| Date | Title | Description |
| 02.01.2013 | Social Classifieds Startup Adzuna Benefits As Oodle Redirects Its Old UK Site There | Remember Oodle? The long-time classified ads site was acquired by TV shopping channel QVC last month. Oodle had a nascent international operation which probably didn’t make sense in the new entity. As a result, bits of it are being hived of... |
| 05.12.2012 | QVC Acquires Social Classifieds Veteran Oodle To Help Power Its Social Commerce Evolution | Founded in 2005 by former Excite execs, Oodle quickly became one of the largest aggregators and search engines for classifieds on the Web. After some bumps and hiccups along the way, the company began to focus more on the social side of cla... |
| 01.10.2012 | Facebook acqui-hires Carsabi, more for the sabi than the car | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Car-buying service Carsabi has been acquired by F... |
| 01.10.2012 | Facebook acqui-hires Carsabi, more for the sabi than the car | Car-buying service Carsabi has been acquired by Facebook, sort of. Just not for the car part.
Founders Dwight Crow and Christopher Berner were acqui-hired by Facebook today. Terms were not disclosed, but what is clear is that Facebook is no... |
| 25.06.2012 | No Craigslist, no problem: PadMapper refocuses on PadLister to source apartment rentals | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Last week, Craigslist blocked apartment search st... |
| 25.06.2012 | No Craigslist, no problem: PadMapper refocuses on PadLister to source apartment rentals | Last week, Craigslist blocked apartment search startup PadMapper from accessing its rental listings. This week, PadMapper founder Eric DeMenthon refocused on his apartments-for-rent sister service PadLister as a source to feed rental listin... |
| 22.02.2012 | BloomReach launches to get content found via search | After stealth mode for three years, start-up emerges to help companies with SEO, SEM and social
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(Correction: To reflect Joelle Kaufman as head of marketing)
If you own a website - large or small - you know that one of the toughest things ... |
| 08.02.2012 | 3 strategies for making e-commerce truly social | In just one year from now, we’ll see social technologies disrupt e-commerce the same way they’ve already disrupted online gaming, music and news.
Commerce has always been social. Shopping in the real world is a form of social entertainment,... |
| 08.02.2012 | 3 strategies for making e-commerce truly social | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In just one year from now, we’ll see social techn... |
| 30.01.2012 | What Pinterest is Doing That Facebook Isn’t | Pinterest is growing fast, and 80% of the site’s users are women ages 25-44.
Laura Skelton, owner of Prix-Prix, told me about Pinterest months ago when we met up one chilly Chicago morning for brunch. “Have you tried Pinterest?” she asked m... |
| 11.07.2011 | Defining Social Commerce: A Tale of Three Conversations | Everyone, especially Wall Street, is standing up to salute social commerce. Look at the IPO pipeline – LinkedIn, Groupon, Zynga, Living Social. But despite all this attention, the definition of social commerce is fuzzy at best. How do we kn... |
| 24.02.2011 | Oodle study: 330 crimes related to Craigslist | Facebook marketplace Oodle calls Craigslist a "cesspool of crime"
Correction: Typo--Craigslist gets 50 million postings each month, not 50,000.
Oodle, a marketplace for Facebook users (akin to a classifieds section), launched an i... |
| 13.02.2011 | Inside the DNA of the Facebook Mafia | A lot of things about Facebook have been impressive, even by the Silicon Valley standards. Almost no other Valley company has reached so many people around the world so quickly. Few Valley companies have been considered important forces in ... |
| 05.02.2011 | Social Commerce And The New Rules For Local Businesses | Editor’s note: Guest writer Craig Donato is the CEO of Oodle, a social maretplace that powers the Facebook Marketplace.
