Carsales.com buys online auction site OZtion
Australia's second largest online auction site, OZtion, has been sold for the second time in just over two years, with online classifieds giant Carsales.com acquiring the business for $1.1 million.
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Amazon and eBay the most visited shopping websites
Sunday, August 1, 2010
Online auction and retail site eBay is the most visited shopping website in the United Kingdom, Australia and Singapore while Amazon takes the top spot in the US and comes a close second in Singapore and the UK.
Even Antarctica Has a Job Board
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Looking for a job as a chef in the Antarctic? Try looking here. Or if you’re a recruiter looking for an experienced vuvuzela sales person, then this South African job site is one place to start. Talk about global recruiting. In the last couple days, both Indeed and SiumplyHired have announced country-specific (or, in the case of Antarctica, continent-specific) job search sites.
China’s Ganji.com Gains USD20 Million Investment
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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Chinese lifestyle information and classifieds listings website Ganji.com has announced that it has gained joint investments of USD20 million from Nokia Growth Partners and BlueRun Ventures.
Dubai’s Dubizzle eyes major Mideast growth
Thursday, June 3, 2010
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The Dubai-based start-up, which attracts around 2.5 million visitors and 34 million page views a month, is in the final stages of building an Arabic-language site to pave the way for its regional expansion.
65.8 % of internet users to use social media by 2014
Sunday, May 30, 2010
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With more than 400 million Facebook users worldwide, the site has quickly become one of the most popular marketing tools among businesses. Social media marketing campaigns may become even more popular during the next four years - a new study conducted by eMarketer indicates that 65.8 percent of American internet users will be using social media sites.
PennySaverUSA.com Win First Annual 2010
Friday, May 28, 2010
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PennySaverUSA.com and its PowerSites(R) product recently won the First Annual 2010 "Show Me the Money" Innovation Award from the International Classified Media Association (ICMA), the leading global community for the classified media industry which counts members from 29 countries.
RVTraderOnline.com is Now RVTrader.com
Thursday, May 27, 2010
RV Trader, a division of Dominion Enterprises, has announced that its online publication, RVTraderOnline.com, is now RVTrader.com. RV Trader has been the industry’s leader in recreational vehicle classifieds for over two decades. In 1998 RV Trader began its online publication, RVTraderOnline.com.
eBay and Gmarket Founder Plan Asia Expansion Through Joint Venture
Friday, May 7, 2010
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SAN JOSE, Calif. & SEOUL, South Korea - eBay Inc. and Young Bae Ku, the founder of Gmarket, Korea's leading e-commerce company acquired by eBay in 2009, today announced a joint venture agreement to expand Gmarket's existing online marketplaces in Japan and Singapore. The agreement will strengthen eBay's presence in Japan and Singapore -- where the e-commerce markets are expected to grow by 30% and 13% respectively between 2009 and 2012--and provide a foundation for longer term expansion of Gmarket into other Asian markets.
58.com Second-Round Funding Reaches USD 15 Mln
Monday, April 12, 2010
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Chinese online classifieds site 58.com announced today that its second-round funding, mainly from Doll Capital Management (DCM) and SAIF Partners, totaled USD 15 mln. CEO Yao Jinbo did not reveal the company’s new equity structure following the investment, but said that 58.com has retained control over the company, and that the funds raised will be mainly used towards expansion in second- and third-tier cities nationwide.
Ad revenue heads for $2b mark
Friday, February 19, 2010
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ADVERTISERS spent $1.87 billion last year vaunting their products and services online, a rise of 9.4 per cent on the previous year, according to figures from PricewaterhouseCoopers, confirming the medium is on track to break the $2 billion mark this financial year. Earlier forecasts had predicted that ads on banners, around videos and in search engines would be a $2 billion medium by the end of last year, so cementing its position as Australia's biggest medium after newspapers and television.
Sulekha Asks Users To Pay a Tip; IPO May Not Happen
Saturday, May 9, 2009
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Sulekha.com started as a community website and is now being projected as a classifieds site. Speaking to MediaNama, Sulekha’s President and CEO Satya Prabhakar spoke about the companys identity, direction and business performance.
EBay to Close Burnaby Facility; About 700 Jobs Lost
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
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E-commerce giant eBay is closing its Metro Vancouver customer-service office and cutting about 700 jobs as it consolidates customer-service operations in Salt Lake City, Utah, the company announced late Tuesday.
Ebay Comes to Vietnam
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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The first cross border electronic commercial portal in Southeast Asia and only the third in Asia went into operation at ebay.chodientu.vn.
Lessons from developing economies
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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It has always been obvious that developed economies don't own the monopoly on innovation. But don't those living in the West usually get the spoils?
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