Brian Blum | December 08, 2008 | Horizontals
Mobile users can now watch videos from MySpace via a partnership with RipCode. The content will be available at MySpace’s mobile site, m.myspace.com. MySpace... Peter M. Zollman | December 07, 2008 | Horizontals
While mainstream media wrings its collective hands over Wall Street's collapse, retailers and marketers are fixating on reading the entrails of Black Friday and... Linda Karlsson | December 07, 2008 | Horizontals
After the move in Denmark two months ago with the acquisitions of the two classified sites Dba.dk and Bilbasen.dk, EBay is now targeting Norway. The company... Peter M. Zollman | December 07, 2008 | Horizontals
According to the Wall Street Journal, Tribune Co. is preparing for a possible filing for bankruptcy-court protection as soon as this week, according to people... Peter M. Zollman | December 06, 2008 | Horizontals
Zilok is an online rental marketplace that allows individuals or businesses to rent anything or offer anything for rent. Zilok launched in 2007 in the United... joe michaud | December 05, 2008 | Horizontals
Why did Google really pull out of its deal with Yahoo? Because they got a tip that the company had just hours until the Department of Justice was set to file an... Brian Blum | December 05, 2008 | Automotive, Real Estate, Horizontals
Mascus, an online classified portal focused on used heavy machines and trucks, has signed deals to expand its presence in Europe and Africa. In South Africa,... Brian Blum | December 05, 2008 | Horizontals
The Kindle may be the king of the eBook hill, but Sony’s not doing so bad. The Wall Street Journal notes that Sony has sold 300,000 of its Reader device and... Brian Blum | December 05, 2008 | Horizontals
Online review site Angie’s List’s pocketbook just keeps on growing. Last month, we reported that the company had raised $18 million. Now comes another... Brian Blum | December 04, 2008 | Real Estate, Horizontals
The South African free classified Web Site MyToko.co.za has expanded beyond its main Web site to create five new pages for the five big cities in South Africa:... bruce oren | December 03, 2008 | Horizontals
If you’ve been hanging on to a few shares of Trader Classified Media NV,... joe michaud | December 03, 2008 | Horizontals
It’s all still rumors but Silicon Alley Insider shares with readers what it’s hearing about a possible successor to Jerry Yang as CEO of Yahoo. The... bruce oren | December 02, 2008 | Horizontals
We used to talk about “Craig and Meg” --- Newmark, founder of Craigslist, and Whitman, former CEO of EBay --- as major players in the classified... Brian Blum | December 02, 2008 | Horizontals
Is Carl Icahn looking to shake up Yahoo’s board? The billionaire investor bought 6.8 million shares for an average of $9.92 each in three batches last week.... Brian Blum | December 02, 2008 | Horizontals
J.P. Morgan analyst Imran Kahn has been busy lately. On Sunday, we reported that he cut the Wall Street firm’s outlook for online ad spending. Now he’s... Brian Blum | December 01, 2008 | Horizontals
A Yelp-like local reviews site clone called Qype has been growing aggressively in Europe and has designs on other continents including South America. Will the U.S.... AIM Group | November 28, 2008 | Horizontals
The German publishing house Axel Springer Verlag bought a 10 percent share in Dogan Yayin Holding, the largest Turkish media group in a deal worth €47 million... Peter M. Zollman | November 26, 2008 | Automotive, Real Estate, Recruitment, Horizontals
Newspaper advertising revenues totaled $8.9 billion in the third quarter of 2008, down 18.1 percent from the same quarter last year, according to figures released... joe michaud | November 25, 2008 | Horizontals
TechCrunch is reporting that Facebook is searching for a partner to take over its classified listings application. Apparently Facebook distributed a... AIM Group | November 25, 2008 | Automotive, Horizontals
Portuguese classified-ad print publisher Ocasião -- part of Controlinveste S.A. -- intends to launch three vertical-search sites by the end of the year, focused... Brian Blum | November 25, 2008 | Recruitment, Horizontals
Three online classified advertising sites made it into ComScore Media Metrix’s Top 50 U.S. Web properties. The report for October 2008 put Craigslist at No.... AIM Group | November 25, 2008 | Horizontals
The German subsidiary of EBay announced in Berlin today that Frerk-Malte Feller, currently head of the auctions division, will take over as CEO of EBay in Germany... Linda Karlsson | November 24, 2008 | Automotive, Horizontals
U.K. Internet users are increasingly looking for second hand goods online, according to a new study by Hitwise. In the 12 months to October U.K. Internet searches... AIM Group | November 24, 2008 | Horizontals
Stefan Gross-Selbeck, CEO of EBay in Germany for the past four years, will take over from Lars Hinrichs, the founder and current CEO of business network Xing, on... Brian Blum | November 21, 2008 | Horizontals
We have more details about Anuntis Segundamano transformation into an online pure-play online company by closing down the traditional Spanish classified ads paper... Brian Blum | November 21, 2008 | Horizontals
Canada’s Yellow Pages Group (YPG) has entered into a multi-year agreement with Virtual Paper Inc. to become a reseller of My Virtual Paper to thousands of... Brian Blum | November 21, 2008 | Horizontals
We asked Peter Lundquist, Gannett’s Vice President Product Development & Deployment, about the MomsLikeMe rollout, and how the strategy fits into... Brian Blum | November 21, 2008 | Horizontals
By Linda Karlsson We spoke Peter Scheffer, CEO at Sweden’s second-largest parent-community site Alltforforaldrar.se(everything for parents) about parents and... Brian Blum | November 21, 2008 | Horizontals
It calls itself “classifieds for moms.” HandMeDowns.com, only a few weeks old, is a classifieds aggregator where parents can buy, sell and give away... Brian Blum | November 21, 2008 | Horizontals
By Linda Karlsson According to the study Digital Mums Report from the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA) in 2007 62 percent of all European women...