Ecommerce today is imbued with the same DNA that runs through Google. It’s automated. It’s algorithmic. It’s certainly n... |
| 14.12.2010 | Oodle Widens Its Social Reach On Facebook Marketplace | When Oodle started out six years ago as a classifieds search engine, it’s focus was all around search and bringing together the best classified ads from all over the web. Today, it still does that, but increasingly it is moving more and mor... |
| 14.12.2010 | Oodle’s upgraded marketplace is all about friends | The social shopping industry seems to be heating up, with hordes of somewhat-related startups launching this year. But a slightly older website called Oodle has been bringing social features to its classified listings for a while now, and t... |
| 23.11.2010 | Will the Real "eBay of Social" Please Stand Up? (TCTV) | In the venture business being ahead of your time can be almost as bad as being late to a market. But the other great thing about the venture business is there are exceptions to every rule. Craig Donato is hoping that Oodle is the exception ... |
| 22.11.2010 | Yardsellr raises $5 million for social market | eBay for Facebook and Twitter users picks up a Series A from Accel Partners and Harrison Metal
Yardsellr, a place to buy and sell items within a friend network, has raised a $5 million Series A round of funding led by Accel Partners, with p... |
| 17.11.2010 | Social Classifieds Service Oodle Buys Grouply | In online classifieds, as with any marketplace, the more buyers and sellers a company can bring together, the more listings it can generate. Oodle is about to add 1.6 million groups to its social commerce platform. Oodle is acquiring Groupl... |
| 08.09.2010 | Oodle Aggregates $1.5M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
San Mateo, CA-based Oodle, which aggregates online classified ads in categories such as cars, homes, apartments, and pets, has raised $1.5 million in an equity financing round... |
| 03.08.2010 | Lazarus moment? – Bebo is actually hiring again? | While everyone is writing-off Bebo as being a) an expensive acquisition by AOL ($850 million in March 2008) b) a sale only two years later for virtually peanuts and c) a social network that appears to have no future in the Age Of Facebook, ... |
| 17.06.2010 | One Loo or Two? Google Maps Adds Properties in U.K. | Google is determined, one way or another, to convince the Brits that its Maps and Street View are worth more than simply violating their privacy. Today, the ever-cataloging and image-capturing company has added a new feature to its U.K. ver... |
| 31.03.2010 | Bing Maps adds “mash-ins” for tracking real-time Foursquare check-ins and more | Microsoft has just launched some cool new features for its Bing Maps mapping service. Through partnerships with popular location-based game service Foursquare and classified ad service Oodle, Bing now has features that will you track on a m... |
| 31.03.2010 | Bing Maps adds “mash-ins” for tracking real-time Foursquare check-ins and more | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Microsoft has just launched some cool new feature... |
| 06.01.2010 | Online Classifieds Site Oodle Now Lets Users Publish Listings To Their Social Streams | Online classifieds service Oodle is socializing its listings with a new interface that allows users to publish listings directly to their social streams on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. Oodle already powers the classifieds listings for Fac... |
| 06.08.2009 | OLX And hi5 Join Forces For International Expansion Plans | OLX and hi5, both challengers to dominating juggernauts in their respective fields (online classifieds and social networking), have teamed up to expose each others’ admittedly vast but geographically spread audience to one another. OLX says... |
| 03.03.2009 | TinkOmatic Makes Deal and Job Hunting More Organized (500 Invites) | In this economy, everyone is looking for a good deal. Startup TinkOmatic (currently in private beta) allows deal-hunting consumers to search and track classifieds or auction sites for multiple items at once, all in one location. Tracking cl... |
| 23.02.2009 | After MySpace And Facebook, Oodle To Power Brand New AOL Classifieds | Classifieds aggregation service provider Oodle is on a roll and definitely one of the startups worth following closely this year. After signing up two social networking juggernauts – both MySpace and Facebook – the company is now apparently... |
| 10.02.2009 | Oodle Shows Decent Growth, Adds $5.6 Million More To Its War Chest | Online classifieds service Oodle is reporting decent growth in the first month of 2009 with over 10 million visits (both Quantcast and Compete reflect a significant traffic surge). Add to that the fact that social networking juggernaut Face... |
| 09.02.2009 | Oodle raises round, plans to relaunch Facebook Marketplace soon | Classified ad network Oodle seems to be banking on the idea that more people will buying and selling stuff informally during a recession. It has just raised $5.6 million from existing investors.
The San Mateo, Calif.-based company also says... |
| 02.12.2008 | Facebook hands classifieds service to Oodle | Facebook has spent months looking for a partner to take over an in-house classifieds application it launched in May of 2007, called Marketplace. The app hasn’t gained significant traction in the last year and a half. Now, Facebook has found... |
| 02.12.2008 | Confirmed: Oodle To Power Facebook Classifieds | As we speculated last month, Facebook is about to hand over its official classifieds listings to a partner, and that partner is Oodle, we have been able to confirm. An announcement may be made as early as tomorrow.
What is interesting about... |
| 22.11.2008 | Facebook Getting Serious About Classifieds; May Relaunch This Year | Here’s a rumor that won’t go away – Facebook has been quietly searching for a partner to take over their year and a half old classified listings application, and may relaunch as early as the end of December.
According to our sources, Facebo... |
| 09.06.2008 | Microsoft Exits Classified Listings Business | Microsoft Live Expo, their experiment with classified listings that launched in early 2006, will be shut down on July 31, says a notice posted on the site. New listings have already been suspended.
This comes as Craigslist solidifies its po... |
| 30.05.2008 | Walmart Launches Classified Listings | Walmart has added a classified listings service to their site. Silicon Valley startup Oodle, which was founded in 2004, is powering the service.
The listings are free, which means Walmart is likely doing the deal to generate page views and ... |
| 19.11.2007 | Oodle releases upgraded classified search | Oodle, an online classified advertising companies, has just released a new version that makes online classifieds hunting a little easier.
