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Backpage.com Responds To Attorneys General Letter On Child Prostitution

Backpage.com has responded to a request from attorneys general in Washington state and across the country. They want the online classifieds site to do more to protect kids who are being forced into prostitution. KUOW’s Sara Lerner reports. more…

Adicio and impreMedia Strike Partnership

adicioAdicio Inc., the leading provider of interactive classified advertising software solutions for media companies, announced a new partnership with impreMedia, the leading Hispanic news and information company. Adicio will provide online classified platforms in both English and Spanish for all of impreMedia’s publications, including La Opinión (which launched in November, 2010) in Los Angeles, El Diario (which launched in December, 2010) in New York, La Raza in Chicago, La Prensa in Orlando, El Mensajero in San Francisco and Rumbo in Houston. more…

Paywall plans: “This is a big risk”

dallasMNIn talking about the Dallas Morning News’ plans to begin charging for digital content next month, Jim Moroney is surprisingly candid about the decision and the economics of the industry. When the publisher of the News told his staff about the decision, he said they must be prepared to be ridiculed and vilified for putting their content behind a paywall.

This is a big risk “” I’m not confident we’re going to succeed,” Moroney told me. “But we’ve got to try something. We’ve got to try different things.” more…

Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices

Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices

The Decline and Fall of E-Mail

mailI have in my computer every e-mail message I have sent or received since 1992. Minus the obvious spam, this database comes to about half a million messages from people as varied (or similar, if you think about it) as Larry Ellison and Larry Flynt. But lately my e-mail seems to be dying. Yours is, too. more…

eBay: E-Commerce To Be $1bn Biz In India By 2013

Image: Vikas Khot, eBay President & CEO John Donahoe

In an interview with CNBC-TV18′s President & Editorial Director of TV18 Business Media, Senthil Chengalvarayan, eBay’s President & CEO John Donahoe spoke about the company’s India plans. Below is a verbatim transcript of the interview. more…

Gumtree hires Beta for TV campaign

Gumtree, the classified website, has appointed Beta to its ad account ahead of a planned TV campaign, which will break in early August.

The account was awarded without a pitch and the incumbent was The Gallery. more…

Digg Losing Popularity

Digg is a popular social news website whose main purpose consists of letting people vote stories up or down, termed as digging and burying, respectively. There are millions of stories submitted daily basis, but among them only the most Dugg stories appear on the front page. more…

Free car ads take on big media sites

The online motoring race has begun after motoring portal caradvice.com.au announced it will offer free ads on its new acquisition, carbuddy.com.au.

Motoring editorial site caradvice.com.au bought carbuddy.com.au earlier this month from Jumbuck Entertainment Ltd and aims to give the big guns in online motoring a run for their money. more…

Five Things Old Media Still Don’t Get About The Web

Earlier this week, the New York Times company forced the iPad Pulse News Reader app to be pulled from the App Store. The reason? It took the Times’ RSS feed and put it inside its own app.

To be clear, the RSS feed in question was a headline, a one-sentence introduction more…

RacingJunk.com Powers Online Classifieds for Ignition Nation

Raceway Media’s RacingJunk.com, the largest online motorsports marketplace, will power the online classifieds for Ignition Nation.com, an online community of “cool car and hot bike” enthusiasts. more…

Searching for husbands, muses, on “Craigslist TV”

The first three videos, all of which were shot in Los Angeles and are under 10 minutes long, debuted on Wednesday on the popular site where users can find a job or an apartment or sell the contents of their garage. more…