bruce oren | October 17, 2008 | Horizontals
An interesting twist today in the “Craigslist murder” – the sad case of... Brian Blum | October 15, 2008 | Horizontals, Financials / Deals
EBay today reported financial results for its third quarter ending last month. Revenue was up $228 million from the same period last year to $2.12 billion.... Linda Karlsson | October 13, 2008 | Automotive, Horizontals
Scandinavia is considered by many players to be one of the European key online advertising markets. This was also the reason when EBay decided to make a big... Linda Karlsson | October 13, 2008 | Horizontals
Pat Kolek, COO of EBay Classifieds, says the company plans still more acquisitions in the classified advertising field. .. This content is available free to... AIM Group | October 09, 2008 | Horizontals
By Jim Townsend With reporting from Katja Riefler and Christoffel Volschenk EBay announced this week it would lay off about 1,000 full-time employees in its global... joe michaud | October 09, 2008 | Horizontals
By Joe Michaud The 2008 Olympics brought China's online media into the spotlight, and generated millions of dollars in online ad revenue. But hidden under all that... AIM Group | October 08, 2008 | Horizontals
<!–[if !mso]> <! st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } –> EBay has stripped its German subsidiary of its functions marketing and auction platform... AIM Group | October 07, 2008 | Horizontals, Financials / Deals
MIH Europe, a subsidiary of South African media group Naspers, bought the Hungarian online auction site Vatera.hu for $9 million, the Hungarian financial... admin3 | October 06, 2008 | Automotive, Horizontals
EBay has made posting a vehicle free in EBay Motors. Private sellers will pay nothing to post, and $120 if their vehicle sells. Sellers can post up to... Katja Riefler | October 06, 2008 | Horizontals
Turbulent times at EBay -- the company held a predawn conference call today to say it was laying off 10 percent of its global workforce, or about 1,000 permanent... Katja Riefler | October 06, 2008 | Horizontals
EBay just announcedthat it has acquired Den Bla Avis and BilBasen -- providers of leading online classifieds sites in Denmark -- for a purchase price of... Linda Karlsson | October 04, 2008 | Horizontals
A new player has entered the Swedish classified-search market. Annonskartan ("classifieds map") was launched Oct. 2 by contractor Ted Valentin. Annonskartan.se... AIM Group | October 02, 2008 | Horizontals
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark says he believes that advertisers will use print increasingly less. "Print is going to become a luxury medium, but it will happen... AIM Group | September 25, 2008 | Horizontals
By Michael van Wijngaarden Dutch online marketplace Speurders.nlhas been overhauled. To compete more effectively against EBay-owned Marktplaats.nl, the Telegraaf... joe michaud | September 23, 2008 | Automotive, Real Estate, Horizontals
EBay’s at it again. Only a few months after the company got slammed in Australia and was forced to back down over a plan to force all its sellers and buyers... bruce oren | September 22, 2008 | Horizontals
For a while, even before she worked on the Romney campaign for U.S. president, people have been... bruce oren | September 16, 2008 | Horizontals
We’ve written about it before in CIR; now The Wall Street Journal is reporting it too.... joe michaud | September 12, 2008 | Horizontals
By Joe Michaud The battle of free vs. paid ads is over, the battle of print vs. online ads is over, and now the winners and survivors are figuring out what to do... bruce oren | September 01, 2008 | Horizontals
Here at Classified Intelligence, we have an acronym we use about once a week: “YACLW.” It stands for “yet another Craigslist wannabe.”... Brian Blum | August 14, 2008 | Horizontals
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 | Horizontals
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 11, 2008 | Horizontals
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 11, 2008 | Horizontals
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 10, 2008 | Horizontals
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... AIM Group | August 04, 2008 | Horizontals
EBay is launching an International Ad Division which will allow advertisers and ad agencies to make multinational buys and run campaigns in multiple... AIM Group | August 04, 2008 | Horizontals
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... buzzwurzer | May 19, 2008 | Horizontals
Recently, my 13 year old grandson and his friend spent a week over spring break with me in Florida. His two older brothers are varsity athletes and thus kept his... bruce oren | April 30, 2008 | Horizontals
Since 1951, The Conference Board, a New York-based research organization, has published its Help-Wanted Index of print recruitment advertising. It’s based on... bruce oren | April 30, 2008 | Recruitment, Horizontals
It’s easy to see why, and how far, newspaper stocks are in the tank. And the recent circulation figures don’t make it look like we should expect a... 
