Posts Tagged ‘classifieds’
eBay Acquires Leading Classifieds Companies in Denmark
Monday, October 6th, 2008
eBay Inc. has acquired Den Bla Avis and Bilbasen, two leading online classifieds sites in Denmark, for approximately $390 million USD. The acquisition marks eBay’s entry into the Danish e-commerce market, provides an opportunity to create a national classifieds business there, and further strengthens eBay’s world-leading portfolio of online classifieds sites.
Founded as printed classified [...]
UPDATED: eBay Inc Reports Second Quarter 2008 Results
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
eBay reported second quarter 2008 earnings results a few minutes ago. The company posted second quarter revenue of $2.20 billion, up $361 million from the same period last year. Net income on a GAAP basis was $460 million, or $0.35 per diluted share, and non-GAAP net income was $568 million, or $0.43 per diluted share. [...]
Oodles of Opportunities
Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Wal-Mart quietly launched its own Classified Listings service at the end of last month partnering with Oodle to deliver the service. With the recent headline-grabbing news for online classifieds with both eBay’s Kijiji and Craigslist, I was surprised that this only raised a few eyebrows online. Although, it does confirm what we talked about on [...]
Online Classified Information
Friday, May 23rd, 2008
There has been a lot of discussion over the past few weeks about the redacted complaint made public by eBay regarding its lawsuit with Craigslist and, more recently, with Craigslist’s lawsuit with eBay filed last week. I have been approached by a number of Ink readers and employees at eBay asking me why I have [...]
