Like many other businesses globally, Recruit Holdings witnessed a tumultuous period this past quarter. However, its revenue showed signs of recovery in July.

Brasil Online, the Seek-owned company that owns jobs vertical Catho in Brazil, saw revenues in fiscal 2020 decline once again. Seek said revenues for Catho fell 13% in FY2020, year-on-year, to BRL154 million ($27.5 million U.S.). According to data from Seek, this is the sixth consecutive full-year revenue decline since 2016. Seek blamed Covid-19 for […]

HR tech vendor Jobvite has acquired the AI and data science team at Predictive Partner, a company focused on improving business processes in a variety of industries.

Adevinta Spain has acquired Barcelona-based aggregator and job board JobIsJob.com and its data tool, Job Market Insights. Schibsted and Grupo Intercom were its two main shareholders, according to its website. The financial terms and number of shares purchased were not disclosed.

British recruitment platform Tempo (heytempo.com) has secured £5 million ($6.1 million U.S.) in a series A funding round led by the Adecco Group.

The leading recruitment site in Nigeria Jobberman.com, recorded a 183% rise in monthly vacancy posts after launching its #UnityInAdversity campaign in April.

Nigeria-based recruitment site Jobberman.com, has launched an online test product Skills Assessments, to help employers determine core competency levels of job seekers during recruitment. 

Recruitment verticals in Russia and Ukraine are adapting to the ongoing Covid-19 crisis in a bid to cut losses.

Jobcase, a blue-collar networking site and job board, has rolled out online recruitment tools to connect workers with jobs in essential industries.

Lisbon-based Landing.Jobs, a job matching platform for tech professionals, has raised 2 million euros ($ 2.2 million U.S.) from Portuguese investment group LC Ventures and Jacobo UG Investment.

Job listings aggregator Talent.com (formerly Neuvoo) has discontinued its affiliation with programmatic ad platform ClickIQ, stating in a LinkedIn post that the deal “has not proven to be successful or mutually beneficial.”

Upshift, a Cincinnati-based gig platform, has raised $3.7 million in a funding round coordinated by Indeed and led by Indeed’s parent-firm Recruit Holdings.

Coople operates in Switzerland and the U.K. Its U.K. business has seen significant growth in 2019 after starting operations early in 2018. “It was a bit bumpy early on,” said founder and executive chairman Viktor Calabrò,

Outstanding performance from its job verticals led Japanese crowdsourcing company Crowd Works Inc. to turn over Y2.3 billion ($21 million U.S.) in sales in the first quarter of the financial year. That amounted to an increase of 15.5% year-on-year.