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.
As all people of conscience will agree, human trafficking and child exploitation are utterly despicable and horrendous crimes.
New York authorities indicted seven people accused of running a prostitution ring on the Web site Craigslist, the state's attorney general announced Wednesday.
CEO Jim Buckmaster says Craigslist responded to "constructive criticism" and replaced the "erotic services" listings.
Craigslist will replace its controversial online "erotic services" listings with a section where ads are individually checked by Craigslist employees before they are posted, according to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal.
Craigslist may face criminal action in South Carolina unless the online classifieds service stops running ads the state says promote prostitution and pornography, the state attorney general's office said Thursday.
Three state attorneys general were scheduled to meet with Craigslist representatives to begin negotiations toward eliminating advertisements from the site for prostitution and other suspected illegal sexual activities.
CNN's Veronica De La Cruz reports on a story of teens selling sex on the Internet site, CraigsList.
For more than two years, undercover cops on the Sacramento Police Department's vice squad have been working one of the most draining beats: trying to crack down on online child prostitution.
Sensitive and stolen U.S. military items are being sold on eBay and Craigslist, according to a report by the Government Accountability Office.
Fortune: All in a Day's Workupdated: Mon Mar 20 2006 00:01:00
Their styles are wildly different, but all three leaders have BLACK BELTS IN PRODUCTIVITY. (For a multitasking box score, go to the last page of foldout.)
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.
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.
Fortune: BURNING SENSATIONupdated: Mon Dec 12 2005 00:01:00
ON AN UNCHARACTERISTICALLY sunny November day, in an unfashionable neighborhood of San Francisco, Craig Newmark ambles into his cramped office at Craigslist, the online classified-listings company....
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.
It may not have the instantly identifiable primary-colored logo of eBay, but another Web site is having a big impact on how business is done in Cyberspace.
My found-through-Craigslist inventory runs deep. My last two apartments. My dining room table. My living room couches. My futon. Red Sox tickets. Freelance writing assignments. I sold my car through the service.
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