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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LIVEDEAL.COM AND SIMPLYHIRED.COM FORM RELATIONSHIP;
FIVE MILLION SIMPLYHIRED JOB LISTINGS TO APPEAR ON LIVEDEAL.COM
Now, Even More Employers and Job Seekers Across the U.S. Can Access
SimplyHired Content Through LiveDeal’s Leading Local Online Classifieds Platform
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 3, 2006 – LiveDeal.com, (www.livedeal.com), one of the nation’s leading free local online classifieds sites, announced today it has formed a relationship with SimplyHired, the world’s largest search engine for jobs. With this relationship, all five million job listings on SimplyHired.com will be available on the LiveDeal site. Now, even more employers and job seekers across the U.S. can access the millions of job listings through LiveDeal’s leading local online classifieds platform. Employers and job seekers can also post listings independently on LiveDeal.com. In the month of August, more than 1.4 million unique visitors went to LiveDeal.com, seeking everything from jobs to pets to vehicles, furniture and appliances.
According to comScore Media Metrix, online classifieds is one of the Internet’s fastest growing categories, with LiveDeal.com ranking among the category leaders. While the online classifieds category as a whole grew at 47 percent over the past year, LiveDeal’s growth in that same period was 104 percent.
“The Internet provides the ultimate in convenience, letting employers and job seekers search for what they want from the comfort of their home or office,” said Rajesh Navar, founder and CEO of LiveDeal. “Our new relationship with SimplyHired gives consumers access to the best and broadest inventory of jobs on the market today via LiveDeal’s sophisticated online classifieds platform, so they can connect locally. This relationship further strengthens LiveDeal’s position as a best-of-breed, cross-vertical local online marketplace.” |
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LiveDeal is one of the leaders in the free local online classifieds market with more than $5 billion worth of goods listed for sale, in every city and zip code across the U.S. Buyers and sellers come together through the vast LiveDeal.com marketplace, which is ideal for trading items you want to see or try before you buy, such as automobiles, furniture, appliances, real estate and more. LiveDeal is also the perfect place for sellers seeking to place pets in loving homes and for buyers to find the pet of their dreams. LiveDeal has also joined forces with Pets 911 to increase pet adoptions from shelters. LiveDeal partners with online and offline media to quickly and cost effectively power their classifieds via its dynamic LiveDeal classifieds platform. LiveDeal was founded in 2003 by Rajesh Navar, an original member of eBay’s engineering team, with executives from other pioneering Internet companies. As part of its global expansion, LiveDeal recently launched LiveDeal Canada (livedeal.ca) in partnership with Torstar Corporation and Gesca Ltd. For more information about LiveDeal, see www.livedeal.com.
About Simply Hired, Inc.
With more than 5 million job listings and counting, Simply Hired (www.SimplyHired.com) is the world's largest search engine for jobs. We search thousands of sources, including large and small job boards, newspaper and classified listings, and company websites. Our mission is to help people find their ideal jobs in the simplest way possible. Simply Hired has been lauded as one of the “50 Coolest Websites 2005” by Time Magazine, declared “Best of the Web” by BusinessWeek and celebrated as one of “50 Best New Websites” by PC World. Simply Hired has raised $17.7M in funding from News Corporation’s Fox Interactive Media, Foundation Capital, Garage Technology Ventures and individual investors. The company is privately held and is based in Mountain View, California.
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