The proposed acquisition of the French real estate portal SeLoger by Axel Springer AG (a major german media company) threatens to become a bidding race. A few days after the offer of Axel Springer, a big Australian investment-fonds has invested in the French internet company. The Australian fonds named Caledonia just acquired 10% of the shares. Originally Axel Springer wanted to pay round about 500 million € for the SeLoger-acquisition. The German Media Company already owns 12,4% of the french real estate website. In addition to the new investor Caledonia, there also seems to be other companies that are interested in SeLoger (the newspaper “Le Figaro” and the French company “Lagardere”). The Paris-based SeLoger has over the years developed into a very profitable online-business within the real estate-market.

In February of this year, the two German internet entrepreneurs Dirk Schwartz and Tim Stracke bought Chrono24 – a marketplace for high quality watches. With the additional purchase of the Australian competitor WatchChoice, they are now going to establish an international market leader. The price for WatchChoice.com was not disclosed yet. The WatchChoice-founder Glenn Palmer will from now on support the further expansion of the two businesses in Asia and Australia. Chrono24 operates in 25 countries and is based in Karlsruhe (Germany).

The Manchester based social games developer Playdemic was recently bought by the USA based RockYou. Founded in 2005, RockYou is one of the leading developers of social games and is also inventing in the space of advertising solutions for social media. In the future Playdemic will, according to RockYou, operate independently as a subsidiary studio and develop Facebook games for a mainstream audience.