** Affiliate Marketing Company Acquired for $1.7 BILLION (yes BILLION) by Chinese **
Category Managing Work, Life & Money
This is white hat affiliate marketing done at a large scale, and a whopping exit!
Travel Affiliate Marketing Company Skyscanner sold to China’s Ctrip in £1.4bn (US$1.7bn) deal
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/nov/24/skyscanner-sold-to-chinas-ctrip-in-14bn-deal
The travel search website Skyscanner has been bought by Chinese counterpart Ctrip.com in a deal worth £1.4bn (US$1.7bn).
Ctrip.com International, China’s biggest online travel company, said it had agreed to buy Scotland-based Skyscanner Holdings.
Skyscanner, a result of chief executive and co-founder Gareth Williams’s frustration with finding cheap flights, enables users to compare prices from different travel sites when searching for plan ...