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Broadcaster Achieves Early Success With Classified Marketplace

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

Press Release
CityXpress Corp., a leading developer of revenue-generating products and programs for newspapers and broadcast media, today announced the growing success of its first online classified marketplace for a television customer.
In addition, the company announced that it has launched two new classified marketplaces for television customers, and will launch a third later this spring.
WRAL-TV, […]

ISO Best-Selling Model for Web Classifieds

Friday, April 21st, 2006

Full Story
Craigslist, the Web bulletin board where millions of people buy and sell stuff, is facing a fresh burst of competition for classified ad listings.
Not only have Microsoft and Google launched intriguing trial marketplaces where people can sell anything for free, swarms of start-ups are plunging into Web classifieds. They take varied approaches to drumming […]

Talking Classified car ads speak for themselves

Thursday, April 13th, 2006

UKCarAds.co.uk Has today launched its much hyped talking car ads which are set to take the internet by storm.
They say a picture paints a thousand words but what if the pictures could also speak?
That was the idea behind UKCarAds Talking Ads ™.
When you place an private advert on ukcarads to sell your car […]

Google adds apartment, house listings to online maps

Thursday, April 6th, 2006

Google Inc., the most-used Internet search engine, is displaying apartment rentals and homes for sale on its online maps, a move that sparks heightened rivalry with classified ads Web site Craigslist and newspapers.
Users searching for “apartment rental’’ or “homes for sale’’ on Google are asked to plug in their location. Listings are then displayed with […]

Free classifieds puzzle publishers

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

The issue of free classifieds won’t go away any time soon.
It’s a tremendous challenge for publishers, because they’re used to getting paid for the ads they run.
But Google, Microsoft and many other companies – including Craigslist, the site that’s not really a business – don’t plan to get paid for the classified ads they carry. […]