People received advertisements in the mail, even mass classified ads.
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Classified ads apps have silently risen to prominence under our noses.
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In contrast, a newspaper can be liable for their classified ads.
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The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday afternoon to hold classified ads site Backpage.
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The Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday afternoon to hold classified ads site Backpage.
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GHENT, Belgium — In February, Milo Rau placed classified ads in a Belgian newspaper.
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Barcelona online classified ads firm Wallapop sold to U.S. based online marketplace Letgo.
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Baston marketed the women as high-end escorts over Instagram and in classified ads.
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Craigslist has about 80 million classified ads each month, according to the company website.
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Axel Springer in 2014 bought Israeli classified ads website Yad2 for 806 million shekels.
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The Justice Department has indicted seven people affiliated with the classified ads website Backpage.
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For these new mobile classified ads apps, taking over the market won't be easy.
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Before classified ads went unisex, women had no established path to high-level jobs.
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He wrote to hundreds of newspaper editors, called critics, and took out classified ads.
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At the time, users could use Facebook's desktop version to create their own classified ads.
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Some of the biggest community marketplace/classified ads startups aren't coming out of Silicon Valley.
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In the rise of web 1.0, the classified ads site dramatically undercut newspapers' classified revenues.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Shares in Norwegian media and classified ads group Schibsted surged on Tuesday (SBSTA.
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But that was not enough to make up for the loss of revenue from classified ads.
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Adevinta has online classified ads businesses in France, Brazil, Spain and the Nordic countries, among others.
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Scout24 fell after Deutsche Telekom sold a 9.3 percent stake in the online classified-ads firm.
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Yadav gathered apartment listings by reaching out to people directly using Twitter and online classified ads.
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Think of classified ads (Craigslist), long-distance calls (Skype), record stores (iTunes), taxis (Uber) and newspapers (Twitter).
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It was the digital reproduction of the printed classified ads that early internet users were used to IRL.
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It has for instance bought Business Insider, an online business news portal, and digital classified ads portal StepStone.
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Backpage.com, the popular classified ads website, went offline Friday after being seized and disabled by the federal government.
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The classified ads unit booked a 16 percent rise in EBITDA during the quarter to 88.2 million euros.
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It's the reason that eBay has a stranglehold over the collectibles market and Craigslist dominates online classified ads.
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Backpage has classified ads for everything from antiques to boats, but it makes its money on escort ads.
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When classified ads — the bread and butter of the newspaper business — migrated online, newspapers big and small suffered.
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The latter is largely a combination of private sellers via classified ads, and traditional offline used car dealerships.
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The bill followed a two-year Senate investigation into online sex trafficking on the classified ads site Backpage.com.
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They could transfer their position to anyone they chose: classified ads in newspapers often offered teaching jobs for sale.
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Classified ads kept print newspapers in business for more than a century — but Craigslist made quick work of them.
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Perhaps the oldest thing on this list to die, classified ads made newspapers profitable for most of a century.
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Instead of re-inventing the wheel, the search engine platform centralizes all the classified ads and local marketplace apps.
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Photo: APThe CEO of Backpage, a classified ads website, pleaded guilty on Thursday to conspiracy, money laundering, and facilitating prostitution.
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Its online classified-ads businesses, under brands such as OLX and letgo, together have 330m monthly users in 40 countries.
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Right now, you still have to go to an antique shop, or maybe look for classified ads on the web.
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Backpage's adult classified ads pages made it a legal target for years, with critics claiming that it facilitated sex trafficking.
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Arguably, nowhere is the fair skin preference as ingrained as in classified ads placed in newspapers seeking a marriage partner.
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In the classified ads of The Irish Echo, he found a room for rent at Madison Avenue and 96th Street.
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The internet's main home for classified ads has held out against making an official app for whatever reason until now.
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Whenever I place classified ads looking for a room to rent, I always get sex-for-rent offers from men.
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He explained that he had started out on a site called Wannonce, a classified ads site with an adult section.
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And the resulting classified ads one sign of the heavy toll the shutdown is taking on those stuck in the middle.
