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The classifieds space is a crowded one in India with large vertical players like naukri, shaadi and consim info (previously bharatmatrimony) and many general players like indialist, indiaclassifieds, click.in etc There is also ebay invested kijiji which we had covered here before.
 
 
Now Kijiji is making a move to change its name to Quikr.com (This is [...]

Vivek Pahwa known for his less than 10 million sale of Desimartini to HTMedia has come up with another startup this time in the car space with Gaadi.com. This should be the 4th web startup that vivek seems to be involved with given that he has angel funded antya.com a search engine and had also [...]

Traditional Web Companies or for the use of a more cliched term Web 1.0 companies like jobs, matrimony and travel in India have become the big boys of the web in the last three years with many of them raking in funding close to tens of millions and one of them reaching valuation worth billions [...]

Online Classifieds is one crowded segment with specialist players for jobs, matrimony, real estate and cars like naukri, shaadi, bharatmatrimony and carwale and also generic craiglist clones like click.in, kijiji.in, indianclassifieds.com and others. With so much clutter it does become an important move when a player ads convenience related features for users.
 
In an innovative move, [...]

Metromela is a new startup on the block based in Hyderabad which is catering to the local information services space in India. Though there are a bunch of players in this space like local search engines like guruji, justdial, onyomo, burrp and calssified players like sulekha, indialist, click.in and others. Metromela is trying to be different [...]

Bangalore-based Greynium Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd which owns oneindia.in has launched online classified portal click.in in regional languages. Besides English it will now be available in five Indian languages - Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.
Click.in aims has gone regional as its trying to target a larger audience as readers would be able to post [...]

Well its raining startups this saturday so we have clubbed three of them in the part 1 of this saturday. All 3 of them either belong to ecommerce, information or the classifieds space.
Let the startups roll..
Ninemotion - Ninemotion is a service marketplace Very much like rentacoder or elance where small businesses who are looking [...]

As we had mentioned in our previous posts about Fabmall-manorama launching an e-commerce site and the launch of Futurebazaar, Indian e-commerce market is booming right now. Big players like Big Bazaar, Indiaplaza.in, Globus, Reliance, Pantaloons and others have been making plans to capture a slice of the e–commerce market. Some of them have even launched [...]

Goforads.com

Just one of the many existing online classifieds available out there who promises to provide ads for free which anyways all the other ones provide…
So what makes this site different?
Nothing really, goforads.com is much like any other classifieds website.
Other than buy sell ads goforAds.com also provides users to advertise their ad spaces [...]

Well Christmas is round the corner and off late i have been very very bad! Because i haven’t posted much on WATblog since last four days.. The reason for that was that as an entrepreneur i was busy attending the TIE Summit. The TIE Summit was a wonderful experience and i got the opportunity to meet [...]

According to this Press release Monsterindia.com claims thats its traffic has surged by 238% in July-Sept 06 compared to the same period last year. It also states that Monsterindia.com acquired 62% more new resumes than the nearest competitor’s (Thats a hint to Naukri.com if you did not get it!) claimed new resume inflow.They have attributed the high traffic [...]

CIOL: "User-generated content, focus on the social media targeted at specifically Indians and on generating a revenue with local commerce within the community has been the unique value proposition (UVP) for Sulekha.com" according to Sulekha.com co-founder and CEO Satya Prabhakar.
Sulekha.com would now like to migrate and replicate there success in the online space to [...]

Its raining funds!!! Atleast as far as the Internet space in India is concerned. Sulekha.com which is very well known for its online classifieds business and who recently added new features has recieved 10M$ in funding from Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), a leading global technology venture capital firm. According to the release Sulekha.com plans to [...]

Sulekha.com has launched a new and improved version of its classifieds service. This latest version of Classifieds sports additional features such as IP-targeting for better relevance, meta-tags and attribute-driven search.  
Satya Prabhakar, CEO of Sulekha.com, noted, “This is a key step in the evolution of Sulekha.com which remains most popular personalized marketplace for Indians to [...]