Briefly…The Naspers owned MIH Internet Africa has announced that the local resources at its online classifieds start-up, Kalahari Ads, will be consolidated with international resources available via OLX, another Naspers owned entity operating one of the world’s fastest growing online classified platforms. This move is a bid to grow Naspers’ online classifieds footprint more…
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The helpful classifieds website is providing unlimited ad postings with no account required. Also included are optional videos with ads at no extra cost. more…
Tothego.com is the new search engine for job opportunities, cars and property in the US. Tothego.com provides a single window into the offers available across a multitude of sites, saving time and energy. more…
Looking for the best deal on a product or service? Search no more, GETIT, the leader in local search and free classifieds in India has announced the launch of its new Hotdeals website providing best deals across categories. Users can access Hotdeals through the link http://getithotdeals.in/ and view 1000s of deals in various categories, for respective cities. Users can also access the deals simply by calling CallGETIT 24×7 on 4444-4444 from any city. more…
The Australian online advertising market saw a 20% year-on-year increase in the third quarter to $688 million, as video advertising continues to skyrocket.
Search and directories had the lion’s share of spend with 52.7% and increased 30%. General display advertising accounted for 23.9% of expenditure and grew 8% while classifieds made up 23.4% of spend and increased 15%. more…
Experian Services India Pvt Ltd, a leading market research company, recently surveyed the online behaviour of the Indian population in the online shopping category. The company monitors and provides daily insights on how internet users interact on websites. more…
Netflix again leads the pack as North America’s largest consumer of Internet bandwidth, creating 32 percent of peak downstream traffic, according to the 2011 Sandvine Internet Phenomena Report, which was released today.
The top four largest Internet services in North America more…
Facebook is to build a multi-million ‘mini town’ on the edge of the Arctic circle to house all its computer servers, which would us as much electricity as a town of 50,000 people.
The enormous server farm facility in Luleå, northern Sweden, to be announced officially on Thursday morning, more…
Argentina-based classifieds site OLX was launched in India in 2006 and it was among the earlier breed of Internet businesses. The company is now gearing up for a long-awaited rise in Internet and mobile Internet usage, following the spurt of social networking activity and the increasing interest in online shopping across the country. more…
The Bloomberg U.S. Quick Service Restaurant Index – which includes McDonald’s Corp. and Yum! Brands Inc., owner of Pizza Hut – has risen 6 percent this year, while the Bloomberg Full Service Restaurant Index, made up of restaurants such as Cheesecake Factory Inc., has declined 6 percent. more…
Regional newspaper publisher Newsquest, which owns more than 200 titles in the UK including the South London Guardian series and Brighton Argus, has reported a 7.9 per cent year-on-year fall in advertising revenue for the third quarter, down from worse declines of 10.3 per cent in the second and 12.4 per cent in the first quarters. more…
Search engines are invariably the first port of call, when one logs on to the World Wide Web. They are used for a variety of purposes, one of which is searching for the best deals available.
Web surfers in India search the most for mobile phones. more…
