Brian Blum | August 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
Bakeca.it, one of Italy’s major generalist ad sites, continues to grow along the peninsula. Services to new cities have been added —...
Brian Blum | August 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
French Le Figaro Group has increased its stake in the market-leading Adenclassifieds. Earlier this month, it aquired the 5.78...
Brian Blum | August 14, 2008 | Marketplaces
Tiffany & Co. has appealed a federal judge’s ruling letting EBay off the hook for knock-off Tiffany and other luxe items sold on the auction site....
Brian Blum | August 14, 2008 | Real Estate
By Talal Abu Issa Dubai-based Simsari.com is launching a “consumer-to-business” service that will allow individual property owners to...
Brian Blum | August 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
By Linda Karlsson Less than a year after its May 2006 launch, classifieds aggregator Rubrikk.no surpassed well-established Tinde.no to take the No. 3 position in...
Brian Blum | August 14, 2008 | Marketplaces
EBay is in talks to buy a minority stake in Gmarket Inc., its rival in Korea, which operates an online auction site and shopping mall. In the deal, EBay would buy...
Brian Blum | August 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
TechCrunch is reporting some stats on social networking maven Facebook’s exponential growth. Facebook is the largest social network in the world —with...
AIM Group | August 14, 2008 | Recruitment
Holidays, the Sichuan earthquake, the Olympics, aggressive competition, along with a general economic downturn were all, apparently to blame for the disappointing...
Brian Blum | August 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
The Sun-Times News Group has expanded its relationship with Classifieds Plus to handle most of its inbound classified advertising sales.A pilot program with...
Brian Blum | August 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
Freedom Interactive CEO Michael Mathieu is leaving to be CEO of YuMe Networks. YuMe is trying to position itself as the “DoubleClick of Video.” The...
Brian Blum | August 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
Classified Concepts has revamped its pricing structure and mapping products to better support smaller circulation daily newspapers. Previously, Classified Concepts...
Brian Blum | August 12, 2008 | Recruitment
A new recruitment Web site has gone live. The minimalist RecruitingCareer.com lists corporate staffing jobs, agency staffing jobs, sales staffing jobs and staffing...
Brian Blum | August 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
Google has launched a new mobile search tool optimized for the Beijing Summer Olympic games that sends sport results, country medal count, and event schedules to...
Brian Blum | August 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
Javna, an Arab company in the field of mobile software solutions and wireless applications has launched MobiAd, a mobile ad application that allows users to earn...
Brian Blum | August 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
Australia’s Sensis has launched a new feature to its popular Whereis Mobile product. Whereis Send to Mobile lets you send the details of a supplier you find...
Brian Blum | August 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
Sick of ads on Yahoo? Now you can opt-out. The move is in response to a Congressional inquiry about customization sent to 33 companies from the House Energy and...
Brian Blum | August 11, 2008 | Marketplaces
A Harris Interactive survey conducted on behalf of EBay has found that one in 10 U.S. adults (11 percent) is currently selling personal or household items to...
Brian Blum | August 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
Synchronica’s Mobile Gateway has won the 2008 Reader Trust Award for Best in Mobile Solution from Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications...
Brian Blum | August 11, 2008 | Marketplaces
Planning a Sunday morning brunch surfing Craigslist? Not this weekend. The Internet bulletin board experienced an outage Sunday morning of at least a couple hours...
Brian Blum | August 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Twitter is the new Facebook, or maybe the successor to e-mail itself , say many of its die hard adherents. That may help explain why AOL last week acquired tiny...
Brian Blum | August 10, 2008 | Marketplaces
Listasaurus.com, the first (and as far as we know only) online classifieds site to pay users for listing their ads has just added video auctions to their list of...
Brian Blum | August 10, 2008 | Real Estate
Move, Inc. has reported a net loss for the second quarter of 2008 compared to profit last quarter. Total revenue for the second quarter declined to $61.4 million...
Brian Blum | August 10, 2008 | Recruitment
Online recruitment site, Jobfox has a new product: Jobfox Intros, which gives job candidates a “personal introduction” to employers. The service is...
Brian Blum | August 10, 2008 | Recruitment
Recruitment and communications specialist TMP Worldwide has announced a partnership with mobile marketing vendor Velti designed to integrate the mobile channel...
Brian Blum | August 10, 2008 | Recruitment
UK classified advertising site fish4jobs is planning a complete site redesign and relaunch for September 29, according to recruitment information Web site Ri5. The...
Brian Blum | August 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Impact Engine has announced a new self-service offering for advertisers – The Impact Engine Marketplace. There will also be a private label advertiser...
Ross Hoddinott | August 04, 2008 | Real Estate
Simon Baker, CEO of Australian headquartered REA Group has left the company, effective immediately. REA Group operates RealEstate.com.au in Australia, nine other...
Brian Blum | August 04, 2008 | Real Estate
PropertyPreviews.com, a just-launched free video creation and distribution service for real estate professionals, is integrating with Eye-Fi, Inc., makers of a...
AIM Group | August 04, 2008 | Marketplaces
Taobao.com, China’s big consumer-to-consumer auction site will begin charging fees in October, Jack Ma, CEO of parent Alibaba.com acknowledged. He...
AIM Group | August 04, 2008 | Marketplaces
EBay is launching an International Ad Division which will allow advertisers and ad agencies to make multinational buys and run campaigns in multiple...
