Peter M. Zollman | November 26, 2008 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
Newspaper advertising revenues totaled $8.9 billion in the third quarter of 2008, down 18.1 percent from the same quarter last year, according to figures released...
AIM Group | November 25, 2008 | Automotive, Marketplaces
Portuguese classified-ad print publisher Ocasião -- part of Controlinveste S.A. -- intends to launch three vertical-search sites by the end of the year, focused...
AIM Group | November 25, 2008 | Marketplaces
The German subsidiary of EBay announced in Berlin today that Frerk-Malte Feller, currently head of the auctions division, will take over as CEO of EBay in Germany...
joe michaud | November 25, 2008 | Marketplaces
TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook is searching for a partner to take over its classified listings application. Apparently Facebook distributed a...
Brian Blum | November 25, 2008 | Recruitment, Marketplaces
Three online classified advertising sites made it into ComScore Media Metrix’s Top 50 U.S. Web properties. The report for October 2008 put Craigslist at No....
Linda Karlsson | November 24, 2008 | Automotive, Marketplaces
U.K. Internet users are increasingly looking for second hand goods online, according to a new study by Hitwise. In the 12 months to October U.K. Internet searches...
AIM Group | November 24, 2008 | Marketplaces
Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of EBay in Germany for the past four years, will take over from Lars Hinrichs, the founder and current CEO of business network Xing, on...
Brian Blum | November 21, 2008 | Marketplaces
We have more details about Anuntis Segundamano transformation into an online pure-play online company by closing down the traditional Spanish classified ads paper...
Brian Blum | November 21, 2008 | Marketplaces
Canada’s Yellow Pages Group (YPG) has entered into a multi-year agreement with Virtual Paper Inc. to become a reseller of My Virtual Paper to thousands of...
Brian Blum | November 21, 2008 | Marketplaces
We asked Peter Lundquist, Gannett’s Vice President Product Development & Deployment, about the MomsLikeMe rollout, and how the strategy fits into...
Brian Blum | November 21, 2008 | Marketplaces
By Linda Karlsson We spoke Peter Scheffer, CEO at Sweden’s second-largest parent-community site Alltforforaldrar.se(everything for parents) about parents and...
Brian Blum | November 21, 2008 | Marketplaces
It calls itself “classifieds for moms.” HandMeDowns.com, only a few weeks old, is a classifieds aggregator where parents can buy, sell and give away...
Brian Blum | November 21, 2008 | Marketplaces
By Linda Karlsson According to the study Digital Mums Report from the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA) in 2007 62 percent of all European women...
Brian Blum | November 21, 2008 | Marketplaces
By Joe Michaud Whether running their kids to the soccer game, or running for vice president of the United States, moms have been getting a lot of media attention...
bruce oren | November 20, 2008 | Marketplaces
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (at the BIA Kelsey Interactive Local Media conference): Look for expansion into Canada and the U.K. next year by Angie’s List, a...
Brian Blum | November 20, 2008 | Marketplaces
IAC’s local online guide CitySearch has launched its first major redesign in nearly a decade. The move is aimed at competing with more aggressive newcomers...
Brian Blum | November 20, 2008 | Marketplaces
Yelp is often dismissed as a bar and restaurant site for recent college grads in San Francisco. But, according to new stats released by the company, only 45...
Brian Blum | November 19, 2008 | Marketplaces
Who says you can’t raise money these days. Lighthouse Capital Partners has put $18 million into home improvement and contractor online listings and review...
Brian Blum | November 18, 2008 | Marketplaces
Purely by coincidence, Statistics Canada -- the government agency -- reported that Canadians ordered C$12.8 billion worth of goods online in 2007, just a few days...
Brian Blum | November 18, 2008 | Real Estate, Marketplaces
After 30 years in operation, Spanish classifieds newspaper Segundamano is shutting down its print versions to go online-only.Segundamano is owned by Schibsted...
bruce oren | November 16, 2008 | Marketplaces
Like so many other dot-coms, Oodle has cut its staff and is curtailing other expenses as well. Although the venture-backed classified...
Brian Blum | November 14, 2008 | Marketplaces
You found a handyman on Craigslist who sounds great on paper. But how do you know he’s any good? A new startup, Workstir, hopes to take some of the guesswork...
Brian Blum | November 14, 2008 | Marketplaces
MercadoLibre, the largest online commerce platform in Latin America, with divisions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and...
AIM Group | November 12, 2008 | Marketplaces
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang says that while performance-based advertising remains a high-growth area, it's unknown what long-term effects the current economic downturn...
Linda Karlsson | November 12, 2008 | Marketplaces
By Linda Karlsson After three months of operation in the U.K., mobile-classifieds company Mobiya.co.uk has aggregated 10,000 classified ads -- a humble number...
Brian Blum | November 12, 2008 | Marketplaces
Matt Dearborn, writing on Oodle's blog, welcomes two new countries to Oodle's growing family of international sites. Oodle Ireland and Oodle India are now online....
Ross Hoddinott | November 10, 2008 | Marketplaces
Sensis and Google in the same room. Who’d have believed it? It was only three years ago that Sol Trujillo, CEO of the big Australian telco Telstra (Sensis’...
Brian Blum | November 10, 2008 | Marketplaces
Ad aggregator-indexer Oodle will soon be powering all of Canwest’s general classifieds, providing a seamless platform across the media giant’s...
Linda Karlsson | November 09, 2008 | Marketplaces
Swedish radio Ekot reports that there has been a big increase in the online sales of used stuff compared with last year. The classified market leader Blocket.se...
bruce oren | November 07, 2008 | Marketplaces
The decision by Craigslist to charge $5 for ads in its prostitution "erotic services" category and donate all the proceeds to charity got us wondering: What...
