Steve Shipside | July 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
In a move attributed to “economic conditions,” the Daily Mail General Trust (DMGT) has removed a level of management and folded its digital consumer group,...
Steve Shipside | July 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
SFR Régie the advertising arm of French quad-player media company SFR has added SFR Marketplace to its to its portfolio. SFR Marketplace offers advertising across...
Steve Shipside | July 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
More than 937,400 properties were listed on Globrix during May leading the company to declare that “we can now say we offer almost every house for sale or...
Steve Shipside | July 23, 2010 | Marketplaces
Inspired by Fiverr in the U.S. (“The place for people to share things they’re willing to do for $5”) Paboum launches in France with the all the...
Sharon Hill | July 23, 2010 | Marketplaces
AoL has just launched its Advertising Politics product for candidate campaigns. “The virtual campaign trail starts here,” reads the online slogan....
Sharon Hill | July 23, 2010 | Real Estate
The recent announcement of real estate listing site Zillow’s collaboration with Yahoo Real Estate may well be good news for the hundreds of members of the...
Sharon Hill | July 23, 2010 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
We attended a “best practices” AdOwl Webinar presented by TownNews.com, in which newspaper executives talked about their success with the self-service...
Sharon Hill | July 23, 2010 | Automotive
Classified vertical software provider Adicio Inc. just revamped its Adicio Motors automotive platform with some impressive comparison and e-commerce features which...
Sharon Hill | July 23, 2010 | Real Estate
Active Rain, a foremost online network for real estate agents and brokers offers an Active Rain University, with training in blogging, SEO, networking, accounting...
AIM Group | July 23, 2010 | Recruitment
The battle over “dot-jobs” continues. More than 300 people have filed comments about the proposed expansion of the top-level domain to include location- and...
AIM Group | July 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
The cliffhanger concerning whether Google Inc. would get the license for its operations on the mainland of China renewed has apparently been resolved, enabling the...
Steve Shipside | July 23, 2010 | Real Estate
WILFI.co.uk (from ‘What I’m Looking For Is’) is the latest addition to the ranks of FSBOs in the UK and one with a difference. Instead of buyers...
Steve Shipside | July 23, 2010 | Real Estate
Figures from ComScore for the week ending July 7 show Rightmove.co.uk edging into the top 10 U.K. websites of all types. Although its page-view percentage of...
Mark Whittaker | July 22, 2010 | Marketplaces
Gannett-owned rich-media advertising company PointRoll and interactive-marketing company Oddcast have teamed to introduce augmented-reality marketing to online...
Sharon Hill | July 22, 2010 | Real Estate
The Wall Street Journal has just reported a grim outlook on the U.S. housing market, with a census bureau-reported June decline of .7 percent in housing starts....
Sharon Hill | July 22, 2010 | Marketplaces
While expressing dissatisfaction with EBay’s U.S. revenue during the Q210 earnings call., EBay Inc. president and CEO John Donahoe said that the company is...
Sharon Hill | July 22, 2010 | Automotive
AutoTraderClassics.com is offering a “Cars & Vegas” sweepstakes primarily via Facebook, with a grand prize of an all-expenses paid trip for two to...
AIM Group | July 22, 2010 | Real Estate, Recruitment
Sanjeev Bikhchandani, CEO and founder of Noida-Uttar Pradesh-based Info Edge (India) Ltd, says the future of job portals in India is bright because the hiring...
Linda Karlsson | July 21, 2010 | Uncategorized
Axel Springer AG is about to hit the results of the record year 2008. Based on preliminary figures, the company generated an EBITDA of €261.2 million in the first...
Sharon Hill | July 21, 2010 | Real Estate
Re/Max of New England just relaunched its blog, with some features that could work well for a media group that wanted to offer something different to its...
Sharon Hill | July 21, 2010 | Automotive, Marketplaces
Yahoo’s core mission is to drive engagement via four key elements: video, social, mobile and local. That was part of the message delivered by CEO Carol Bartz...
Sharon Hill | July 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
While Facebook and Twitter can be used to engage with your existing readers, advertisers, customers, media, and other stakeholders, neither are good resources for...
Gérard Esteve | July 20, 2010 | Uncategorized
Johnston Press plc, one of the U.K.’s leading regional media groups announced on July 20 the appointment of Kjell Aamot as non-executive director of the...
Sharon Hill | July 20, 2010 | Real Estate
In our first report of the Vast-powered USAA real estate listing platform we conjectured that next up for USAA and its homeowner military-affiliated members might...
Sharon Hill | July 20, 2010 | Automotive
With the help of Second Street Media’s MyCapture for photo and Kaango for classified platform, Hearst’s San Antonio (TX) Express-News has an excellent...
Sharon Hill | July 19, 2010 | Automotive
AVV.com just relaunched, offering new and improved lead generation for auto dealers. An offshoot of Dominion Enterprises’ Dominion Dealer Solutions, AVV...
Sharon Hill | July 19, 2010 | Real Estate
A reprint of the announcement from the Inman News site: SAN FRANCISCO — Two mobile apps and two individual innovators were among the winners of the 2010...
Cristina Costa | July 19, 2010 | Real Estate
The recently published 30th edition of the German online survey “W3B” from Fittkau & Maaß Consulting shows that two-thirds of all Germans who look for property...
Steve Shipside | July 19, 2010 | Automotive
Autoscout24 and ParuVendu.fr have both announced new mobile applications. “AutoScout to go” was launched as an iPhone app back in May 2009 since when...
Cristina Costa | July 19, 2010 | Uncategorized
Portuguese media company Media Capital Multimedia, a subsidiary of Spanish Prisa (Classifieds channel Iol.pt) has lost its managing director Inês Valadas to...
