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 05, 2009 | Uncategorized
It should come as no huge surprise that the economic downturn has led to a surge in activity on jobs sites. According to comScore, uniques on job sites grew 51...
AIM Group | February 05, 2009 | Uncategorized
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — Insourcing and outsourcing — hot topics in the newspaper industry. Newspaper companies talk about saving millions of dollars...
AIM Group | February 05, 2009 | Uncategorized
As we’ve written about here on AIMGroup.com, Twitter is a great tool for both researching and broadcasting news of all sorts, from the mundane to the highly...
AIM Group | February 05, 2009 | Uncategorized
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — Best quote (so far) from the Suburban Newspapers of America conference this week: “It’s one of those things where 10 years...
Peter M. Zollman | February 04, 2009 | Uncategorized
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — The value of newspaper enterprises has in some cases dropped to...
AIM Group | February 04, 2009 | Uncategorized
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — Attendance is way off at the spring publishers’ conference of...
AIM Group | February 04, 2009 | Recruitment
Despite the financial crisis (or maybe thanks to it?) the German online job platform scene is as busy as ever, with a row of new portals launching just in the last...
AIM Group | February 04, 2009 | Recruitment
The global business network Linkedin.com finally launched its German portal this week and said the next step was to build the German job board and news offering....
AIM Group | February 04, 2009 | Real Estate
You’re selling a home and you entrust your real estate agent to post a listing across the Web. But is the agent really doing his or her job? Check the Real...
AIM Group | February 04, 2009 | Real Estate
We read lots of blogs here at AIMGroup.com. So we can get pretty jaded. If the site doesn’t have news we’re interested in, we’re out of there...
AIM Group | February 04, 2009 | Uncategorized
Erica Thornton is the new CFO and senior vice president for Tribune Interactive.Marc Chase, Tribune Interactive’s president joked that “Not only is...
AIM Group | February 04, 2009 | Uncategorized
Twitter is not just for pithy chats anymore. It’s turning into a marketing tool.Dell is following up its successful Twitter Christmas experiment with a new...
AIM Group | February 04, 2009 | Uncategorized
A British man who murdered his estranged wife last month after she changed her marital status on Facebook to “single” has been given a life sentence...
AIM Group | February 04, 2009 | Uncategorized
Will The New York Times bring back TimesSelect? Editor Bill Keller wouldn’t rule it out. In a Q&A with readers on the newspaper’s Web site that...
AIM Group | February 04, 2009 | Uncategorized
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — The value of newspaper enterprises has in some cases dropped to...
AIM Group | February 03, 2009 | Real Estate
Stuart Wofff, the former CEO of real estate portal Homestore (now Move.com), was supposed to be heading to jail after he was found guilty of an accounting scandal...
AIM Group | February 03, 2009 | Uncategorized
<!–> <! st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } –> There’s a new person at the helm at Google Canada. Google Inc. announced it has hired...
AIM Group | February 03, 2009 | Automotive
The Globe and Mail, Canada’s leading national newspaper, has launched a new used-car online vertical, called AutoHound. It’s powered by Boost Motor...
AIM Group | February 03, 2009 | Uncategorized
A flurry of recent articles have raised the unthinkable newspaper question: What if the New York Times ceased to print and went online only. Michael Hirschorn,...
AIM Group | February 02, 2009 | Recruitment
College students or anyone researching careers can hop over to ThinkTalk, a recruitment-oriented Web site which provides interactive video fodder for...
AIM Group | February 02, 2009 | Recruitment
As if we didn’t know how bad it is out there, the Conference Board has the data. Online advertised vacancies declined 506,000 to 3,355,000 in January,...
AIM Group | February 02, 2009 | Uncategorized
Has your publication considered “live blogging” an event in your local area? A new tool makes it easy. CoverItLive is designed for reporting on...
AIM Group | February 02, 2009 | Uncategorized
Online video advertising is down but certainly not out. In fact, according to projections released for January 2008 by AccuStream IMedia Research, online video ad...
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 | February 02, 2009 | Real Estate
I happen to be the specialist in the real estate industry here at AIMGroup.com, and for the past 10 years I’ve been struck when I attend real wstate industry...
AIM Group | February 02, 2009 | Uncategorized
We are regular readers of the TechCrunch blog. It’s one of our best sources of news for AIMGroup.com. So it was very disturbing to read founder Michael...
AIM Group | February 02, 2009 | Automotive, Recruitment
Was it worth it? Amid the worst recession in recent memory, a trio of classifieds brands – Monster.com, Careerbuilder.com and Cars.com – coughed up a...
AIM Group | February 02, 2009 | Uncategorized
We’re actively looking for a great sales exec at the AIM Group / Classified Intelligence. If you’re interested, let us know. If you know someone who...