Robert Andrews
Mar 9, 2009 11:27 AM
Online ticket marketplace Seatwave has landed a good online entertainment client, as it continues slugging it out with rivals like Viagogo. MTV will use the site as its ticketing partner for MTV.co.uk, which relaunched for the umpteenth time on March 1. Perversely, for such a long-running site, MTV says this…
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Robert Andrews
Sep 3, 2008 2:45 AM
Atlas-funded secondary ticket exchange Seatwave is buying Dutch equivalent Skelper (which sounds suspiciously like “scalper”) for an undisclosed amount. Ticket resale is illegal in Holland unless through an official channel like Skelper has arrangements with Feyenoord, PSV Eindhoven, FC Groningen and others. For Seatwave, it’s part of an international expansion…
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Robert Andrews
Aug 7, 2008 3:01 AM
Secondary ticketing exchange Seatwave is hiring former Camelot interactive director Richard Hurd-Wood as its COO and UK MD. Hurd-Wood set up online operations for the lottery operator in 2001 and led its third successful bid for the lotto license. He previously held roles at AOL (NYSE: TWX) and Dell, but…
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Robert Andrews
Jul 14, 2008 6:14 AM
Online secondary tickets marketplace Seatwave has made a high-profile appointment to its board. News Corp (NYSE: NWS) Europe’s chairman Marty Pompadur is joining as a non-executive director, and is likely to invest in the company. That follows its appointment of CFO Aksel van der Wal from Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) and…
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