CHICAGO – Liquidus, a pioneer of video-based classified advertising, today announced the official launch of new products based on its revolutionary video-based classified advertising technology platform for VOD. The company has been flying under the radar since 2005, when it began working with Comcast Spotlight to help forge this advertising niche in the video-on-demand (VOD) side of the business.
Now Liquidus is in the process of providing Interactive TV advertising services to multiple cable companies and is extending its video production platform to serve other media as well. Its online video …

Polish publisher Agora has agreed to buy Internet portal Trader.com for $54.4 million from Turkish media company Hurriyet, the company said in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.
Trader.com runs classified ads websites as well as property and auto advertising magazines, Agora said.

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Norway’s biggest media group, Schibsted ASA SBST.OL, said on Friday it had acquired all shares in Belgian online classified site Kapaza.be for 20.25 million euros ($31.34 million).
“The move strengthens Schibsted Classified Media’s (SCM) position as one of the leading European players in the market for online classifieds,” the group said in a statement.
Schibsted has gathered the group’s classified ads websites outside of Norway, with the exception of some small operations, under one management in the subsidiary Schibsted Classified Media.

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BizzFlip, Inc. recently announced the soft launch of their greenest addition to a growing brand of specialized, community-driven classifieds. EcoFlip.org provides a craigslist-like platform allowing users to create free ads for the buying and recycling of green products, fuel efficient vehicles and eco-supportive services to name a few. It even features an EcoPersonals section for local tree huggers to network and socialize as well as discussion forums supporting green living.
“There’s no better time and place to take part in the shift towards a cleaner, greener economy” mentions Forrest Kolb, …

New York, NY – Asia’s List, a marketplace operator, recently launched a classified ads website called Asia’s List.
Executive Michael Dimino of Asia’s List said that they would make Asia’s List a vehicle to link Chinese closer, and they hope Asia’s List will be the favorite online community of young people, no matter they are looking for jobs, apartment partners, coaches, or traveling partners.
Asia’s List would launch its website in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Chengdu, Wuhan, Jinan, and Zhengzhou first, with Chinese interfaces. Besides, Asia’s List would also start …

The web community Sulekha has quickly grown to become India’s largest user-generated content site with 6 million users, a number set to double this year. Social networking features and classified ads take up equally big parts of the site.
The site targets Indians worldwide. India holds 60 percent of the users. Another 30 percent live in North America, which is gathering pace in many cities (more on that later). Almost every person online in India is fluent in English, so Sulekha knew from the start that competition from other social networks …