Classifieds News

SAO PAULO, BRAZIL–(Marketwire – February 4, 2010) – OLX, already present online in 90 countries, has announced the opening of a new office in Brazil.

OLX.com.br has grown by 450% in the last two years and already counts 14 million visits per month in Brazil, with more than 1 million published items. The online classifieds company expects continued strong growth, aiming for 20 millions visits per month in 2010. (more…)

TwitJobSearch, a Twitter-based job search engine, has teamed up with TweetDeck to offer a desktop client dubbed JobDeck, as reported by Clickz earlier this morning. The application indexes tweets related to recruitment from across the Twittersphere, in real-time, based on TwitJobSearch’s algorithm. (more…)

New York, NY, January 20, 2010 — Locanto announced the expansion of their local classifieds sites to ten new countries: Jamaica, Malaysia, and the United Arab Emirates are now available in English, and in Latin America, the Locanto classified sites (http://www.locanto.com/) are accessible in the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, El Salvador, and Panama. With this expansion, Locanto is meeting the high demand for online classifieds sites in more locations as expressed by users. (more…)

With unemployment at 10 percent nationwide, getting a new job is difficult. It often comes down to who you know. That’s where social networking sites like Twitter come in.

Charles Martin says it takes him only eight seconds to apply for a job after learning about it on TweetMyJobs.com, one of his favorite job search engines, including Gettele Communications Jobs, Its My Job, and Tech Jobs. (more…)

Oodle said it would soon enable users to connect their accounts to eBay, LinkedIn, Trulia and Zillow as part of its new, “more social,” user interface. Oodle aggregates classifieds listings from around the web and also powers classifieds for over 200 leading brands including Cox Interactive, Media General, the Washington Post, Walmart, AOL and Lycos. (more…)

Just call it “the bailout effect.” Likely fueled by huge increases in government spending, Washington, D.C. may the best city in America for job seekers, according to a new ranking by the job search engine JuJu.com. (more…)