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The city's data scientists have also analysed online classified ads to identify landlords who cram too many tenants into their flats.
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Recently, venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz included classified ads apps on his list of lesser-known startup sectors to pay attention to.
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But it's the Wild West when it comes to private gun sales, often arranged through classified ads on sites like ammoland.
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The Cubist collages of Picasso, Braque and Gris souped up still lifes with stock prices, horse-racing results and classified ads.
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There are over 25.90,000 different classified ads and 45 million ounces of milk flowing through the classified site at any given time.
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Property classified ads company REA Group was up 7% and shares of its rival, Domain Holdings Australia, rose 3% in early trade.
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The classified ads site Craigslist has hired its first federal lobbyists to tackle online sex trafficking bills making their way through Congress.
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The rest of the year Ms. Weary sold classified ads at the local newspaper, The Sentinel, to pay for her ballet classes.
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According to the 9NEWS report, crooks pull the plate numbers from classified ads to create a catalog of car models with matching numbers.
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During the first Cold War, American and British spies would sometimes place coded messages in newspaper classified ads to communicate with each other.
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Government officials touted the indictment and seizure of the popular classified ads website as a major step in the fight against sex trafficking.
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I realized that scouring classified ads lead to great deals and started to refurbish vintage synthesizers to resell and pay for my habit.
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Indicated 1.1 percent higher The publisher reported better-than-expected 2016 core profit, helped by its digital business, especially its online classified ads.
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In April, the fast-growing classified ads company became Norway's most valuable initial public offering in 13 years, priced at about $7 billion.
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Its online classified ads unit has been the main contributor to the transition and is now the company's largest unit in terms of EBITDA.
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The idea of connecting with someone you spotted in real life, but didn't speak to, has been a longtime staple of newspapers' classified ads.
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But recently, investments in a variety of classified ads startups raise the possibility that the giant Goliath may have quite a few viable contenders.
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Starboard has publicly expressed frustration that eBay hasn't moved quickly enough to sell its online-classified-ads business or make changes to its board.
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Indicated 0.1 percent lower German publisher Axel Springer said on Wednesday first-quarter core profit rose 5 percent thanks to its online classified ads business.
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Poll: Fiscal Q3 results due The online classified ads company said its management and supervisory boards supported the planned takeover by Hellman & Friedman and Blackstone.
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FRANKFURT, May 13 (Reuters) - German publisher Axel Springer said on Wednesday first-quarter core profit rose 5 percent thanks to its online classified ads business.
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FRANKFURT, March 9 (Reuters) - German publisher Axel Springer reported better-than-expected 2016 core profit, helped by its digital business, especially its online classified ads.
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The legislation aims to expand requirements for background checks on private sales including those made at gun shows, on the internet or through classified ads.
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The Army Of Ghostwriters Behind King Content When you think about the fastest growing areas for startup investments, you probably don't think about classified ads.
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Coyote Johnson looked through classified ads in the Des Moines Register and Omaha World-Herald to find his collectibles, according to the Des Moines Register.
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For every $100 spent by advertisers online in Australia — excluding classified ads — $47 goes to Google, $24 to Facebook and $29 to other players, it said.
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The listing on Gumtree, a U.K. site for classified ads, refers to the hardware as a "slim line model" and carries a £295 ($385) asking price.
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Most of the bands and other tape traders found you from classified ads in bigger magazines like Metal Forces or other zines and fanzine review sections.
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Many sales are arranged after Facebook users post photographs in closed and secret groups; the posts act roughly like digital classified ads on weapons-specific boards.
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Veteran podcast personality Bronx Johnny has a message for the "fucking prudes" who forced Backpage to remove its adult classified ads section: you've broken my heart.
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Even when classified ads websites have been accused of knowingly allowing and facilitating child sex advertising, the existing legislation has consistently protected them from criminal charges.
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He begged his parents to get him a dog, a mutt he found in the classified ads, who he says became his best and only friend.
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Photo: Danielle BluntPerhaps the biggest loss for the sex worker community online—and the most well-known—was the shutdown of classified ads website Backpage in April.
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The platform, a classified ads portal sort of like a Craigslist for Chile, quickly garnered millions of visits per month and put the team on the map.
