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 11, 2008 | Uncategorized
Synchronica’s Mobile Gateway has won the 2008 Reader Trust Award for Best in Mobile Solution from Network Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications... 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 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Twitter is the new Facebook, or maybe the successor to e-mail itself , say many of its die hard adherents. That may help explain why AOL last week acquired tiny... 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... Brian Blum | August 10, 2008 | Real Estate
Move, Inc. has reported a net loss for the second quarter of 2008 compared to profit last quarter. Total revenue for the second quarter declined to $61.4 million... Brian Blum | August 10, 2008 | Recruitment
Online recruitment site, Jobfox has a new product: Jobfox Intros, which gives job candidates a “personal introduction” to employers. The service is... Brian Blum | August 10, 2008 | Recruitment
Recruitment and communications specialist TMP Worldwide has announced a partnership with mobile marketing vendor Velti designed to integrate the mobile channel... Brian Blum | August 10, 2008 | Recruitment
UK classified advertising site fish4jobs is planning a complete site redesign and relaunch for September 29, according to recruitment information Web site Ri5. The... Brian Blum | August 10, 2008 | Uncategorized
Impact Engine has announced a new self-service offering for advertisers – The Impact Engine Marketplace. There will also be a private label advertiser... Ross Hoddinott | August 04, 2008 | Real Estate
Simon Baker, CEO of Australian headquartered REA Group has left the company, effective immediately. REA Group operates RealEstate.com.au in Australia, nine other... Brian Blum | August 04, 2008 | Real Estate
PropertyPreviews.com, a just-launched free video creation and distribution service for real estate professionals, is integrating with Eye-Fi, Inc., makers of a... 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... 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 03, 2008 | Recruitment
Monster Worldwide presented lots of good news to those who tuned in to its 2008 Q2 earnings call late last week: a bigger-than-expected increase in per-share... AIM Group | August 01, 2008 | Automotive
By Katja Riefler The European automotive market is suffering: in the first half of 2008 only 8.3 million new cars were sold – 2 percent less than in 2007. Sales in... AIM Group | August 01, 2008 | Uncategorized
More from Brad Inman’s session with Craigslist founder Craig Newmark at Real Estate Connect in San Francisco: • “I’m... AIM Group | August 01, 2008 | Recruitment
By Dan Lindley A beefed-up virtual job fair launched last week by ChicagoJobs.com and Shaker Recruitment Advertising & Communications got... AIM Group | August 01, 2008 | Recruitment
By Dan Lindley A bold initiative launched by the Chicago Tribune early this year, which radically pared and redesigned its print recruitment... Brian Blum | August 01, 2008 | Automotive
by Brian Blum Franchised American automotive dealers spent more than $7.86 billion on advertising in 2007 according to the latest report from the National... Brian Blum | August 01, 2008 | Automotive
Craigslist has been eating the lunches of sites offering private auto sales. This past June, Cars.com pulled up a chair at its own lunch counter. Its new... Brian Blum | August 01, 2008 | Uncategorized
A new self-service video-ad creation tool caught our eye this month when the company behind it announced a hefty $10.7 million investment. In stealth mode for the... AIM Group | August 01, 2008 | Automotive
By Joe Michaud It’s a tough time to be in the auto business. Seismic changes are shaking this category: .. This content is available free to Classified... Brian Blum | August 01, 2008 | Uncategorized
Torstar Corp. has written down its investment in LiveDeal by $2.4 million “to fair market value”. The publisher of The Toronto Star and Metroland... bruce oren | August 01, 2008 | Uncategorized
Here’s a test about the newspaper industry and its economic health, developed by media economist Robert G. Picard and published online by Editor... AIM Group | July 31, 2008 | Automotive
By Katja Riefler There are several versions of the stories about David successfully challenging Goliath. Kai Nikolaizig, CEO of the German newspaper classified... AIM Group | July 31, 2008 | Real Estate
By Shannon Kinney SAN FRANCISCO – Always an active and vibrant... Ross Hoddinott | July 31, 2008 | Automotive
By Ross Hoddinott The Chinese economy may be heading for a slowdown, but Credit Suisse says the outlook for online advertising in China is still healthy –... Ross Hoddinott | July 31, 2008 | Automotive
By Ross Hoddinott New-car sales in Australia passed the 1 million mark for the first time in 2007. The early months of 2008 showed continuing growth but,... Brian Blum | July 31, 2008 | Uncategorized
Traffic up at U.S. papers’ sites Not all the news is bad at American newspapers. U.S. newspapers’ Web sites attracted nearly 66.4... 
