Jeff Dickey-Chasins

August 2011 News Roundup

August 3, 2011

job board news Universum Development buys Doostang: Universum Development, the parent company of employer branding provider Universum Group, said yesterday it has purchased job site Doostang for an undisclosed amount. Doostang markets itself as a career platform expressly for [...]

July 2011 News Roundup

July 5, 2011

job board news Military.com and Monster.com Launch Enhanced Veterans Career Center: Monster.com launched a new veterans’ career portal in collaboration with Military.com, a free military and veteran online news and membership organization serving active duty personnel, [...]

June 2011 News Roundup

June 1, 2011

job board news .Jobs Manager Seeks Arbitration by International Court: In an admission that negotiations have failed, the manager of the .jobs addresses has filed to arbitrate its dispute with the Internet’s addressing authority over its awarding [...]

May 2011 News Roundup

May 2, 2011

job board news BranchOut Social Jobs Site Grabs a Yahoo Exec: BranchOut, the professional social network built on top of Facebook, has hired Chris Merritt from his post as Yahoo’s VP of global advertiser partnerships. Merritt is [...]

April 2011 News Roundup

March 31, 2011

job board news ICANN Says .Jobs Operation Violates Rules: The Internet’s addressing authority has ordered the manager of the .Jobs domains to fix problems with how it issues addresses within 30 days or face the cancellation [...]

March 2011 news roundup

February 28, 2011

job board news Dice posts large revenue increase in Q4: Revenues for the quarter totaled $37.9 million, an increase of 42% from the $26.7 million reported a year before. Dice attributed the growth to strong recruitment activity [...]

February 2011 news roundup

January 31, 2011

job board news Hundreds of both geographical and vocational .jobs domains are live: The controversial and highly debated Universe.jobs project has launched, and now hundreds of both geographical and vocational .jobs domains are live, according [...]

January 2011 news roundup

January 1, 2011

job board news Shares of Monster “far outperform…industry peers”: According to the Reuters news service, Monster’s stock has “far outperformed both its Internet and staffing industry peers.” Reuters credits Monster for curbing costs during the [...]

December 2010 news roundup

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job board news Monster Worldwide share rise on 3Q report: Monster Worldwide Inc. said Thursday it slid to a third-quarter loss mainly due to costs related to acquiring its former rival site HotJobs. But adjusted [...]

November 2010 news roundup

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job board news Jobing buys Recruiting.com: Seattle-based Recruiting.com has been purchased by AZ-based job site Jobing.com for an undisclosed amount, in a transaction completed in July but just announced. CareerBuilder launches Facebook application: CareerBuilder’s Work@ [...]

Social Intelligence launches social media background check & monitoring for employers

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Social Intelligence Corp., a provider of specialized employment screening and monitoring services, launched its Social Intelligence product line on Tuesday. The analytics and services are designed to scour social media for insight into employment and [...]

October 2010 news roundup

September 30, 2010

job board news RecruitingBlogs and Recruiter.com merge: Recruiter.com and RecruitingBlogs.com Inc. announced a definitive merger agreement to create a new USA based company, Recruiter.com, LLC, which will offer a platform to facilitate recruiter and HR [...]

Adecco chops job board spending

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Adecco cut spending on paid sites such as Monster and CareerBuilder by two-thirds between 2007 and 2009, from $6 million to $2 million, North American marketing chief Ed Blust told an analyst meeting on Friday. [...]

Madgex moves into the U.S. job board market

September 17, 2010

Madgex, the U.K.’s most prominent job board software provider, appointed Amped Market Place Inc. (AMP) on Thursday as the sole distributor of its software and services in the United States. Madgex has been in operation [...]

RecruitingBlogs.com and Recruiter.com merge

September 2, 2010

Recruiter.com and RecruitingBlogs.com Inc. announced a definitive merger agreement today, creating a new US-based company called Recruiter.com, LLC. The merged company will provide an integrated platform to facilitate recruiter and HR social networking, knowledge sharing, [...]

Kenexa adds Jobfox for 2x BrassRing customers

Kenexa September 1, 2010

Kenexa added Jobfox’s job board feed to Kenexa’s 2x BrassRing service on Monday. BrassRing customers will be able to post unlimited jobs to Jobfox via Kenexa’s Talent Gateway system. “By expanding our partnership with Jobfox, [...]

September 2010 roundup

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job board news Indeed adds 24 countries: Indeed has added 24 new countries to its coverage, bringing the total number to 53 (and 12 more languages). Dice sees a rise in revenue, adds Talent Network, [...]

Monster closes on Hot Jobs, stock price drops

MonsterHotJobs August 24, 2010

Monster closed its $225 million acquisition today of Yahoo’s HotJobs. Shares of Monster stock fell 1.6%, or 17 cents, to $10.47. Yahoo’s shares also fell by 1% amidst broad market declines. The deal also includes [...]

.jobs domain expansion approved – ideas encouraged

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The expansion of the .jobs domain to include location- and profession-specific URLs has been approved by ICANN. “We’re very pleased with the decision rendered by the ICANN Board,” said Tom Embrescia, chairman of Employ Media. [...]

Recruitment vendor news signals renewed growth

August 4, 2010

Recent developments in the recruiting software industry seem to point to increased activity and growth in the sector, which is in line with recent employment and economic news. The U.K. HR technology company MrTed has [...]

Dice revenues increase 11% year over year

July 28, 2010

Dice reported today that it saw an increase of 11% from $27 million in the comparable quarter in 2009. It earned 6 cents a share on 2nd quarter revenues of $29.9 million – which beat [...]

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