Brian Blum | November 21, 2008 | Horizontals
By Joe Michaud Whether running their kids to the soccer game, or running for vice president of the United States, moms have been getting a lot of media attention... bruce oren | November 20, 2008 | Horizontals
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... Brian Blum | November 20, 2008 | Horizontals
IAC’s local online guide CitySearch has launched its first major redesign in nearly a decade. The move is aimed at competing with more aggressive newcomers... Brian Blum | November 20, 2008 | Horizontals
Yelp is often dismissed as a bar and restaurant site for recent college grads in San Francisco. But, according to new stats released by the company, only 45... Brian Blum | November 19, 2008 | Horizontals
Who says you can’t raise money these days. Lighthouse Capital Partners has put $18 million into home improvement and contractor online listings and review... Brian Blum | November 18, 2008 | Real Estate, Horizontals
After 30 years in operation, Spanish classifieds newspaper Segundamano is shutting down its print versions to go online-only. Segundamano is owned by Schibsted... Brian Blum | November 18, 2008 | Horizontals
Purely by coincidence, Statistics Canada -- the government agency -- reported that Canadians ordered C$12.8 billion worth of goods online in 2007, just a few days... bruce oren | November 16, 2008 | Horizontals
Like so many other dot-coms, Oodle has cut its staff and is curtailing other expenses as well. Although the venture-backed classified... Brian Blum | November 14, 2008 | Horizontals
You found a handyman on Craigslist who sounds great on paper. But how do you know he’s any good? A new startup, Workstir, hopes to take some of the guesswork... AIM Group | November 12, 2008 | Horizontals
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang says that while performance-based advertising remains a high-growth area, it's unknown what long-term effects the current economic downturn... Brian Blum | November 12, 2008 | Horizontals
Matt Dearborn, writing on Oodle's blog, welcomes two new countries to Oodle's growing family of international sites. Oodle Ireland and Oodle India are now online.... Linda Karlsson | November 12, 2008 | Horizontals
By Linda Karlsson After three months of operation in the U.K., mobile-classifieds company Mobiya.co.uk has aggregated 10,000 classified ads -- a humble number... Ross Hoddinott | November 10, 2008 | Horizontals
Sensis and Google in the same room. Who’d have believed it? It was only three years ago that Sol Trujillo, CEO of the big Australian telco Telstra (Sensis’... Brian Blum | November 10, 2008 | Automotive, Horizontals
EBay Motors’ recent decision to offer free listings to individual sellers might sound like a reaction to the free posts from competitors such as Craigslist, Geebo... Brian Blum | November 10, 2008 | Horizontals
Ad aggregator-indexer Oodle will soon be powering all of Canwest’s general classifieds, providing a seamless platform across the media giant’s... Linda Karlsson | November 09, 2008 | Horizontals
Swedish radio Ekot reports that there has been a big increase in the online sales of used stuff compared with last year. The classified market leader Blocket.se... bruce oren | November 07, 2008 | Horizontals
The decision by Craigslist to charge $5 for ads in its prostitution "erotic services" category and donate all the proceeds to charity got us wondering: What... admin3 | November 07, 2008 | Horizontals
I couldn't help noticing that the Craigslist crackdown on prostitution is limited to Craigslist's category of Erotic Services. You know that category; it's... AIM Group | November 07, 2008 | Horizontals
Baidu, operator of China's biggest Internet search engine, posted a 91 percent increase in third-quarter profit in October after surging Web usage enticed more... AIM Group | November 07, 2008 | Horizontals
Tencent Holdings, operator of QQ, China's biggest instant messaging service, remains optimistic regarding the impact on its business of slowing economic... AIM Group | November 07, 2008 | Recruitment, Horizontals
By Don Gasper Recent reports by some Hong Kong newspaper groups paint a mixed picture of how they are adapting to changing conditions. .. This content is available... AIM Group | October 31, 2008 | Horizontals
By Christo Volschenk EBay has quietly gone live in Germany and the U.S. -- two of its biggest markets -- with a search-marketing service for business clients (shop... Linda Karlsson | October 30, 2008 | Horizontals
Alma Media Group's net sales increased 5 percent compared to the same period last year, but the operating profit fell behind (€12.2 million in 2008, €... AIM Group | October 30, 2008 | Horizontals
Christian Unger (41), CEO of MIH Internet Europe, a subsidiary of media group Naspers, has resigned to take up the position of CEO at Ringier, Switzerland's... AIM Group | October 29, 2008 | Real Estate, Recruitment, Horizontals
By Nirmalya Sen Info Edge (India) Ltd on Oct. 24 announced results for the quarter ended September 30. The company reported net profit after tax of Rs 156.7... AIM Group | October 26, 2008 | Horizontals
Dutch media are reporting that MySpace is closing its Amsterdam office, having failed to gain traction against Hyves.nl, a Dutch social networking site. The... AIM Group | October 26, 2008 | Real Estate, Horizontals
By Isabelle Repiton EBay France this past week launched "EBay Immo," a section dedicated to real estate classifieds, with French homes and apartments to sell or... AIM Group | October 24, 2008 | Horizontals
AdLink Media has signed a deal with EBay's free-ad LoQuo in Spain to manage the network-advertising space on the classified-ads portal. According to LoQuo, the... Brian Blum | October 24, 2008 | Horizontals
Here’s a cool free tool to help EBay buyers. Calgoo, which offers software to synch calendars including Outlook, Google and iCal, has launched BidCal that... Linda Karlsson | October 21, 2008 | Horizontals
The goal to stay the No. 1 auction Web site in Sweden was the reason EBay-owned Tradera.com recently reduced the auction fees. At the same time, the format of the... 
