We had first reported the Matrix Partners and Ebay backed free online classifieds website Kijiji.in going in for a re-branding. Quikr.com, it’s new avatar, has now gone public. Afaqs quotes Jiby Thomas, co-founder and VP Marketing, Quikr.com, as stating that the Matrix Partner funding in February (prior to which Kijiji.in…

Matrix Partners and eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) backed free online classifieds website Kijiji.in has re-branded itself as Quikr.com. The site as of this night was still undergoing migration and had a referral to Kijiji India. A notice on Kijiji indicates more changes Quikr might feature more than just a cosmetic and…

—- Sulekha has tied up exclusively for content with CareerBuildersIndia.com for its ‘Premium Jobs’ section. The section will be co-branded although on checking it wasn’t live as yet. —- Cricinfo has tied up with Myntra.com, the online personalized merchandise portal, to offer cricket merchandise. Cricinfo users can customize T-shirts, mugs,…

User review portal MouthShut has gone in for a re-design, adding local listings and reviews to the mix. Currently it lists entries from 20 cities and small towns covering restaurants, malls, pubs and clubs. According to the release, it seems more like a navigation tweak with citywise categorization of content…

People Group’s real estate property, Makaan.com, has launched an SMS based mobile application, developed by sister concern, Mauj Mobile. The difference being that while those like Magicbricks have apps that require GPRS connectivity, ‘Makaan Mobile’ is purely SMS based. The release quotes Aditya Verma, Business Head, Makaan.com, stating “With the…

HT Media’s job portal Shine.com has gone live…the tagline - “Shine is a place to grow”. The site, currently in beta, is at present accepting registration from job seekers. I did a couple of random jobseeking searches on Google (NSDQ: GOOG) - it doesn’t appear as if they’re doing Search…

Sulekha.com, the grand-daddy of Indian community portals, which had raised $10 million from Norwest Venture Partners is considering an IPO in 2009. Business Standard reports that the company expects to have revenues of around $30 million by then. It appears that they’re taking the tried and tested route to monetization…

The Times Group (BCCL), had hived off its classifieds business into a separate entity called Times Business Solutions Ltd (TBSL), and appointed R. Sundar as CEO and Rajiv Gaur as COO. The move was officially announced a few days ago. TBSL includes e-recruitment services (Timesjobs & SmartHire), real estate portal…

Nasdaq listed Jupiter Media is taking a cautious approach to India: the company’s Chairman and CEO Alan Meckler was in India for a couple of days - his first trip to the country - and I met him on Saturday to talk about their plans. Jupiter Media (NSDQ: JUPM) has…

This just in: Dice Holdings has sold its stake in Cybermedia Dice Careers to Pradeep Gupta, the founder of speciality media house Cybermedia, a BSE listed entity. Cybermedia Dice Careers, which owns the technology focused jobs portal Cybermedia Dice, was founded as a joint venture between Cybermedia and Dice’s Indian…

Updated below Kijiji India, the Indian site for Ebay Inc’s general classifieds business, will now be jointly owned by by the company and VC fund Matrix Partners, as per a release. The terms of agreement and details of the deal have not been disclosed, but suffice to say that Matrix…

People Interactive (Shaadi Group) is planning to spend Rs. 40 crores over the next two years on portal Makaan.com, the real estate portal it had launched recently [via BS]. Other real estate classifieds portals like Magic Bricks (Times Group) and 99Acres (Naukri Group) have been around for a while now,…

Notz Stucki, a European asset management company is in line, alongwith PE funds including General Atlantic, Blackstone and Warburg Pincus for acquiring ICICI Ventures’ 63 percent stake in Infomedia, reports the Economic Times. Reed Business Info, ICICI’s JV partner in Infomedia is also keen on buying ICICI Ventures’ sake, but…

Yo! We were tipped off about yet another classifieds portal, this time from the Times Group, yo! They’re launching YoList.com, yo! I think I’ll stop yo-yoing about and get down to the details: The domain servers are hosted by Indiatimes. The site features listings related to matrimonial, property, vehicles, recruitment,…

Sulekha.com has entered into a three-year tieup with Sify to manage and control the Sify Classifieds site. [via agencyfaqs] Sulekha will provide software, algorithms and customer service to Sify Classifieds and share its database listings. Online surfers from 22 cities can post ads on either Sify Classifieds or Sulekha.com and…

Binu TG, co-founder of auto classifieds website AutoIndia.com informs us that V. Chandramouli is joining the portal as CEO. Chandramouli has put in his papers at Sify, where he was heading Consumer Channels, Content and the Education vertical. His mandate at AutoIndia will be do develop channel parterships and monetize…

People Interactive (the Shaadi Group) has launched a real estate portal called Makaan.com, and there’s a review up at ReviewSaurus (via WATBlog). Others in this classifieds space include MagicBricks (Times Group), 99acres (Naukri Group), Indiaproperty (Bharatmatrimony Group) and Jaaydaad. WATBlog has compared some of these sites, here. Notice how Naukri,…

In 2006, a mere 24 percent of Indian youth surfing the Net used dating and friendship sites, while 15 percent registered on matrimonial sites. That percentage has surged to 51 percent for dating sites and 48 percent for matrimonial sites in 2007, according to a recent report on matrimonial services…

Info Edge India (the Naukri Group) has launched a website for career guidance - asknaukri.com - in collaboration with career guidance company Workeasy. This seems to mark the beginning of a horizontal expansion for the company - from job listings to other aspects related to jobs. AskNaukri focuses on aspects…