AIM Group | March 18, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Denver Newspaper Agency hired Alison Kane as SVP of interactive media. Kane will work on building audience and revenue on DNA's Web sites, including...
AIM Group | March 17, 2009 | Recruitment
Something new: TwitterJobSearch.com combines the coolest new Web tech — semantic search — with what all the cool kids are doing these days —...
AIM Group | March 12, 2009 | Marketplaces
EBay's future: fewer auctions, more liquidations, financial analysts were told in a briefing Wednesday. CEO John Donahoe said the company is shifting its focus to...
AIM Group | March 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Something new from Denver-based AdPay: It's added a classifieds search to its marketplace platform, so that a local publisher might "aggregate" other local...
AIM Group | March 12, 2009 | Recruitment
The number of online job advertisements posted on Australian Web sites fell sharply in February, according to the latest Olivier Job Index. The index, which...
AIM Group | March 12, 2009 | Real Estate
Spain-based Idealista and the ST-Sociedad de Tasación, Spain’s first independent real estate evaluator, have introduced a new tool which allows...
AIM Group | March 12, 2009 | Real Estate
As of this month, EBay-owned Marktplaats.nl exclusively allows NVM-estate agents to publish their entire portfolios on the site for free via Funda.nl -- a move...
AIM Group | March 12, 2009 | Automotive
Motorpress’ weekly car magazine Autohoje has launched a new online TV project in Portugal. According to multimedia manager Alexandre Rodrigues, Autohoje TV...
AIM Group | March 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Dutch newspaper publisher PCM Uitgevers (Volkskrant, NRC Handelsblad, Trouw) has been acquired by Belgian media conglomerate de Persgroep. .. This content is...
AIM Group | March 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
GoAdv has confirmed a proposed acquisition of LeGuide.com, French publisher of online shopping guides. If accepted, the acquisition will establish GoAdv as...
AIM Group | March 10, 2009 | Marketplaces
The newest post on Craigslist’s corporate blog says that in the past 12 months, the volume of listings in its Erotic Service categories is down 90-95 percent...
AIM Group | March 09, 2009 | Marketplaces
Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster has publicly responded to a lawsuit that accused Craigslist of supporting prostitution through its Erotic Services sections....
AIM Group | March 09, 2009 | Uncategorized
Mark A. Whittaker, an award-winning interactive-media executive who led Web services at the Tribune-Review Publishing Co. in Pittsburgh, has joined the Advanced...
AIM Group | March 06, 2009 | Marketplaces
By Cristina Costa Auction-marketplace giant EBay has made a strategic shift in Spain with the start of EBay Anuncios, a new free-classified site linked to its main...
AIM Group | March 05, 2009 | Marketplaces
Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart sued Craigslist in a Chicago federal court, calling the site “the single largest source of prostitution in the nation.”...
AIM Group | March 03, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Ralph Grayden Fairfax Media Ltd shares were suspended from trading late last week while the company raised A$500m ($320 million U.S.) from institutional...
AIM Group | February 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
Yahoo has launched three new targeted-search products, including the ability to target display ads based on user search. It calls that particular feature "Search...
AIM Group | February 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
Tired of Craigslist's iconic but clunky, Web 1.0 interface? Somebody at Motion Technologies was and built a free, downloadable reader that looks like a Microsoft...
AIM Group | February 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
Neeraj Khemlani is leaving his post as GM and executive editor of Yahoo News to become a VP of media at New York-based Hearst Corp. His title includes Special...
AIM Group | February 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
AOL announced the relaunch of a new private-party classifieds section, using Oodle's classified aggregation service. Interestingly, the site says “featuring...
AIM Group | February 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
By Cristina Costa Portugal Telecom S.A. and five of the leading media groups have started a new online advertising network for contextual advertising to compete...
AIM Group | February 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
InterActiveCorp is selling Match.com's European operations to Meetic for €5 million (about $6.3 million U.S.) and a 27-percent stake in the France-based...
AIM Group | February 12, 2009 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
In recent months and in a down economy, Carlsbad, Calif.-based Adicio has launched more than 40 new sites on its careers, automotive and real estate platforms. The...
AIM Group | February 06, 2009 | Uncategorized
With a sophisticated new ad-serving system, Ebay-owned Marktplaats is looking to commit top-line brands and retailers. Google Adwords has been thrown out and the...
AIM Group | February 05, 2009 | Uncategorized
Five-year-old French professional network Viadeo has moved into India with the acquisition of Apna-Circle.com. Launched by Sabeer Bhatia et Yogesh Bansa,...
AIM Group | February 05, 2009 | Uncategorized
Catalan publishing company Grupo Godó has started a new joint venture with the online classified ads company Yaencontré-Jahetrobat, owner of the real...
AIM Group | February 03, 2009 | Uncategorized
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AIM Group | February 02, 2009 | Real Estate
Apartments.com has acquired Austin, Texas-based Apartment Home Living, a social-media site that matches apartments with dwellers’ lifestyles. The acquisition...
AIM Group | January 30, 2009 | Uncategorized
Gannett Co. said today it would take a non-cash charge of about $5.2 billion against financial results of the fourth quarter of 2008 and the declining value of...
AIM Group | January 26, 2009 | Recruitment
U.K.-based recruitment-platform provider Madgex is citing slower growth for 2009-2010 and a scaling back of new site launches in its foreseeable future. After four...
