Online classifieds portal Quikr appears to be have grown since it was rebranded. The site owned & operated by Quikr Mauritius Holding Pvt. Ltd currently claims to have upwards of 24 Million unique subscribers, out of which 6 Million are mobile-only users. Quikr propagates its image as a free classifieds web-portal. But then, how does it earn? Quikr works on three independent levels reveals Pranay...

Gaadi.com, today announced a partnership with MIH Group. MIH Group is a subsidiary of Naspers, and its operations are concentrated on internet platforms, paid television and related technologies. The groups main operations are located in emerging markets like South Africa, China, Latin America, Russia, parts of Europe and India. It is also the promoter of iBibo. Gaadi.com on the other hand is owned...

In another tie-up in the media space, Midday have acquired the “Indian craigslist” in SnatchKing.com. The details of the acquisition have not been disclosed as of now. SnatchKing is supposedly one of the leading classifieds in India with everything from cars and bikes to books and apartments finding sellers and buyers on the website. How will this acquisition help either side? For SnatchKing...

Ibibo is known to launch multiple initiatives within its social networking platform to continue engagement of users.  Earlier this year they had launched a ning like feature. We have covered Ibibo’s talent contest initiatives and also its attempt at an ad network before. Now it seems ibibo has launched (not sure how recent but found no info or coverage on this feature) another initiative and...

We caught up with Pankaj Agarwal CEO of Clickindia.com, one of the leading horizontal classifieds websites of India. This is one rare story how a website can grow without any funding or a big budget. Q) Can you brief us about the traction on your website and how you achieved that? Clickindia was started in April 2007 with a team of 5 people. We have, since beginning, focused on maximizing returns...

Quikr, the Indian classified portal seems to be on a rollout after acquiring its recent series B funding of $4 million. The company just recently appointed Mr. Pranay Chulet as a CEO. Quikr was formerly known as kijiji.in but was rebranded to reposition its image into the online classified market. Afaqs, citing company officials, reports that the company would soon be launching a marketing blitzkrieg...

Craigslist, a dominant player in online classified segment would soon get rid of its “erotic services” section.This would in turn be replaced by a section called Adult Services with heavy moderation. This means all ads under the section would attract moderation before being published which in turn would lead to higher costs and slow postings. This comes in the wake of serious charges being...

Sulekha a commerce search engine and classified site would soon become paid service, till now they are offering free classified but they shall continue to offer free classifieds as well (Check comments) for c2c segment and charging for only jobs and real estate segments in b2c segment. The move would be fully implemented in 6 months to 1 year and may evoke repulsive action by the users. They have...

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 the flickr hangover which doesn’t...

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 launched secondshaadi.com.   The car classifieds space has one angel funded player in carwale.com and many...