Greg Spencer | July 27, 2021 | Marketplaces
A former security officer for EBay has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $15,000 for his part in a harassment campaign carried out in 2019 against a...
Peter M. Zollman | July 26, 2021 | Marketplaces
Serial entrepreneur Brad Inman, founder of the residential real estate community Inman, has sold the company to a Canadian private equity company, Beringer...
Rebeka Shaid | July 24, 2021 | Marketplaces, People on the Move
Axel Springer classifieds subsidiary Aviv Group has appointed Bettina Curtze as the new chief financial officer. Curtze is an expert in capital markets, M&A,...
Greg Spencer | July 22, 2021 | Marketplaces, People on the Move
Nextdoor, the neighborhood networking app, has hired David Roady as head of communications. He replaces Jenny Mayfield, who moves from the role of head of...
Greg Spencer | July 22, 2021 | Marketplaces
A pair of ecommerce bloggers are suing EBay, its former CEO Devin Wenig, and several others in connection to a harassment campaign alleged to have taken place in...
Léo Siqueira | July 22, 2021 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Global marketplaces operator Adevinta reported that revenues for OLX-Brazil in Q2 this year rose 148% year-on-year. Revenue growth for OLX-Brazil includes the...
Greg Spencer | July 21, 2021 | Marketplaces
The general-goods app Mercari announced the U.S.-wide roll out of same-day, local delivery through a tie-in with Uber. The service lets buyers and sellers located...
Andrzej Sowula | July 21, 2021 | Marketplaces
Allegro, the operator of leading b-to-c and c-to-c marketplaces in Poland, has launched one-click payments in cooperation with Polish Payment Standard, the...
Leanne Wang | July 21, 2021 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Chinese home services site Swan Daojia is suspending its U.S. initial public offering plan less than three weeks after it publicly filed to the Securities and...
Alina Zaiets | July 20, 2021 | Marketplaces
Youla, the No. 2 horizontal in Russia, has published its Q1 2021 fraud report, which underlines the company’s efforts in combating fraudulent activities. In...
Alina Zaiets | July 20, 2021 | Marketplaces
Rozetka-Evo, owner of leading marketplaces Promo.ua, Kabanchik, and Shafa in the Ukraine, announced plans to expand to Brazil with Shafa.com.br, a marketplace to...
Alina Zaiets | July 20, 2021 | Marketplaces
Facebook Marketplace, the classifieds arm of the social media giant, has launched in Russia. The company will be directly competing against two primary horizontals...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | July 16, 2021 | Marketplaces, People on the Move
Turkey-based horizontal LetGo, a part of OLX Group, has appointed Selin Suzer its first chief marketing officer. Suzer (LinkedIn profile) has more than 10 years of...
Lars Herlin | July 16, 2021 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Schibsted presented an impressive Q2 report on Friday, one of the busiest day of financial reporting in Scandinavia. Schibsted’s success has proven that...
Lars Herlin | July 15, 2021 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
International classifieds operator Adevinta released its Q2 2021 Trading Report on Thursday, detailing the company’s post-COVID recovery and new plan for the...
AIM Group | July 14, 2021 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Global ecommerce giant EBay today announced that it is selling a 10.2% stake in Adevinta, the Oslo-based marketplace operator, to U.K.-based private equity firm...
Jacopo Natali | July 13, 2021 | Marketplaces, People on the Move
Singapore-based marketplace Carousell Hong Kong has appointed digital industry veteran Kevin Huang as its new managing director. Huang (LinkedIn profile) who acted...
Tariq Ahmed Saeedi | July 12, 2021 | Marketplaces
Turkish horizontal Sahibinden.com now accepts card payments in installments for used as well as new goods, the AIM Group has learned. Sahibinden has offered an...
Greg Spencer | July 09, 2021 | Recruitment, Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Blue-collar gig platform Instawork has closed a $60 million funding round, hoping that the recent labor shortage across the hospitality and logistics industries...
Rebeka Shaid | July 08, 2021 | Automotive, Marketplaces
Germany’s largest auto vertical Mobile.de is set to adjust its price range by an average of 15% on Aug. 1 for car dealers listing their ads on the company’s...
Rebeka Shaid | July 08, 2021 | Real Estate, Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
TX Markets, the marketplaces division of Swiss media company TX Group, has expanded its real estate portfolio in Switzerland with the immediate takeover of...
Andrzej Sowula | July 08, 2021 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Apax Funds-owned Baltic Classifieds Group (BCG) was admitted to the London Stock Exchange (LSE)’s main market last week. The shares opened at 179 pence,...
Lars Herlin | July 14, 2021 | Real Estate, Marketplaces
Danish real estate site Boligsiden just made a major update to modernize its site and front page, including the introduction of a new feature that remembers...
Leanne Wang | July 07, 2021 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Swan Daojia, a China-based home services marketplace, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “JIA.”...
Rachel Velebny | July 06, 2021 | Marketplaces
IAB Europe has published its 2020 AdEx Benchmark Report and while overall advertisers spent 6.3% more year-on-year, the Classifieds, Directories, and Affiliates...
Greg Spencer | July 06, 2021 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
Neighborhood networking app Nextdoor today announced plans to go public by a reverse merger with a shell company in a deal that would value it at $4.3 billion. ...
Leanne Wang | July 07, 2021 | Marketplaces, Financials / Deals
ZhuanZhuan, a general marketplace borne out of 58.Com, the largest horizontal in China, is considering raising about $400 million U.S. in a new funding round...
Angela Hawksford | July 06, 2021 | Marketplaces, REPORTS
Carousell is on its way to becoming Southeast Asia’s next unicorn Investment from Naver will accelerate it’s “classifieds 4.0” strategy Pushing transactions in...
AIM Group | July 06, 2021 | Marketplaces, REPORTS
The AIM Group has ranked the world’s Top 50 general marketplaces and classified sites by monthly visits, based on our in-house analytics and April 2021...
AIM Group | July 05, 2021 | Marketplaces, REPORTS
As part of Global Marketplaces Annual 2021, the AIM Group rounded up data about the world’s leading marketplaces and classified sites in 64 countries...
