ServiceMagic, Match.com do well for IAC Q4
IAC, which operates more than 50 Internet businesses across 30 countries, just reported impressive quarterly growth in areas that include search, Match.com and ServiceMagic. Continue reading
Controlinveste discontinues printed classifieds paper Ocasiao
Naspers merges OLX and KalahariAds in SA
By Christo Volschenk
In December last year Cape Town-based media group Naspers merged its free small ads platform KalahariAds.net with OLX.co.za, another free small ads platform owned by the company. All ads listed on KalahariAds were moved to OLX on Dec. 20, 2011, the company said. Continue reading
Dealfind launches YesMom in Canada
With everyone and their brother getting into the daily deal business model, it’s time to start specializing. Toronto-based Dealfind has decided that moms need their own site and has launched YesMom in Calgary, with more Canadian cities due to be added throughout 2012.
What kind of deals are moms interested in? Says YesMom: family memories, fashion, health and wellness, home decor and prenatal products. And one more: security tags from a company called “RescueMoi” that you can put on your phone, keys, wallet to help them find their way home if they get lost. Is YesMom saying something about moms being scatterbrained? We sure hope the same product finds its way onto YesDad, if the company chooses to launch a sister (or is that brother) site.
Dealfind is one of Canada’s biggest deal sites. The company says it helped its customers save “close to $400 million through nearly 1.7 million purchased vouchers since launching in 2010.” The site is active in 29 markets across Canada, as well as a number of U.S. cities. A mobile app launched in November, 2011.
Canadian startup powers latest Groupon feature
A quick piece of Groupon news with a Canadian spin: the group-buying powerhouse purchased a Vancouver startup called OpenCal in Sept. 2011. Last month, Groupon began a pilot test of “Groupon Scheduler”, which the Canadian website TechVibes says is directly based on OpenCal’s software.
Groupon Scheduler is an online appointment service that provides merchants with an easy way to manage their schedules and accept bookings from consumers.
OpenCal launched at the end of 2010, so the acquisition was quick, although probably not overly lucrative. OpenCal was co-founded by Shiva and Simon Vallee, who also helped to found Sitemasher, another Canadian web service, which was acquired by Salesforce.
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