Archive for the 'Craigslist.org' Category
Can you think of any two bigger phonies in a contest:
in the one corner, eBay; in the other, Craigslist. One was started a brazen capitalist who like to promote socialist tenets in a veiled attempt to take the focus away from their massively profitable business that is applying crazy pressure to their peers, and the […]
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“Put the bong down, the honeymoon is over” is the only message I can walk away from this news that eBay is suing Craig Newmark and Jim “master of my domain” Buckmaster of Craigslist.org (for the record I think Jim was right to ask for the craigslistblog.org domain, but wrong the way he handled it). […]
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Paid Content refers to a NYT article on CBS which calls for the company that Bill Paley built to make digital acquisitions, which begs the question: should they go for a big purchase or make small moves?
Of course, answering that question alone without addressing the backdrop to that question yields an incomplete picture.
CBS has hit […]
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
I think we’re living in the best of times, mind you, especially if you’re fortunate enough to be on this side of the digital divide. Sure, cars don’t fly - yet, but when you hop on a flight, you can make phone calls […]
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I could not help how ironic it is to read the NYT covering eBay’s launch of Kijiji in the US:
“This is going to be our classified ad play in the United States,” said an eBay spokesman, Hani Durzy. “We look at it as competition to Craigslist and other platforms. But we think there is room […]
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I’ve covered the newspaper industry so much in the recent past that you’d almost think I ran a newspaper company. But, I don’t. I work online and count my blessings every day. Yet as online operations fight tooth and nail for every single dollar of revenue, newspaper companies continue to print money.
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?
Of course, as Washington […]
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The prevailing wisdom is that by bringing internationally-focused Kijiji to the US, eBay is taking on Craigslist.
That’s not the case. Craigslist is growing too fast to give a damn, frankly. And, as everyone has mentioned by now, eBay is 25% owner of Craigslist, they also have a board seat. While Craig Newmark might not say […]
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LiveDeal.com raised $4.85M in its second round in October 2005. If everything we read about VCs are true, that’s a low return on their investment.
I don’t know what the valuation was at the time of that second funding, but according to Alarm Clock and reported by Paid Content, today it sold to Yellow Pages (ticker: […]
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Craig Newmark is a fascinating soul. He’s either a real, genuine gentleman or the world’s greatest fraud. Clearly, I’m biased into thinking that he’s in the former - and not latter - camp. Craig Newmark has built Craigslist.org into the most powerful thorn in the newspapers’ industry side, the strongest classifieds business and a profitable […]
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Since 1994, we have seen many companies come out of nowhere, off the radar, only to grow into positions of leadership and dominate their sphere. Some go on and galvanize that leadership positions, others falter and let someone else pass by.The following is HipMojo.com’s list of Internet Company of the Year, based on growth, […]
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