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The fast-growing classified ads company was spun off from media firm Schibsted late on Tuesday, selling so-called class B shares at 13 Norwegian crowns each.
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The fast-growing classified ads company was spun off from media firm Schibsted late on Tuesday, selling so-called class B shares at 78 Norwegian crowns each.
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Conventional wisdom is that one site in particular — Craigslist — single-handedly killed newspaper classified ads, since the site was easy to use and most ads were free.
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In theory, it is possible to find fetishists and sell to them using a personal website and social media outreach, or forums and classified ads like Craigslist.
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But a handful of up-and-coming startups seek to dethrone Craigslist and disrupt the classified ads industry — and they've got the money to make it happen.
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The Village Voice was founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer, and for decades it sold a weekly version thick with classified ads.
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The chain put out classified ads in multiple national newspapers advertising job openings for employees who could work on Sunday, when Chick-fil-A is famously closed.
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But paradoxically, the same forces that allowed classified ads and news to be so easily separated also drastically increased the economic rationale for bundling across the board.
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The copywriter for an ad agency decided that he was not going to take the standard approach, digging through classified ads and tagged friends of friends on Facebook.
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Schibsted's financial targets for the new company, announced for the first time on Thursday, were similar to the current revenue growth targets for the online classified ads division.
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Craigslist has long been the reigning king of classified ads and local e-commerce; perhaps because of this, it hasn't seen much need to innovate over the years.
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Craigslist went online in the Bay Area in 20113 and spread across the continent like a weed, choking off local newspapers' most reliable source of revenue: classified ads.
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The language in the bill is an attempt to close a potential loophole on private sales, like those at gun shows, on the internet or through classified ads.
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Purchases of World Cup-related merchandise also picked up after Russia's surprising progress to the last eight of the tournament, according to Russia's leading classified ads platform Avito.
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Earlier on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported eBay is reaching out to potential buyers to sell its classified-ads business, which could be worth roughly $10 billion.
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Earlier on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported eBay is reaching out to potential buyers to sell its classified-ads business, which could be worth roughly $10 billion.
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Earlier on Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported eBay is reaching out to potential buyers to sell its classified-ads business, which could be worth roughly $10 billion.
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Originally a trade paper for gigging musicians, stuffed with players-wanted classified ads, Melody Maker's embrace of rock in the mid-60s inspired staff members to walk out.
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The fight centers on a website for classified ads called Backpage, which investigators — in Congress and elsewhere — long have alleged is a haven for illegal prostitution and underage exploitation.
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Or a tech platform that merely hosts classified ads — as in the case of the charges Kamala Harris brought against Backpage executives when she was attorney general of California.
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When the government seized classified-ads site Backpage, forcing it to shut down in April, it became a lot harder to find and locate potential victims of sex trafficking.
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" Mr. Goldstein said that in the ensuing years he "had not done a good enough job bringing in the amount of classified ads needed to keep the paper running.
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The language in the bill is an attempt to close a potential loophole on private sales such as those at gun shows, on the internet or through classified ads.
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But what's powered the gig revolution is the shift from signs and classified ads to digital platforms and marketplaces that facilitate continued and repeated matching of gig and gig worker.
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At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with their $23-an-hour salary, they weren't just hiring people — they were putting classified ads in the newspapers and no one was answering.
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This led the Spanish company to add classified ads for rentals, before evolving into a transactional model in 2015 — pitting it against other rental marketplaces, including the much younger Spotahome.
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Johnson used to look through classified ads in the Des Moines Register and Omaha World-Herald looking for the cars to build his collection, according to the Des Moines Register.
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The woman, identified only as Jane Doe in court papers filed in Harris County District Court in Houston on Monday, also named as defendants the now-shuttered classified ads website Backpage.
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Cramer backed Elliott's urging that the e-commerce company sell off non-core businesses, such as StubHub and the classified ads, and insisted that CEO Devin Wenig work with the activists.
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Classified ads site Backpage is currently using this shield to protect itself from being sued for third-party content on its site allegedly aiding illegal prostitution and selling children for sex.
