Under pressure from several state attorneys general, online classifieds company Craigslist shut down its “adult services” category—estimated to have made up as much as one-third of the company’s revenue—in the U.S. several months ago. It didn’t go quietly—the company put a big black “censored” bar up where the adult category…

EBay is claiming victory in its long-standing litigation with Craigslist, after a court reinstated its 28.4 percent stake in the classifieds site. EBay had sued Craigslist in April 2008, saying the classifieds site had “unfairly” diluted its ownership stake after eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) debuted its own competing classifieds site in…

With the EBay-Craigslist lawsuit finally set to head to trial, the trial has suddenly been taken off the docket, and Classified Intelligence, which reported the development in a clients-only report, thinks it could signal that a settlement is coming in the case. The trial had been scheduled to start on…

Craigslist is growing. The online classifieds site has added 140 new cities to its roster, bulking up its coverage by 25 percent, per the NYT. New U.S. locations include small and midsize cities and counties like Oneonta, N.Y.; Craigslist also added over 50 international cities, including Shenzen, China (with a…

Oodle continues to chip away at Craigslist’s domination of the online classifieds market by partnering with much larger sites like *AOL* and powering their listings—but with a new Twitter integration, the startup is making the battle about more than just scale—it’s trying to “make classifieds more social,” according to CEO…

Craigslist began in 1995 when founder Craig Newmark started e-mailing friends and colleagues about events in the San Francisco area and through the years has grown into a national business with classified ads in nearly every American city. The site currently has over 50 million unique monthly visitors, according to…

Hard-hit consumers looking to raise quick cash by selling their belongings are driving big increases in traffic to classified-ad sites, according to Hitwise. The firm reports that traffic to the sites jumped 84 percent in February, compared to a year ago. Most of the new traffic is going to Craigslist,…

Craigslist is working on long overdue step that will help curb some of the ads posted by prostitutes and other adult workers, caving into demands by attorneys general from 40 states to regulate its message board from illegal activity. The AGs of 40 states and Craigslist announced a joint settlement…