News roundup

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, [...]

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 [...]

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

November 30, 2010

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

October 29, 2010

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@ [...]

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 [...]

September 2010 roundup

September 1, 2010

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, [...]

August 2010 roundup

July 28, 2010

Both CareerBuilder and Dice revenue up in the second quarter, .jobs public comment storm at ICANN.org and lots of other interesting news…

July 2010 roundup

July 1, 2010

Among other news this month, Google has just released a list of the 1,000 most visited websites on the Internet, and the highest-ranked website in the jobs category is China’s 51job.com…

June 2010 roundup

June 1, 2010

This roundup includes a significant acquisition and it’s nice to see one after a long drought!

May 2010 roundup

May 1, 2010

.jobs news, SimplyHired and FB, FTC issued what is often referred to as a “second request” for the $225 million HotJobs/Monster deal, etc

April 2010 roundup

April 1, 2010

CareerBuilder has launched JobsOnTheMenu.com, DirectEmployers took down its .jobs boards a few weeks ago, Dice Holdings which runs a variety of online job sites filed with the SEC to sell up to $50 million of stock, and lots more…

March 2010 roundup

March 1, 2010

Monster.com buys HotJobs.com, Dice Holdings said Tuesday it returned to a profit in the fourth quarter, CareerBuilder reported $131 million in revenue, a 30.5 percent decline from the last quarter of 2008 and more…

February 2010 roundup

February 1, 2010

SnagAJob.com tops 20 million registered users, fourth quarter results for HotJobs.com parent Yahoo! show a 4 percent decrease from the fourth quarter of 2008, and more…

January 2010 roundup

January 1, 2010

CareerBuilder’s Matt Ferguson doesn’t see pay for performance replacing the pay to post model for job boards anytime soon, if ever. Nor have the job aggregators had much of an impact on the business. Famous last words?

December 2009 roundup

December 1, 2009

Some say Monster’s new Power Resume Search is stunning and Monster has opened a new facility in Florence,SC.

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