Brian Blum | December 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
Analysts from eMarketer weigh in on how the next year in online marketing, e-commerce, social networking and more will unfold. Here’s a quick overview.Online...
Brian Blum | December 16, 2008 | Real Estate
With homebuyers becoming increasingly skittish, ZipRealty has introduced a new feature to help draw more users to its site. Visitors can now estimate what any home...
bruce oren | December 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
Will the fundamental, structural changes announced today at Detroit Media Partnership lead to the death of the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press? Or are they...
admin3 | December 16, 2008 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Marketplaces
Recently I've reviewed a number of small newspapers' websites and strategies, particularly around classifieds. As you might expect, there are a few common threads....
Brian Blum | December 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
Sun Media, publisher of daily and community newspapers across Canada, has announced it's laying off 600 staff, or about 10 percent of its workforce. The mostly...
bruce oren | December 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
We’ve lost one of our great sales execs at the AIM Group / Classified Intelligence, and I hope you know someone who’d be a good fit. Here’s the...
bruce oren | December 16, 2008 | Uncategorized
George Irish, one of the principal architects of the Newspaper Consortium --- and one of the first senior newspaper execs to truly "get it" when it came to the...
Linda Karlsson | December 15, 2008 | Real Estate
Metropix, a 3D floor planning service, has been acquired by one of Daily Mail & General Trust’s B2B divisions, Landmark Information. Metropix...
bruce oren | December 15, 2008 | Marketplaces
The price of The Washington Post's Monday through Saturday editions at retail outlets and vending machines has increased from 50 cents to 75 cents. Sunday prices...
Brian Blum | December 15, 2008 | Real Estate
Nearly 11.7 million American households now owe more on their mortgage than their homes are worth, real estate Web site Zillow.com reported today. U.S. homes are...
Brian Blum | December 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
Facebook is opening a new sales office in Paris with Damien Vincent joining as employee number one. Vincent was previously head of sales at MySpace France. Blake...
Brian Blum | December 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
The move to online continues. Over the weekend, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal both reported that The Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News are...
Brian Blum | December 15, 2008 | Real Estate
Here’s the latest round up of the top real estate Web sites, according to Hitwise, for November. And guess who came out on top. OK, we don’t really...
Brian Blum | December 15, 2008 | Real Estate
European property portal Properazzi has changed its name to...wait for it…Enormo. No, we don’t know why either.Well, maybe whoever was in charge of...
Brian Blum | December 15, 2008 | Real Estate
Online real estate broker Redfin has switched from Microsoft Virtual Earth to Google Maps. The company’s blog says that “We decided to do this now...
Brian Blum | December 15, 2008 | Real Estate
Conrad M. Hall, president and CEO of Dominion Enterprises, is stepping down as of January 2009. His successor has not been announced yet.Hall said given the...
joe michaud | December 15, 2008 | Uncategorized
Do you spend too much time on social networking sites? Feel like you’re wasting a good part of your day updating your status? An irreverent and hilarious new...
Peter M. Zollman | December 14, 2008 | Uncategorized
Estonia's parliament has approved a law making it the first country to allow voting by mobile phone, according to AP. Estonians were allowed to to cast Internet...
joe michaud | December 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
By Joe Michaud Russia’s booming oil economy and an awakening Internet population in Central and Eastern Europe are fueling a wave of interest and...
Brian Blum | December 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
Poland’s rapid growth in Internet usage over the past few years illustrates how unpredictable factors can drive consumer behavior.Because of relaxed...
Brian Blum | December 12, 2008 | Recruitment
Like online executives worldwide, those in the CEE region are paying careful attention to sales approaches and structures, but with an eye to the uniqueness of...
Brian Blum | December 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
Sahin Tulga took over in August as CEO at Trader Media East’s new headquarters in Istanbul after 17 years as managing director of Hewlett-Packard Turkey.He...
Brian Blum | December 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
By Katja Riefler "Web 3.0", "the semantic Web“ – we all have been told a thousand times how this will lead to a whole new Internet, more relevant...
Brian Blum | December 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
by Peter Zollman No matter your medium, 2008 has been a tough year for publishers. Print, online, broadcast – it doesn’t matter. For...
Brian Blum | December 12, 2008 | Recruitment
By Alessandra Ritondo If competition is directly proportional to creativity, a market player can hope to reach the top of the ranking much faster and more easily....
Brian Blum | December 12, 2008 | Real Estate
By Katja Riefler BUDAPEST, Hungary – Under the motto “Cashing in on digital success” about 220 newspaper professionals from all over the world gathered in Budapest...
Brian Blum | December 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
By Peter M. Zollman SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Mobile, video, geo-location services and local OOH – “out-of-home” – media. Hot topics, all, at the BIA Kelsey Group...
Brian Blum | December 12, 2008 | Recruitment
By Amy RabinovitzFrom 2001 to 2006, the number of Las Vegas police officers was in a downward spiral -- from 2.5 officers per thousand residents to 1.7 per...
Brian Blum | December 12, 2008 | Uncategorized
By Don Gasper Despite gloom and doom elsewhere, China’s major online advertising companies seem to be in good health and confident about future business. So...
Brian Blum | December 12, 2008 | Real Estate
For the last year, The New York Times has been following three small businesses to report on their challenges, especially in today’s tough economy. One of...
