Attorneys general in 17 states have banded together to call on Craigslist, the online classified ad website, to discontinue its adult services section.
CNN's Amber Lyon confronts Craiglist and speaks with people who sell sex on the site.
On a late afternoon in early June, undercover police officers circled a one-story highway motel north of Washington. Inside was a 12-year-old girl who told her mother she was being forced to work as a prostitute.
Three men accused of killing a Washington state man in a home invasion after the victim posted an internet ad were arraigned Monday, with all three pleading not guilty.
A Seattle man is killed after placing an ad on Craigslist. CNN's Dan Simon reports.
The explosion of Craigslist's online classifieds. The death of Napster. The "Twitter Revolution" in Iran.
CNN's Errol Barnett looks through the most influential web events of the past decade, as determined by the Webby Awards.
Craigslist's managers have complied with the wishes of most of the state attorneys general who demanded they rid the site of prostitution ads.
A medical student accused of killing a masseuse in a Boston, Massachusetts, hotel room will be charged in a hotel assault in Rhode Island, the state attorney general said Monday.
Philip Markoff, the suspect in the Boston Craigslist killing, faces an arrest warrant in Rhode Island.
A 22-year-old college student in Boston, Massachusetts, has been charged with murder in connection with the death of a woman who may have been contacted through a Craigslist ad, police said.
Police in Boston, Massachusetts, are searching for a man suspected in the murder of one woman and the armed robbery of two others, all of whom, they say, he may have met through their Craigslist ads for personal services.
CNN's Thelma Gutierrez says people are turning to Craigslist for jobs, clothes and food.
Ernie Casillas lived the good life as he doled out millions of dollars in loans in California. The former banker drove fancy cars and took extravagant vacations.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is lending his stature to an initiative from the incoming administration to connect volunteers with causes that need them.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorses USAservice.org, where volunteers can find ways to volunteer.
Craigslist is the online classifieds behemoth in the U.S., but there's some other savvy companies circling these listings
Looking to buy a used car dealership, or a Pizza Hut franchise? Thinking of selling your company? A new marketplace, BizTrader.com, is ready to play matchmaker.
Money Magazine: Beach-rental bingoupdated: Wed May 02 2007 09:15:00
Unless you're looking to buy a new home right now, you may be having a hard time imagining the upside to the bursting of the real estate bubble. Well, here's one: There are a lot more places to rent at the beach.
Online auctioneer eBay is starting to face some criticism from Wall Street as its growth rate cools off and competition from the likes of Google and Yahoo! increases.
The good news for traditional media companies is that despite the notion that they are a dying breed, many have taken the right steps to embrace the online world.
The God Algorithm is dead. There isn't a computational technique that will get the right answer to a search query the first time, every time, the way an omnipotent, omniscient deity would. Far from...
Okay, okay ... yes. yes ... so I'm wrong (about the market going down when oil prices go up). Stocks soared on Tuesday as the Fed signaled that interest rate hikes may be winding down. ... I still say that at some point, folks, something has gotta give here!
Fortune: All in a day's workupdated: Thu Mar 16 2006 13:38:00
To really get inside the way today's business leaders do their jobs, FORTUNE spent an entire day shadowing three top executives: the laid-back techie who runs online classified site Craigslist; the pioneering boss of ad sales at CBS; and the nonstop CEO of an NBA team. From coast to coast, sunrise to sunset, we logged every meeting, e-mail and coffee break. Right up to the final buzzer. See scenes from their day.
PayPal is getting back to its mobile roots.
Craigslist, the do-it-yourself online classified listing that many investors hope will soar to Google-like proportions if it ever gets around to issuing stock, is being sued for discriminatory housing ads and asked to police its content the same way newspapers must, according to a report Thursday.
For most of its existence, eBay has enjoyed a virtual monopoly, if not an "Eliot Spitzer wants to talk" sort of monopoly. It now commands more than 90 percent of the online auction market, and from...
For most of its existence, eBay has enjoyed a virtual monopoly, if not an Eliot Spitzer wants to talk sort of monopoly. It now commands more than 90 percent of the online auction market, and from 1999 to 2004 it posted at least 40 percent annual profit growth every year, even as brawny competitors like Amazon and Yahoo were taking runs at its core business.
A couple weeks ago, my wife and I caught a lengthy but entertaining promo for the Winter Olympics on NBC. It consisted of ice skaters skating, plus a song that combined hip-hop and arena rock by a group we didn't know.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Should Google start looking for a Monster under its corporate bed?
Expect a somber mood Wednesday at the UBS Global Media Conference in New York City: It is newspaper day.
Craigslist, the mostly free online classifieds Web site, is about to make more money. The company plans in 2006 to begin charging employers to post job listings in four new cities: Boston, Washington, D.C., San Diego and Seattle. It's also set to collect a nominal fee, no more than $10, from New York City real estate brokers for their property listings.
For those with plenty of money looking for a unique gift for someone special, the DuPont Registry is offering a few suggestions this holiday season. You'll need plenty of wrapping paper, and your friends will need extra room under their Christmas trees.
Author and blogger John Battelle knows about as much as any outsider about what happens at Google and its search site. So when a reader of his blog pointed out to Battelle something he hadn't notic...
They're only online, produced on the cheap and aim to replace your local paper as your primary source for neighborhood news.
In 1994, most people had to call the bank to check their balances. Or inquire in person, or wait for a paper statement to arrive in the mail. Baseball box scores were found in the newspaper. Weather forecasts came over the phone from the weather bureau, or on TV.
CNNMoney: Cult of convenienceupdated: Mon Mar 28 2005 16:03:00
The worst job in the court of Henry VIII -- other than queen -- may have been "groom of the stool."
Craigslist, the popular community Web site that generates more than 1 billion page views each month, has cost newspapers in the San Francisco Bay area $50 million to $65 million in help wanted ad revenue, according to a new study.
If you can't be an innovator, why not be a copycat? Mark Pincus, a 37-year-old Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, has made a career out of riding the wake of hot technology trends. His first three...
Along with the perks of the job Hilary Schneider accepted in April came one rather dubious distinction. As president and CEO of Knight Ridder Digital, the Internet unit of the second-largest newspa...
DEAR ANNIE: For the past few months I've been looking for a new job. I have applied to three or four online job listings per week and have posted my resume on several job boards. I've yet to hear a...
Some time ago, Mark Willes, the 58-year-old CEO of Times Mirror Corp., was ushered into the tenth-floor conference room at the New York Times, where the newspaper's editorial board welcomes heads o...
There are a few things you can say with confidence about the CEO of a typical big American company--he's rich, white, and Republican, for instance. Now you can add another: Increasingly, he's afrai...
That charming rolled-eave summer cottage in Carmel-by-the-Sea? Too late, it's already rented. The chalet in Aspen? Gone. So too is that choice waterfront home in New York's Hamptons. While it may b...
SWDF, 41, seeks SM, 35-50, for friendship, maybe romance. Professional woman, Tom Clancy fan, enjoys hiking, biking, walks on beach. Kids okay.
How does your company recruit technical workers? Still hanging that tacky job openings sign by the plant gate? Or maybe you're running cryptic classifieds. Are you happy with the results? As techni...
First Fisherman George Bush knows that what you catch depends on your bait. Collectors know it too. And in recent years, it has been antique fishing lures -- all of them at least 50 years older tha...
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