Secondshaadi: BharatMatrimony buys serial entrepreneur Vivek Pahwa's SecondShaadi.com

Matrimony.com Ltd, which owns online match-making firm BharatMatrimony, has acquired SecondShaadi.com from Accentium Web Pvt. Ltd, the company said in a stock-exchange disclosure. Matrimony.com received board approval for the acquisition on Thursday. It did not disclose the value of the deal. "Buying SecondShaadi will help us consolidate our offerings and help divorcees and widowers get wider choices than ever before," Murugavel Janakiraman, chief executive of Matrimony.com, said. Like SecondShaadi.com, Matrimony.com also operates a platform for divorcees called DivorceeMatrimony.com. In September 2016, the Bombay High Court had ruled in favour of SecondShaadi.com against a petition filed by People [...]