Rocket Internet

Looks like things aren't exactly rosy at ecommerce cloning giant Rocket Internet at the moment. A couple of weeks ago, he company revealed that it was scuppering its Chinese operations. Now it's downsizing in Nigeria.Rocket Internet only launched its Nigerian presence a couple of months ago, but is reportedly ...

When Rocket Internet launched its Nigerian Amazon clone, it was always just going to be a matter of time before it launched another site in the country.The German-based startup incubator's latest ecommerce property is called Sabunta -- a shoe and fashion site that runs along the same model as ...

German cloning giant Rocket Internet has officially launched Kasuwa, its Nigerian Amazon-style ecommerce site.The company made its first big forays onto the continent with a number of properties in South Africa. These include a stake in Groupon, shoe and clothing site Zando, and make up testing service Glossybox.Prior ...

We've mentioned online furniture sales outfit 5rooms previously. It's part of German startup incubator Rocket Internet's stable of South African ecommerce sites, but it hasn't had the same kind of exposure as the likes of shoe and fashion outlet Zando. That all looks set to change.Memeburn got its hands on ...

Zando has hit the African continent. The ecommerce outfit has been building a presence in South Africa for the last three months. The local stores in the country, like the Naspers-owned Kalahari and the newly relaunched Takealot are about to get some serious competition. Zando is an online shoe ...

German-based cloning giant Rocket Internet is set to open up an Amazon-style ecommerce site in Nigeria.The company made its first big forays onto the continent with a number of properties in South Africa. These include a stake in Groupon, shoe and clothing site Zando, and make up testing service ...

Rocket Internet is set to launch a price comparison site in South East Asia called PricePanda.The German-headquartered startup incubator has made something of a global empire for itself from cloning successful ecommerce business models.In fact, a recent article from GigaOm pegged the number of companies owned by Rocket ...