Christo Volschenk | March 05, 2013 | Marketplaces
Business network LinkedIn DACH (short for Germany, Austria and Switzerland) has a managing director again. After twelve months on auto-pilot (well, almost) Till...
Christo Volschenk | March 05, 2013 | Marketplaces
The Craigslist/Jameslist trademark dispute has been settled and Craigslist got what it wanted, namely a name-change. But, Jameslist landed a last-minute punch that...
Lars Herlin | March 04, 2013 | Automotive, Marketplaces
The Swedish Internet company 203 Web Group increased its sales by 73.7 percent to €3.8 million ($4.9 million U.S.) in 2012, but made a loss for the year of...
Sharon Hill | March 04, 2013 | Marketplaces
In the midst of yet another Craigslist killer trial comes the launch of safety-conscious Chairish.com. For, not only does it offer products not commonly found on...
Sharon Hill | March 04, 2013 | Marketplaces
Evening Post Publishing Company Selects Adpay to Enhance Print and Online Classifieds Platforms Adpay, Inc. to provide four portal sites to increase the value of...
Talal Abu Issa | March 03, 2013 | Marketplaces
Online classifieds platform Dubizzle.com intensified its efforts to grow both user traffic and content listings across Egypt. Dubizzle used many methods to achieve...
Steve Shipside | March 01, 2013 | Marketplaces
EBay France is closing down the classifieds section of its site effective as of the 18th of March in what will be seen as capitulation in the face of arch rival...
Sharon Hill | March 01, 2013 | Recruitment, Marketplaces
While Facebook isn't saying so, its acquisition of Atlas might just pave the way for a more aggressive recruitment advertising battle with LinkedIn and other...
AIM Group | February 28, 2013 | Marketplaces
A January rebound in the number of online ads for escorts and body rubs boosted revenue at Backpage.com and pushed the total revenue from online prostitution...
Jim Townsend | February 27, 2013 | Marketplaces
Mort Goldstrom, former VP at Newspaper Association of America (NAA), has been named SVP bizdev for SurveyUSA. The survey and research firm will be offering its...
Christo Volschenk | February 27, 2013 | Marketplaces
The founders of Nigerian job portal Jobberman and Nigerian discussion forum (with classifieds) Nairaland made it onto the Forbes magazine list of Africa’s Best...
Jim Townsend | February 27, 2013 | Marketplaces
While the Daily Deals industry struggles, its first and foremost provider, Groupon, moves away from its early "emailed deal-a-day" format. This new strategy has...
Christo Volschenk | February 26, 2013 | Marketplaces
That's the question. The answer: it depends on the market. When your market is the Philippines, you're lucky. Then you can go quite some way down that road -...
Christo Volschenk | February 25, 2013 | Marketplaces
Mocality Kenya and Nigeria, the Naspers-owned business directories launched in 2010 and 2011 respectively, will shut down on Febr. 28, the company said (here). The...
Christo Volschenk | February 25, 2013 | Marketplaces
If anyone still lived under the illusion that all was well in the world of the daily deal, then this news will wake him up: Google withdrew from Germany's...
Jim Townsend | February 25, 2013 | Marketplaces
Google tried, but failed, to buy Daily Deals giant Groupon. So now it's making yet another attempt to compete for Daily Deals dollars, with Offer Extensions. Still...
Sharon Hill | February 22, 2013 | Recruitment, Marketplaces
Want to know more about becoming a client? Click here.? While it's not just about jobs, WeAreMadeInNY.com IS about putting folks to work, and kicking the local...
Sharon Hill | February 21, 2013 | Marketplaces
Craigslist, the classified giant presently embroiled in a listing-license courtroom battle is at the same time handing out licenses for mobile access to its...
Christo Volschenk | February 20, 2013 | Marketplaces
Susan Duinhoven (photo), CEO of Thomas Cook Western Europe since Jan. 2012, has been appointed CEO and chairman of the board of Dutch media group Koninklike...
Christo Volschenk | February 19, 2013 | Marketplaces
After 25 successful years in senior management positions at Schibsted Media Group, most recently as executive vice-president responsible for sales, Gunnar...
Jim Townsend | February 18, 2013 | Real Estate, Marketplaces
Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff and Trulia CEO Pete Flint made Forbes' Magazine's 2013 America's Most Powerful CEOs under 40 list. Qualifiers, besides being 39 or...
Christo Volschenk | February 18, 2013 | Marketplaces
EBay Germany enlarged its top management cadre when it appointed dr. Horst Tripp to the new position of director responsible for business development at EBay...
Sharon Hill | February 15, 2013 | Marketplaces
The new AdGlue advertising platform was founded by Ben Ilfeld, who also founded the online-only, mostly community-contributed Sacramento Press. AdGlue has yet to...
Jim Townsend | February 15, 2013 | Marketplaces
Among the list of Fast Company's 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2013 are Pinterest at number 8, Airbnb at number 12, Ford at number 27, and Yelp at number 30....
Sharon Hill | February 14, 2013 | Marketplaces
Based on its new Local Marketplace, some stock analysts have now upgraded Daily Deals giant Groupon to buy status. We see another innovation as well that might...
Cristina Costa | February 14, 2013 | Marketplaces
Another surprising move from Naspers in Portugal: After the acquisition of local online classifieds company Fixe Ads last September (see our report here) and the...
Christo Volschenk | February 13, 2013 | Marketplaces
Oslo-listed Schibsted Media Group (SMG) today released solid results for its online classifieds business in FY2012, despite the fact that its new ventures hit a...
Jim Townsend | February 12, 2013 | Marketplaces
Twitter has just expanded its relationship with American Express - one that started with Daily Deals implementation - to kick off what might seriously rival other...
Christo Volschenk | February 11, 2013 | Marketplaces
The German re-commerce market is growing rapidly. Re-commerce players buy and re-sell stuff - mainly used electronic goods, books, games, DVDs, CDs and software,...
Jim Townsend | February 08, 2013 | Marketplaces
According to its Q4 2012 earnings call, AOL grew global advertising revenue by 13 percent year-over-year. AOL's local news platform Patch.com was not part of that...
