Kijiji offer to adjudicate you and your partners clutter

February 27, 2010

Do you have arguments with your partner over clutter in your house? If so (and if you’re in the US) Kijiji is offering the chance to sort it out once and for all. They’re running a “Clutter Court” giving you the opportunity to have a consultation… Read more

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eBay to retire the Kijiji brand?

March 1, 2009

While Gumtree is the top classifieds site in the UK it appears that Kijiji is far from achieving the same penetration in the US. eBay are now trialling a name change to “eBay Classifieds” in two US cities – San Antonio TX and Pittsburgh PA. The… Read more

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eBay to dump StumbleUpon, expand classifieds

September 19, 2008

TechCrunch are reporting that eBay are to sell StumbleUpon, the website discovery service they bought in May 2007 for $75million. According to TechCrunch’s source, eBay have hired Deutsche Bank to find a buyer for the site. Whether they’ll make… Read more

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Kijiji one, PayPal ten, but Skype nowhere?

June 26, 2008

Last week at Live, eBay’s classified ads site Kijiji celebrated their first birthday by giving away bags of popcorn on the exhibition floor. The site now has four million users in north America, and General Manager Janet Bannister promised, “we… Read more

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Gumtree winning the classified ads wars

February 19, 2008

News is out this week that eBay classified ads sites are trouncing the competition. In the US Kijiji has overtaken both Yahoo! Classifieds and Windows Live Expo, and are so far ahead of Google Base and Google Classifieds that they don’t even… Read more

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