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When it announced the druid's recruitment on Tuesday, the town said that it had exhausted all other options, after advertising extensively and fruitlessly for a doctor through classified ads and posters.
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Craigslist and other classified ads services have a longstanding reputation for being prone to scams, and these mobile apps will need to work hard to establish trust among their user bases.
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He will miss arriving on Thursdays, reading the local newspaper classified ads to check the pulse of the town and discovering that the figure atop the state Capitol in Lincoln, Neb.
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"The lack of centralized control on the industry's hugely fragmented seller structure, has prevented any meaningful innovation over the past 20 years, when the typical online classified ads emerged," says Arvanitis.
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Governments everywhere want to increase their power to tax internet commerce out of a fear that some tax revenues will go the way of music CD sales and newspaper classified ads.
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The shifting dynamic is especially hard for old-line newspapers, whose lucrative classified ads were rendered obsolete by the likes of Craigslist, and high-margin print advertising fled to the Web.
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Popeyes has put several classified ads in national newspapers that advertise job openings for employees to work specifically on Sundays, a day that its rival, Chick-fil-A, is famously closed.
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It's an undertaking that has led to the shuttering of classified ads website Backpage and the passage of the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA) and Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA).
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True, the Supreme Court recently refused to revive an unsuccessful lawsuit against Backpage, an American site for classified ads with a popular adult section, which had been accused of facilitating forced prostitution.
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The classified ads website wants to encourage people to sell their Black Friday products that they've never used and to opt for second hand products in an effort to reduce landfill waste.
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The shutdown follows years of mounting political and legal pressure against Backpage, which launched in 2004 and hosts a wide assortment of classified ads having nothing to do with the sex industry.
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It emerged that two activist hedge-funds have built stakes in eBay and are pushing the e-commerce company to spin off StubHub, its website for selling tickets, and its classified-ads division.
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The Chicago Tribune said its print edition was published without paid death notices and classified ads, while other Tribune newspapers had a slimmed down version of the Saturday edition delivered on a Sunday.
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OLX, the biggest classified ads site in India and Brazil, said the combination of Webuycars' can improve the experience of classifieds users across its OLX platforms, without providing further detail of the agreement.
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After acknowledging that she knew how to type, she was asked to type up classified ads — "Dominant iguana seeks submissive zebra" was one — while sitting on the lap of the publisher, Allen Katzman.
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The fast-growing classified ads company, whose brands include France's Leboncoin, Brazil's OLX and Britain's Shpock, was spun off from media firm Schibsted, selling so-called class B shares at 78 Norwegian crowns each.
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However, online classified ads businesses could institute age and identify verification, proactively remove and report flagged sex ads to law enforcement, and adopt a consistent, nationwide child sex trafficking victim identification and reporting mechanism.
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The migration of classified ads online has been a major contributor to the decline of local print newspapers, which depended on paid advertising for jobs, cars and homes before the rise of the Internet.
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On the outmoded front, 5miles essentially updates the concept of classified ads with newer innovations in areas like mobile and social to make the listings easier to engage with and items faster to buy.
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While the provision contributed to the extraordinary growth of former start-ups like Facebook and Google, the freedom from liability has become particularly problematic in the instance of classified-ads style websites like Backpage.com.
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The 93-count indictment was unsealed days after authorities seized the classified ads site and reportedly raided the Arizona home of Michael Lacey, one of Backpage's founders who was named among the seven defendants.
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OSLO, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Media group Schibsted will spin off its international online classified ads operations in an initial public offering, the Norwegian company said on Tuesday, sending its shares surging more than 10 percent.
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Some big-city papers, like the Philadelphia Inquirer or the Baltimore Sun, splurged on foreign bureaus and fluffy suburban sections whether or not readers wanted them; classified ads alone covered these costs many times over.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Facebook's online marketplace has attracted scrutiny from EU antitrust regulators who are seeking details about its role vis-a-vis rivals in online classified ads, a questionnaire seen by Reuters showed.
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Trinity Mirror, which owns the Daily Mirror, on Monday ramped up its cost savings plan after weak print advertising and poor sales of classified ads pushed its half-year adjusted operating profit down 226 percent.
