by Jim Townsend | Jul 5, 2015 | Real Estate
An alliance of U.S. real estate brokers continue filling the leadership team needed to create a national consumer-facing multiple-listing service. Former Trulia exec Alon Chaver has joined Broker Public Portal’s board of managers – one of two outside directors allowed...
by Jim Townsend | Jul 3, 2015 | Marketplaces
Greeks can no longer use PayPal to transfer money, financial news site Quartz reported today. Financial controls in place to staunch the flow of money bleeding from Greece have crippled the service, which relies on banks and credit cards to transfer funds. Quartz also...
by Jim Townsend | Jul 1, 2015 | Marketplaces
PayPal has acquired Xoom Inc., a money-transfer service provider with a footprint in China and Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries, for about $890 million, or $25 a share for the publicly traded company (Nasdaq:XOOM). Interesting timing, given that EBay...
by Jim Townsend | Jun 25, 2015 | Recruitment
CareerBuilder this week officially launched CareerBuilder1, a recruitment-management system for employers. The software suite integrates functions that are part of the entire recruitment cycle, from creating requisitions to job postings to organizing candidate data to...
by Jim Townsend | Jun 3, 2015 | Marketplaces
Nice article in Internet Retailer featuring EBay’s Devin Wenig, who’ll be EBay’s CEO as soon as the PayPal spinoff is complete. In it, Wenig acknowledges his challenges to redefine EBay after PayPal. “EBay has to stand for something unique in the world,” Wenig told...