bruce oren | November 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
SANTA CLARA, Calif. --- At the BIA Kelsey Group “Interactive Local Media” conference, Kelsey’s Matt Booth said “Uncertainty is the fertile...
bruce oren | November 19, 2008 | Uncategorized
SANTA CLARA, Calif. --- Talk about a “wow.” Attendance at the BIA Kelsey Group “Interactive Local Media” conference in the heart of Silicon...
joe michaud | November 20, 2008 | Uncategorized
Facebook has quietly launched a new feature that has the potential to significantly increase the page rank data that Google uses to track Web sites, potentially...
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...
joe michaud | November 24, 2008 | Uncategorized
Quiet talks between two of the leading social networking systems that would have had Facebook buy Twitter for $500 million have apparently broken down. Kara...
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...
bruce oren | November 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
SANTA CLARA, Calif. – To listen to Mike Silver and Lem Lloyd, you’d think the deal between Yahoo and the Newspaper Consortium is terrific. But to Russ Fradin,...
joe michaud | November 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here’s a tip: Don’t spam Facebook users. Facebook has just won an $873 million judgment - the largest ever to be delivered under federal anti-spam laws...
bruce oren | November 26, 2008 | Recruitment
Looking for more proof about the challenges faced by traditional recruitment advertising media (i.e., newspapers / trade pubs) and the (now traditional)...
Brian Blum | November 26, 2008 | Uncategorized
David Asper, EVP of Canwest Global Communications Corp. (and one of the late founder Izzy's three children), has demonstrated a million dollars' worth of...
bruce oren | November 26, 2008 | Recruitment
Monster Worldwide, parent company of Monster.com and all of its iterations and corporate cousins (Tickle.com, Military.com, Fastweb.com et al), is just about...
Ross Hoddinott | November 26, 2008 | Recruitment
Monster Worldwide will re-enter the Australian market with a purchase of 50 percent of News Digital Media's CareerOne jobs site. Details, at this time, are a...
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...
bruce oren | November 28, 2008 | Recruitment
Andrew J. McKelvey, who bought The Monster Board and Online Career Center Web sites and turned...
joe michaud | December 01, 2008 | Uncategorized
Facebook got slammed for last year when the company launched its “Beacon” advertising program which failed to properly warn users that their activity...
admin3 | December 01, 2008 | Uncategorized
Quick followiup on the recent CIR centerpiece on "mom" sites launched by media companies:Kaboose.com has just relaunched ParentZone.com as a series of...
Brian Blum | December 02, 2008 | Uncategorized
The Canadian media landscape is changing dramatically, at one of the most dramatic moments in the country's political history. Ted Rogers, founder and CEO of...
joe michaud | December 02, 2008 | Uncategorized
The U.K.’s Times Online is reporting that Microsoft’s interest in Yahoo is back on the table, but this time only for Yahoo’s search business.The...
Peter M. Zollman | December 02, 2008 | Uncategorized
All 10 of Canwest’s major city daily newspapers simultaneously launched redesigned Web sites Monday. Canwest touts these improvements: new design and...
AIM Group | December 02, 2008 | Recruitment
Recruitment blogger Joel Cheesman writes on Cheezhead that there are rumors circulating that Yahoo is interested in buying Monster -- or maybe even vice-versa. It...
AIM Group | December 02, 2008 | Recruitment
You got to hand it to these guys. Craigslist earned almost $4.5 million in recruitment advertising from Oct. 25 to Nov. 25 -- almost $637,000 of it new revenue,...
bruce oren | December 02, 2008 | Marketplaces
We used to talk about “Craig and Meg” --- Newmark, founder of Craigslist, and Whitman, former CEO of EBay --- as major players in the classified...
joe michaud | December 03, 2008 | Marketplaces
It’s all still rumors but Silicon Alley Insider shares with readers what it’s hearing about a possible successor to Jerry Yang as CEO of Yahoo. The...
joe michaud | December 03, 2008 | Uncategorized
While it’s certainly not as grave as the murder of a Minnesota babysitter who answered an ad on Craigslist, a Colorado man who trashed his ex in...
bruce oren | December 03, 2008 | Marketplaces
If you’ve been hanging on to a few shares of Trader Classified Media NV,...
joe michaud | December 04, 2008 | Uncategorized
The SEOmoz blog has an interesting insight about how businesses are reviewing their Web presence in today’s down market. The conclusions are applicable for...
joe michaud | December 05, 2008 | Marketplaces
Why did Google really pull out of its deal with Yahoo? Because they got a tip that the company had just hours until the Department of Justice was set to file an...
Peter M. Zollman | December 06, 2008 | Marketplaces
Zilok is an online rental marketplace that allows individuals or businesses to rent anything or offer anything for rent. Zilok launched in 2007 in the United...
Peter M. Zollman | December 07, 2008 | Marketplaces
While mainstream media wrings its collective hands over Wall Street's collapse, retailers and marketers are fixating on reading the entrails of Black Friday and...
joe michaud | December 08, 2008 | Uncategorized
In an article published on the Chicago Tribune’s Web site, the newspaper chain announced it was working with bankruptcy advisers at investment bank Lazard...