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Craigslist, which Newmark launched in 1995, is among the classified websites that have often been cited as a contributing factor to the decline of print journalism, which traditionally relied on print classified ads for funds.
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It is true that some parts of the on-demand world operate similarly to newspaper classified ads or Angie's List where small businesses advertise to potential consumers, but that represents only part of the story.
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Peer-to-peer ideals powered the original "sharing economy," but the model that won out — pioneered by firms like Uber and Airbnb — is more like turbo-powered classified ads and rentals than coops and shared resources.
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Acquired from auctions, estate sales, and classified ads by owner Larry Fisher, most of the wares (which also includes vintage porn, magazines, and comics) sells for a fixed price, but negotiations aren't out of the question.
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A posting on the Norwegian classified ads website Finn lists a 2018 Tesla Model S sedan that's been converted into an all-electric hearse, complete with an extended rear cabin large enough to fit a casket.
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Indicated 21 percent higher The publisher of Europe's best-selling tabloid Bild, sees full-year earnings at the upper end of its forecast range after a strong first half driven by classified ads and digital subscriptions.
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Craigslist, which he founded in the mid-1990s, put a dent in newspaper classified ads — a trusty generator of revenue in more print-centric times — and is often blamed, in part, for the industry's revenue decline.
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On top of the initial downfalls after free online news and classified ads had lured customers away from paying for local subscriptions, weakened outlets were left vulnerable to sweeping sales and gradual decimation, creating news deserts.
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Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen said it ran classified ads on Sunday in The New York Times, New York Post, Boston Globe and Miami Herald seeking applicants who can work Sundays and who have experience preparing chicken sandwiches.
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OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's Adevinta completed a long-planned initial public offering on Tuesday, valuing the fast-growing online classified ads group at more than 53 billion Norwegian crowns ($6.20 billion) ahead of its market debut on Wednesday.
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This suggests a reason Uber is spending so lavishly to gain market share in cities around the world: The company may believe that network effects will make each city a winner-take-all market like classified ads.
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LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - British newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror ramped up its cost savings plan on Monday after weak print advertising and poor sales of classified ads pushed its half-year adjusted operating profit down by 9.4 percent.
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Its name alluded to the old days of print publishing, when classified ads, especially ads for topless bars, escort services, and other sexually oriented businesses filled the final pages of alt-weeklies and provided much of their revenue.
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She said she agreed to meet him when he offered to console her after a fight with her mother, but instead he beat and raped her, then posted her picture on the now-shuttered classified ads website Backpage.
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The case is not the first brought against Backpage, and the site has been the target of at least three lawsuits from women who say they were the victim of sex traffickers who used Backpage to place classified ads.
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OSLO, April 9 (Reuters) - Norway's Adevinta completed a long-planned initial public offering on Tuesday, valuing the fast-growing online classified ads group at more than 53 billion Norwegian crowns ($6.20 billion) ahead of its market debut on Wednesday.
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Yet romantic comedy quickly follows: Grandma's twentysomething grandson, a factory worker named Jochen (Gottfried John), goes to buy another bottle and meets a young woman named Marion (Hanna Schygulla), who works as a receptionist in a classified-ads office.
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It was revolutionary because it not only solved a need to bring online classified ads from the newspapers, but it also provided a space for local communities to connect, conduct commerce, advertise local events, post job openings and more.
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Craig Newmark, the Craigslist entrepreneur who arguably forced the newspaper industry to change its business model after his website put a dent in the lucrative classified ads business, is giving $21990 million to the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.
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Axel Springer, the publisher of Europe's top-selling Bild newspaper, bought its stake in Bonial in 2011 as part of a shift to more digital media and online classified ads as it seeks to offset a decline in print circulation.
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"I've heard stories about when people looked for jobs in the classified ads and big bold letters read 'help wanted-male' or 'help wanted-female,'" said Bobbi Spees, one of the defendants in the case, in an ACLU press release.
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The company, whose e-commerce holdings cover areas such as food delivery, classified ads and online retail, said core headline earnings per share from continuing operations reached 694 cents in the year through March, compared with 553 cents the year before.
