Brian Blum | January 23, 2009 | Automotive
Cars.com is heading back to the Super Bowl. Its 60-second spot this year, which will air in the second quarter, is called “Lifetime of Confidence.” It...
Brian Blum | January 23, 2009 | Marketplaces
Egoob.com thinks it’s figured out how to be a better Craigslist: Manually review every classified ad that’s posted on the site to make sure it’s...
Brian Blum | January 23, 2009 | Automotive
Cobalt’s Dealix division has re-launched its Usedcars.com site. The site is highlighting its relationship with Kelley Blue Book for dealer price comparisons....
Brian Blum | January 23, 2009 | Recruitment
Sometimes it’s all about spin. T3 Fitness Energy, a personal training org. in Riverside, Calif., has created a series of workplace wellness videos. Nothing...
Brian Blum | January 23, 2009 | Automotive
The Montreal-based Yellow Pages Income Fund, best known for producing phone books, is spending $35-million to buy a 20-per-cent stake in U.S.-based Dealer.com. The...
Brian Blum | January 23, 2009 | Uncategorized
The conventional wisdom is that online is killing print. So why would a new startup want to create a printed newspaper based on entirely on Web content?Ask Joshua...
Brian Blum | January 22, 2009 | Recruitment
A VC-backed recruitment portal targeting IT workers in India is apparently throwing in the towel and looking for a buyer. .. This content is available free to...
Brian Blum | January 22, 2009 | Marketplaces
Analysts were expecting EBay’s earnings to decline in Q4 08 and they weren’t disappointed. Net income for the company came in at $367 million, down 31...
Brian Blum | January 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
White label video hosting service Fliqz has picked up a new round of $5.5 million bringing the total raised for the company to $12.2 million. The new financing was...
Brian Blum | January 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
If there was ever any doubt about the impact of Twitter, take a look at data compiled by Hitwise for the U.K. where traffic to the micro-blogging site has...
admin3 | January 22, 2009 | Recruitment
While America awaits the Super Bowl to see which advertisers are still splashing out the big bucks, Canada’s Workopolis is flooding print, online and radio...
Brian Blum | January 22, 2009 | Real Estate
Move.com has appointed Steven Berkowitz as CEO. He succeeds Mike Long, who is retiring from both the company and the board after seven years at the helm....
buzzwurzer | January 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
Ed. note: With too many U.S. newspapers either on the auction block or the chopping block, blogger emeritus Buzz Wurzer has come up with a prescriptive plan for...
AIM Group | January 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
Editor & Publisher hosted its first virtual conference on Thursday. If you attended, you got to sit in the audience and listen to live speakers, visit the...
Brian Blum | January 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
Twitter may be terrific but Yammer has an actual business model (we wrote about it here). However, up until this week, the fledgling startup – which creates...
Brian Blum | January 21, 2009 | Automotive
Cars.com and Carfax have renewed their partnership to give Cars.com shoppers access to Carfax Vehicle History Reports. The companies first linked up in 2005. The...
Brian Blum | January 21, 2009 | Real Estate
Foreclosure bad news continues to mean good news for real estate Web sites that specialize in unloading unwanted property. 2008 was a record setter for online home...
Brian Blum | January 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
Duncan Dunlop has joined the board of directors of European mobile classifieds vendor Mobiya. Dunlop currently oversees the U.K. operations of Oodle which has...
Brian Blum | January 21, 2009 | Uncategorized
While Friendster’s supremacy in the U.S. social media space has fizzled, the Mountain View, Calif.-based company has quietly become the top social network in...
bruce oren | January 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
A new Advertising Age survey shows that magazines are struggling to draw revenue online, as print revenue dives. A publisher-by-publisher summary is here. Here are...
Brian Blum | January 20, 2009 | Recruitment
The U .K.’s Trinity Mirror has re-launched its network of local job sites using a new platform developed by classifieds vendor Madgex.The new platform...
Brian Blum | January 20, 2009 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment
Classified advertising across newspapers in Australia’s Fairfax Media chain fell in December as much as 62 percent from the year before, according to a...
Brian Blum | January 20, 2009 | Recruitment
The Telegraph Media Group is restructuring its recruitment team. Anne-Marie Worden has joined the Group from Haymarket as head of recruitment. Alex Nickolay-Kell...
AIM Group | January 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
Google is killing the print-ad initiative it started with U.S. newspapers in 2006. The money’s just not there, the company said in a blog post. “In the...
Brian Blum | January 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
SearchBoth.com reminds me of the old TV series “Battle of the Network Stars.” The new site is a sort of a “battle of the search engine...
AIM Group | January 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Chicago Tribune launched a tabloid street-sales version of itself this week — its inaugural edition a free keeper: A picture of Illinois’ first-son...
Brian Blum | January 20, 2009 | Uncategorized
Now that the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the U.S. has taken its place in history, the question is: Did you get your special edition...
AIM Group | January 19, 2009 | Automotive
The UK/Dutch media and information group Reed Elsevier has shelved plans to sell its subsidiary Reed Business Information (RBI), publisher of, among others, the...
AIM Group | January 19, 2009 | Recruitment
Online recruitment activity dropped like a stone in a number of EU countries in the 12 months from December 2007 to December 2008. Had recruitment activity not...
Brian Blum | January 19, 2009 | Uncategorized
The conventional wisdom has been that print newspaper revenue is in the pits but online’s OK. Maybe not. A new report from EMarketer analyst Carol Krol says...
