Jim Townsend | September 25, 2012 | Recruitment
Japan-based HR services firm Recruit Co. Ltd is to be the new owner of Indeed.com. One of the largest private companies in Japan, Recruit will retain...
Peter M. Zollman | September 25, 2012 | Uncategorized
Updated Sept. 27 with additional detail With the Craigslist vs. EBay lawsuit languishing in the discovery phase, there’s nothing like another juicy fight to whet...
AIM Group | September 24, 2012 | Marketplaces
As start-up funding goes, it’s not much. But AdFreeq.com, the new classified site that’s designed to help newspapers recover some of their classified advertising,...
Peter M. Zollman | September 24, 2012 | Marketplaces
Updated: 4:15 p.m. EDT September 24 with additional comments Backpage.com is becoming a stand-alone classified advertising business, with its two owners selling...
Sharon Hill | September 24, 2012 | Uncategorized
As mentioned in an earlier post, API aggregator provider 3Taps and social-media-rental-listing client PadMapper have joined the ranks of the many sites litigiously...
AIM Group | September 24, 2012 | Automotive
Survey From AutoTrader.com Shows Major Inconsistency Between Distracted Driving Attitudes And Behaviors Even though a significant number of people admit to driving...
Jim Townsend | September 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
Classified ad posting site with a bit of a TWIST… The online classified ad market can get pretty tricky and has been dominated by one player for many...
Jim Townsend | September 21, 2012 | Recruitment
While we’ve already mentioned the new Adicio general classifieds platform, here comes the official announcement. The long-time classified platform provider...
Peter M. Zollman | September 21, 2012 | Marketplaces
Whatever you think of Craigslist, there’s no doubt it provides terrific searches (time-wise) and handles a ton, or three, of data very well. Fast, cheap and...
Cristina Costa | September 21, 2012 | Marketplaces
The South Africa-based multinational media company Naspers has bought quietly a stake of one of the most promising online classifieds companies in Portugal, Fixe...
AIM Group | September 21, 2012 | Recruitment
We’ve reported a couple of times now (here and here) on the troubles at Jobfox, the recruitment website founded by CareerBuilder founder Rob McGovern after his...
Jim Townsend | September 21, 2012 | Recruitment
In “Should Recruiters Pin their Hopes on Pinterest?” Recruiter.com points out several notable facts about the photo-focused social site. Hiring...
Brian Blum | September 21, 2012 | Real Estate
Toronto real estate classified site TheRedPin wants to be the Redfin of Canada. The similarly named site, which was nominated as a finalist in Inman’s 2012...
Jim Townsend | September 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
After a years-long struggle to create a legitimate MLS-only Top Level Domain, a team-up with the Canadian Real Estate Association for an ICANN application, and...
Jim Townsend | September 20, 2012 | Automotive
A previously-projected 12-percent increase in U.S. new car sales for 2012 over 2011 seems highly doable, based on vehicle sales into late September. J.D.Power and...
Sharon Hill | September 20, 2012 | Marketplaces
DoubleTake Deals is owned by Gannett Company. We just noticed that this Daily Deals site has a simple but helpful tracking tool for its merchants. The following...
AIM Group | September 20, 2012 | Marketplaces
Want to make friends in Canada? Support something — anything — hockey-related. Like this: “Kijiji is pleased to partner with the Quebec Major Junior...
Jim Townsend | September 20, 2012 | Real Estate
The IPO of real estate and rental listing site Trulia went live today. After previously announcing that its price range for shares would be $14 to $16 at IPO...
Steve Shipside | September 20, 2012 | Uncategorized
In addition to its newspapers (notably the Daily Mail) and property portals (Zoopla group) DMGT also has an exhibitions division which it boosted in 2006 with the...
Steve Shipside | September 20, 2012 | Automotive
John King, CEO of Trader Media Group (owner of U.K.’s Auto Trader) has resigned in what seems to be a surprise move with no explanation offered by the...
Christo Volschenk | September 20, 2012 | Marketplaces
The appointment of American-born Stan Sugerman (44) to the newly-created position of head of the digital division of magazine publisher Gruner+Jahr, a subsidiary...
AIM Group | September 20, 2012 | Marketplaces
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. — Estimated online prostitution-advertising revenue on five U.S. websites declined 2.8 percent to $2.95 million in August compared...
Christo Volschenk | September 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
Earlier this week Bill Ford, head of U.S. venture capital firm General Atlantic (GA), said in Munich the aim was to list the joint venture Axel Springer Digital...
Jim Townsend | September 19, 2012 | Real Estate
The first television commercial for real estate giant Zillow is an emotional look at house hunting. Called “Find Your Way Home,” it will air this fall...
Jim Townsend | September 19, 2012 | Uncategorized
CoreLogic® Launches MyRental.com To Help Independent Landlords Lower Tenant Risk -Online access to applicant background data, predictive scores- SANTA ANA,...
Jim Townsend | September 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
While Facebook isn’t giving away a ton of information about this, TechCrunch just posted some details of Facebook’s new mobile ad network. Its...
Christo Volschenk | September 18, 2012 | Uncategorized
If this is true, it’ll show yet again how inefficient the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) and London Stock Exchange (LSE) are at protecting the interests...
AIM Group | September 14, 2012 | Real Estate
Real estate and rental listing and service site Zillow has just charged its rival Trulia with patent infringement. The battle is scheduled to be waged in U.S....
AIM Group | September 14, 2012 | Marketplaces
For a long time, CareerCast was the name brand and only product of the California-based company that provided some of the best back-end classified tools for...
Christo Volschenk | September 14, 2012 | Marketplaces
After switching horses in mid-race in Kenya and Nigeria in July (general classifieds portal Dealfish was discarded for OLX), Naspers now announced it was saddling...