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And let's not forget that Facebook is quietly building up its Marketplace peer-to-peer selling feature in another part of its app to be the ultimate replacement for the classified ads that used to keep local news sites afloat.
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Transferred to silk screens in a complex procedure involving monoprint molds, the antique reports of distant war and of local events, and the commercial and classified ads, now do double duty as text and texture in some of Owens's paintings.
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After a fight with her parents over grades, in a foolish moment she runs away, meets a seedy character at a youth shelter, and within 36 hours is being sold for sex on the internet in the classified ads on Backpage.com.
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Elliott, one of Wall Street's busiest and successful activists, made a new bet on eBay in the fourth quarter and has been pushing for changes at the company, including a sale of its StubHub ticket sales and its classified-ads businesses.
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Alongside MultiChoice and its stake in Tencent, Naspers runs an e-commerce unit, which houses assets such as OLX, the biggest classified ads site in India and Brazil, and mobile classifieds platform Letgo, which vies with Craiglist in the United States.
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Founded in 1915 as Nasionale Pers, or National Press, Naspers has transformed itself from an apartheid-era newspaper publisher into a $64 billion Internet powerhouse by focusing on e-commerce platforms such as auction sites and classified ads in emerging markets.
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Some of these mass classified ads focused on a variety of communities, offering the opportunity for individuals to advertise yard sales or small, local businesses the opportunity to advertise their wares to the consumers most likely to support the businesses.
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"This bill jeopardizes not only classified ads sites but also dating apps, discussion forums, social media sites, and any other service that hosts user-generated content," said Emma Llansó of the Center for Democracy & Technology in a public statement opposing the bill.
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FRANKFURT, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Germany's Axel Springer , publisher of Europe's best-selling tabloid Bild, sees full-year earnings at the upper end of its forecast range after a strong first half driven by classified ads and digital subscriptions, it said on Wednesday.
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Though Naspers is one of the most active investors in the world – it committed $1.5 billion to companies last year, including Avito, an online classified ads company in Moscow — the company has created smaller operating companies around certain sectors where it has a wealth of bets.
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Valentine, who can get lonely at home by herself, got Cody four months ago when she saw on Gumtree (a U.K. based classified ads service) that a local man who'd been keeping the raccoon in a cat carrier didn't know how to take care of him.
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In January, Jesse Cohn, a partner at Elliott and head of its U.S. Equity Activism, wrote to eBay's board to urge a sale of StubHub ticketing and its classified-ads business, forecasting that doing so could help push the stock price to as high as $63 a share in 2020.
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At this point, we've sent a Doritos commercial, the molecular formula for alcohol (accompanied with 'cheers!' of course), and a bunch of Craigslist classified ads to other solar systems, as well as more scientifically rigorous messages in which we've attempted to teach an alien recipient about math, science, and life on Earth.
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"This case highlights a disturbing — and growing — trend of government actors issuing blunderbuss demands for documents to online publishers of content created by third parties (such as classified ads) in a manner that chills First Amendment rights," the company claims in it's petition to chief Justice John Roberts for immediate stay on Tuesday.
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How many papers could brag that their readers literally lined up in front of newsstands in Sheridan Square and Astor Place on the Tuesday nights when it appeared in order to be among the first to get a crack at its classified ads for apartments, jobs and the notices placed by those looking for love in its back pages?
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"The only difference between Facebook's ad targeting practice and the sex-segregated classified ads of yore is that Facebook — unlike newspapers, which are distributed to the general public — can actually ensure that specific ads are only delivered to its male or female users, or to users of a specific age range, according to the advertisers' selection," the ACLU wrote in a statement.
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Like other apps that are disrupting the market for selling used goods on more legacy platforms — be they old-style classified ads, or eBay or Craigslist — LetGo is focused on reducing the number of steps that it takes to upload items, in order to reduce the drop-off in users that takes place when posting involves too many steps; and is hoping to do some of the work for you via AI. Here, you take a photo of your object, and LetGo uses computer vision and machine learning to identify the object for you, and then automatically title and categorise it.
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