The proposed terms of the Google antitrust settlement in Europe have started to come to light, first through a report in the Financial Times, and this weekend, in articles from the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. As anticipated, the primary “remedy” Google is offering involves labeling its own results to distinguish them from third-party publishers. more…
International
Gartner reports that five years from now, the organization marketing officer will have a bigger piece of the IT budget than the CIO. This particular officer will market the organization’s brand portfolio and services strongly on an online portal.
Peter Ndiang’ui, OLX Country Manager, is one of them, he has steered his organization towards using the digital market arena to tremendously drive and manage the business growth. more…
Remember Oodle? The long-time classified ads site was acquired by TV shopping channel QVC last month. Oodle had a nascent international operation which probably didn’t make sense in the new entity. As a result, bits of it are being hived off, and today we learn that Adzuna, which calls itself a ‘next-generation’ classifieds search engine, has acquired more…
German news publisher Axel Springer says its acquisition foray in to web classified ad services is helping to make up for its declining print market.
On Tuesday, the group said its Axel Springer Digital Classifieds group is buying 80 percent of Belgian property listings more…
StaceyPageOnline.com is breaking all kinds of records, so now is the time for our 52,000 unique viewers to take advantage of our highly affordable and highly visible classified ads.
Our Classifieds section has been up and running since July and we promise you will not find a more affordable news more…
A Parisian newstand. French online classified advertisements exceeded ads in print publications for the first in 2011, the Xerfi-Percepta market research firm said on Tuesday, but warned of a slowdown of spectacular growth. French online classified advertisements exceeded ads in print publications for the first in 2011, the Xerfi-Percepta market research firm said more…
According to a growing list of religious groups, feminists, celebrities and policy makers, adult classifieds website Backpage.com is profiting from one of the ugliest crimes on the planet: sex trafficking.
Backpage’s critics say they are facilitating sex slavery and should shut the site down. New York Times writer Nick Kristof pressured Goldman Sachs to unload its shares in Village Voice Media overnight (and at a $30 million loss) in March. more…
A new online classifieds site, EZPZ.co.za, is integrated with Facebook and Twitter to allow users to easily trade through their extended online social networks. Launched by Kagiso Digital, it gives its users potential reach into the millions of South Africans who use social networking platforms. more…
