Gaadi.com Inks Partnership With MIH Group

by | posted: February 21, 2011
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...
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Midday Snatch Up SnatchKing – Will It Help Them Grow?

by | posted: July 29, 2010
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...
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Ibibo Launches Cityads – Classifieds Route To Monetization For SNS?

by | posted: December 1, 2009
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...
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Interview With Pankaj Agarwal CEO Of Clickindia.com – Insights On Online Classifieds Industry

by | posted: August 14, 2009
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)...
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Quikr To Unleash Marketing Blitzkrieg – To Also Launch Paid Options

by | posted: August 6, 2009
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...
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Censorship Comes To Online Classifieds

by | posted: May 14, 2009
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...
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Sulekha Falls Prey To Declining Ad Revenues – To Make Classified Paid

by | posted: February 23, 2009
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)...
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Kijiji.com Renamed/Rebranded As Quikr.com – To Launch Soon..

by | posted: July 1, 2008
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...
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Vivek Pahwa (Of Desimartini Fame) Launches Gaadi.com – A Car Research Portal

by | posted: May 14, 2008
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...
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Web 1.0 Bets Big On Offline

by | posted: March 17, 2008
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...
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Clickindia.com launches Mobile 2 Internet Classified Ad Service!

by | posted: January 9, 2008
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,...
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MetroMela – Local Information & Reviews on Shopping, Health & Family!

by | posted: November 25, 2007
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...
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Classifieds portal Click.in Goes Regional!

by | posted: October 25, 2007
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...
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Saturday Startups – Part 1 – Ninemotion.com, Erail.in and HelloIntern.com!

by | posted: October 20, 2007
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...
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Indian E-Commerce Trade To Cross Rs. 9000 Crores By End Of Mar’08

by | posted: October 9, 2007
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,...
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Newly Launched Websites

by | posted: September 26, 2007
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...
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