The San Mateo, California company (previous coverage) already scrapes other sites for classifieds and ... |
| 18.11.2007 | Oodle Revamps Site and Is Testing an Ad Network for Classifieds | Classifieds search engine Oodle has just pushed through a major upgrade to its Website, which searches 30 million active classifieds listings across the Web. It is also testing an ad network across other sites that drops a local classified ... |
| 18.05.2007 | Facebook growing, but more roadkill coming? | Facebook is growing quickly, adding between 100,000 and 150,000 new users per day, the company tells us, with the highest growth rates coming from abroad.
Particularly noteworthy is its traction in Canada, where it has more than 2 million a... |
| 07.05.2007 | Top 17 Search Innovations Outside Of Google | Written by Nitin Karandikar
There are an abundance of new search engines (100+ at last count ) – each pioneering some innovation in search technology. Here is a list of the top 17 innovations that, in our opinion, will prove disruptivein th... |
| 26.04.2007 | Vflyer offers mobile classifieds | Vflyer, the San Francisco-based classifieds company, today adds a new mobile service to distribute and manage classified ads on mobile devices.
It looks particularly useful for real estate agents, who are always on the go. The offering give... |
| 21.03.2007 | Oodle Raises $11 million | Classified search engine Oodle got a pile of cash today, $11 million from new investor JAFCO Ventures and the leaders of their previous $5 million round, Greylock Partners and Redpoint Ventures. Like LiveDeal, Edgeio, and Vast, Oodle repack... |
| 20.03.2007 | Oodle, giving you classifieds — with a touch of help | updated
Oodle, the San Mateo, Calif. online classifieds company has oodles of competition, but venture capitalists have invested $11 million more to help it stand out.
On its face, Oodle is not that different from Craigslist, and other clas... |
| 01.12.2006 | Online Classifieds Market Overview | Written by Alex Iskold and edited by Richard MacManus.
A few weeks ago we were briefed by the co-founder of vFlyer, Oliver Muoto, about the changes and new features
in their upcoming release. Oliver gave us a great overview of the service (... |
| 20.09.2006 | Roundup: Apple secrets, India hype, Cheney’s visit, VideoEgg, Zillow, | Here is a shotgun of the latest stuff in raging Silicon Valley, leading of course with video:
VideoEgg gets easier — VideoEgg, a site that lets you download software so you can post video on any site, has partnered to make the process easie... |
| 28.02.2006 | BlogBuy, another player in the blog-classifieds model | BlogBuy launched yesterday. It’s a way for people to post classified ads via their blogs. A user posts an item for sale on the BlogBuy site and the ad automatically gets published on his or her blog.
BlogBuy supports hListing, a proposed mi... |
| 21.12.2005 | Oodle Does add Events/Tickets Category | I wrote about this last week – and Oodle now has officially added events and tickets as a category.
This seem to be primarily a combination of meetup events and tickets from a number of ticket brokers, including stubhub. There’s lots on mon... |
| 18.11.2005 | Greylock raises tidy sum — and invests in shopping start-up, Cairo | Updated
Greylock Partners, the venture capital firm that has offices in San Mateo, has raised a tidy sum of $500 million for its latest fund. It is looking pretty green here in the heart of VC land — Menlo Park/Palo Alto/San Mateo — and not... |
| 14.10.2005 | craigslists gets heavy with Oodle | Uber classifieds site craiglisthas requested that Oodle, a classifieds ‘meta’ search engine, refrain from scraping its content. This has the potential to be the first high-profile case of a mash-up site being slapped for taking another site... |
| 14.10.2005 | Craigslist blocks Oodle | Craigslist, the online classifieds company that is big in the Bay Area and elsewhere, had told Oodle that it can no longer take Craiglist’s listings for inclusion in its site.
As search engine expert John Battelle points out, he’d wondered ... |
| 15.06.2005 | What’s Andreessen cooking now? | We wish we knew. But alas, this News.com story is a bit vague with the details. This we know, according to the story: Andreessen is on the board of a stealth Palo Alto start-up called 24 Hour Laundry, “a blogging and social networking site ... |
| 07.04.2005 | Silicon Valley shakeups continue: Tribe replaces Pincus | UPDATE: Tribe Networks has has appointed Jan Gullett, a consumer marketing specialist, to replace CEO Mark Pincus. See more at bottom of extended entry below. Also, note that Craig from Craigslist chimes in, saying it only took him five yea... |
| 04.04.2005 | LiveDeal approaches venture capitalists | LiveDeal, the Palo Alto-based online classifieds start-up is apparently on the trail (sub req) to raise between $7 and $10 million in its first venture capital round. We first wrote about LiveDeal here. Our two cents: It’s going to be tough... |
