Linda Karlsson | October 30, 2008 | Marketplaces
Alma Media Group's net sales increased 5 percent compared to the same period last year, but the operating profit fell behind (€12.2 million in 2008, €...
AIM Group | October 29, 2008 | Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
By Nirmalya Sen Info Edge (India) Ltd on Oct. 24 announced results for the quarter ended September 30. The company reported net profit after tax of Rs 156.7...
AIM Group | October 26, 2008 | Marketplaces
Dutch media are reporting that MySpace is closing its Amsterdam office, having failed to gain traction against Hyves.nl, a Dutch social networking site. The...
Linda Karlsson | October 21, 2008 | Marketplaces
The goal to stay the No. 1 auction Web site in Sweden was the reason EBay-owned Tradera.com recently reduced the auction fees. At the same time, the format of the...
bruce oren | October 17, 2008 | Marketplaces
An interesting twist today in the “Craigslist murder” – the sad case of...
Linda Karlsson | October 13, 2008 | Marketplaces
Pat Kolek, COO of EBay Classifieds, says the company plans still more acquisitions in the classified advertising field. .. This content is available free to...
AIM Group | October 09, 2008 | Marketplaces
By Jim Townsend With reporting from Katja Riefler and Christoffel Volschenk EBay announced this week it would lay off about 1,000 full-time employees in its global...
AIM Group | October 08, 2008 | Marketplaces
<!–> <! st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } –> EBay has stripped its German subsidiary of its functions marketing and auction platform management...
AIM Group | October 07, 2008 | Marketplaces
MIH Europe, a subsidiary of South African media group Naspers, bought the Hungarian online auction site Vatera.hu for $9 million, the Hungarian financial...
Katja Riefler | October 06, 2008 | Marketplaces
EBay just announcedthat it has acquired Den Bla Avis and BilBasen -- providers of leading online classifieds sites in Denmark -- for a purchase price of...
Katja Riefler | October 06, 2008 | Marketplaces
Turbulent times at EBay -- the company held a predawn conference call today to say it was laying off 10 percent of its global workforce, or about 1,000 permanent...
Linda Karlsson | October 04, 2008 | Marketplaces
A new player has entered the Swedish classified-search market. Annonskartan ("classifieds map") was launched Oct. 2 by contractor Ted Valentin. Annonskartan.se...
AIM Group | October 02, 2008 | Marketplaces
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark says he believes that advertisers will use print increasingly less. "Print is going to become a luxury medium, but it will happen...
bruce oren | September 22, 2008 | Marketplaces
For a while, even before she worked on the Romney campaign for U.S. president, people have been...
bruce oren | September 16, 2008 | Marketplaces
We’ve written about it before in CIR; now The Wall Street Journal is reporting it too....
bruce oren | September 01, 2008 | Marketplaces
Here at Classified Intelligence, we have an acronym we use about once a week: “YACLW.” It stands for “yet another Craigslist wannabe.”...
Brian Blum | August 14, 2008 | Marketplaces
EBay is in talks to buy a minority stake in Gmarket Inc., its rival in Korea, which operates an online auction site and shopping mall. In the deal, EBay would buy...
Brian Blum | August 14, 2008 | Marketplaces
Tiffany & Co. has appealed a federal judge’s ruling letting EBay off the hook for knock-off Tiffany and other luxe items sold on the auction site....
Brian Blum | August 11, 2008 | Marketplaces
Planning a Sunday morning brunch surfing Craigslist? Not this weekend. The Internet bulletin board experienced an outage Sunday morning of at least a couple hours...
Brian Blum | August 11, 2008 | Marketplaces
A Harris Interactive survey conducted on behalf of EBay has found that one in 10 U.S. adults (11 percent) is currently selling personal or household items to...
Brian Blum | August 10, 2008 | Marketplaces
Listasaurus.com, the first (and as far as we know only) online classifieds site to pay users for listing their ads has just added video auctions to their list of...
AIM Group | August 04, 2008 | Marketplaces
Taobao.com, China’s big consumer-to-consumer auction site will begin charging fees in October, Jack Ma, CEO of parent Alibaba.com acknowledged. He...
AIM Group | August 04, 2008 | Marketplaces
EBay is launching an International Ad Division which will allow advertisers and ad agencies to make multinational buys and run campaigns in multiple...
buzzwurzer | May 19, 2008 | Marketplaces
Recently, my 13 year old grandson and his friend spent a week over spring break with me in Florida. His two older brothers are varsity athletes and thus kept his...
bruce oren | April 30, 2008 | Marketplaces
Since 1951, The Conference Board, a New York-based research organization, has published its Help-Wanted Index of print recruitment advertising. It’s based on...
bruce oren | April 30, 2008 | Recruitment, Marketplaces
It’s easy to see why, and how far, newspaper stocks are in the tank. And the recent circulation figures don’t make it look like we should expect a...
