said the positive results were due to a combination of Schibsted's business models. "We are happy to present a strong Q3 result for Schibsted, with an EBITDA increase of 37 percent. As earlier this year, the growth is a result of achievements in both Online classifieds, Publishing and Schibsted Growth," Ryssdal said. Online classifieds The company operates a number of winning online classifieds sites and marketplaces which list, among

Homebeat.Live – a Slack-style messenger service for apartment buildings – has closed its angel funding round, receiving an undisclosed six-digit round of funding  from leading finance and real estate professionals. The current round of funding was backed by: Olivier Catusse, Christian Eustermann, Dr. Philipp Eustermann, Thomas Goslich, Johannes Helke, Marc-Olaf Hilgenfeldt, Thomas Kratz, Sebastian Kropp, Gunnar Kühne, Alexander Loos, Kim Niedernolte, Nico Rheims, Dr. Joachim von Rheinbaben, Jörg Schürmann, Johannes Siekmann and Xaver von Sivers. Homebeat.Live is based in Berlin and claims it's the first freemium B2C solution which enables individuals to drive long-overdue digitalisation of the building in which they live – free of charge,

FlyHomes, which has offices in Seattle and Chicago, and was set up by two former Microsoft veterans, says it's raised $4 million in a funding round intended to help it accelerate product development and boost its marketing efforts. The company's chief executive officer Stephen Lane, based in the Chicago office, said that the local HQ will play a prominent role in accelerating the company’s next growth stage. “We opened up our Chicago office early this summer under the radar, and we’ve been having a ton of success here,” he told the BuiltinChicago website. “We expect to grow our team here rapidly.”

BuyMyPlace, the real estate platform that enables Australians to sell their properties without paying fees and commissions to real estate agents, has recorded record revenue of $692K for September quarter (Q1) up 48% on prior corresponding period (PCP), and continues to grow. Key points Gross Profit of $476K up 46% on PCP Average Order Value (AOV) up 31% on PCP (excluding MyPlace Conveyancing) 4,500 properties sold, c.$2.4bn in property value. Record property sales in Q1 of 419 The online company, which labels itself as a disruptor, claims it has broken its own records and bucked the market trend by lodging record revenue,

Barcelona-based VC-funded machine learning company Restb.ai has been included on the list of the top 5 hottest AI startups in Europe by American technology firm Nvidia. The nominees were selected from among the 700 European startups already chosen to participate in Nvidia’s Inception program, which accelerates the development of startups involved in AI and deep learning. These are early stage companies. The Restb.ai team. Image: Supplied The Inception Awards continue the series of events in Silicon Valley and China in conjunction with their GPU Technology Conference world tour. Their Inception virtual accelerator program supports more than 1,900 AI startups with

It has been announced that Marc Duijndam, the current CEO of Dutch property portal Funda, will depart the company to take up the position of CEO at Sanoma Media in Belgium from January 1, 2018. Duijndam succeeds Peter de Mönnink and will report to Sanoma CEO and President, Susan Duinhoven and will also join the Sanoma Executive Management Group. Marc Duijndam will take over as CEO of Sanoma Belgium in 2018. Image: LinkedIn Funda is the largest Dutch real-estate classified site and Duijndam has previously held positions as Country Director of Google in the Benelux, advisor to LinkedIn’s European management

Zillow Group, which houses a portfolio of the largest and most vibrant real estate and home-related brands on mobile and Web, has announced new products to help Premier Agents deepen their connections with clients and build their own personal brands through new technologies in the Premier Agent App. Zillow Group's evolving tech features will streamline agent-client communication and allow agents to appear as a client's only buyer's agent for listings they view on Zillow or Trulia®. These features were unveiled at the Zillow Group Premier Agent Forum in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Premier Agent Forum is an annual event that brings together

Domain has released its new, six-part online content series, The Circle, which explores what happens when two couples living in inner-city Melbourne and Sydney decide to move to Noosa. Created by Felix Williamson, co-director, screenplay author and star of Domain’s INMA-award winning video series Avalon Now, and brought to life by producer, Hamish Roxburgh, The Circle follows two couples who decide to leave their poky apartments in Sydney and Melbourne for a new, more affordable life in Queensland’s beautiful, sub-tropical Sunshine Coast.  One character from Bondi decides to become a real estate agent.  Over six episodes, the characters endure the trials and