Directi UAE is buying back Ashmore Investment Management's stake in the contextual advertising service Media.net, reports The Economic Times. Ashmore had invested in the company in 2008 and currently owns about one-third stake in the business. Media.net founder and CEO Divyank Turakhia told the publication that Directi has already bought the India assets of Media.net from Ashmore, and they are now buying the rest of the assets. While Turakhia didn't disclose the terms of deal, ET says Ashmore will be given market value along with some more rights. Readers will remember that in September 2012, Media.net had inked a long-term deal with Yahoo to power Yahoo Bing Network Contextual Ads, which was similar to Google’s AdSense. Contextual Ads are text ads that are related to the text featured on a website and are placed on the same page. At the time of launch, the program was limited to websites that received majority of their traffic from the United States, Canada or United Kingdom, and was designed to work for websites that had premium content. Founded in 2010, Media.net currently has operation centers in Austin, Texas, and Mumbai and Bangalore in India, besides in Dubai, UAE. It has over 450 employees across these locations. The company reportedly generates revenue of over $200 million a year. Directi acquisition: HostGator owner Endurance International Group had completed the acquisition of Directi's web presence business for $109.8 million in a cash & stock deal in January this year, after initially agreeing to buy it August 2013. The deal included $82.6…
