AdPerfect is the latest partner to join the reconstituted Local Media Consortium (LMC). AdPerfect will bring its four key products --- online obituaries, classifieds, celebrations and retail ads --- to the LMC’s 1,700 media sites in the U.S..
GlowRoad, a female-focused reseller network, became the first, c-to-c online marketplace in India to raise venture-capital funding ($2 million U.S.) in a Series A round from Accel Partners, reported Economic Times.
Schibsted-owned LeBonCoin, France’s dominant horizontal classified site, just launched a messenger for its IOS app.
In a blog post, Benjamin Schneider, OLX's Berlin-based head of engineering, lifted the lid over the payments system his team developed in-house for rollout to OLX Group sites around the world. The payments service is known as Plutus. While the post is really about the technology stack they chose to build Plutus, Schneider sheds some light on the functions of the system.
Sendo.vn, a c-to-c marketplace in Vietnam, enables online merchants to sign up for Google’s Shop Ads service on the Sendo site and started giving them tips to improve their digital marketing.
The Yellow Pages business directory in the U.K., published by Yell Group, will stop printing as of January 2019. Printed Yellow Pages directories, which launched in the U.K. in 1966 and publishes 104 local editions, will become online-only in an attempt to update the brand and move its business online.
Japan’s used-goods marketplace Mercari.com partnered with Yahoo! Japan to curb the trade of counterfeit products and protect consumer rights in person-to-person transactions, a news release said on Monday.
In Australia, EBay-owned Gumtree, wants to become the “Google” of buying and selling things — cars, in particular.
Xianyu (闲鱼), a mobile used goods transaction platform and local social network, will institute real-name registration and other high-tech identity verification tools this week, the company announced.
Xianyu (闲鱼), a mobile used goods transaction platform and local social network, will institute real-name registration and other high-tech identity verification tools this week, the company announced.
