The European Commission says 2011 progress against its digital agenda ambitions has been “mixed”.

Just over a month after Devin Wenig was ousted as CEO of Reuters’ beleaguered Markets division, eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has brought him as president of its global Marketplaces unit, which in addition to the flagship auction site, includes the classifieds business and StubHub.

The Washington Post’s jobs’ site was hacked last week, the company told users in an e-mail note sent last night (via Romenesko). While the paper says that no passwords were stolen, a third party was able to retrieve IDs and e-mail addresses.

In the automotive space, the responsibility for advertising is shifting from car makers to car dealers, and that means significant boost for local media, especially online, according to a report looking at the auto category from Borrell Associates. And even though print classified dollars in the auto category continue to…

For the first time in the internet’s history, the hottest thing online today is local. Through daily coupon deals, place reviews and location sharing, local services is where it’s at. That should finally mean boom-time for local newspapers, long out in the wilderness during an online age whose abundance had…

Oodle, a company that’s long been trying to challenge Craigslist in the online classifieds space, is hoping to better organize its social media functions with the acquisition of Grouply. Terms weren’t disclosed. By using Grouply, a tool that lets users customize their social networking discussions, plans to offer more streamline…

Costs will be up a slight 1 or 2 percent for the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) in Q3 as it prepares to launch its metered paywall for the flagship newspaper’s website early next year, said CEO Janet Robinson, speaking at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference. The company also…

The relatively positive jobs report last week could mean that recruitment sites return to healthier ad revenues. In preparation of a somewhat healthier employment ad market, Zapoint, a company that bills itself as a “career and talent management platform,” has acquired social recruiter Jobster, Techcrunch reported. Terms weren’t disclosed.

Ebay is trying—again—to challenge Craigslist in the U.S. classifieds market with a relaunch of its Kijiji classifieds site. The company is renaming the site eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) Classifieds—a move which it says provides “a familiar and trusted brand name” to buyers. And it’s emphasizing several attributes that position the free…

Atex, which provides software systems to media firms, has purchased a majority stake in classifieds site Kaango. Atex is buying the stake from MediaNews and Hearst Corp., which paid $20 million for 80 percent of Kaango in November 2007. Both companies will retain a minority stake in Kaango, which powers…

Job hunting community site KODA has received a $1.5 million add-on to its $3 million private angel funding from last summer. The company, which has offices in San Francisco and New Orleans, will use the funds for general expansion. With unemployment hovering around 10 percent, this would seem to be…

Considering that unemployment is still up double digits and the unemployment classifieds ad revenue continues to plummet, it’s not all that ironic to learn that even recruitment site Monster Worldwide is laying off 200 staffers. The cuts represent about 3.5 of Monster’s global workforce, which is now roughly 5,600. The…

The combination of HotJobs’ network of more than 600 daily and weekly newspapers with Monster’s local news alliances should produce benefits for members of the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium, the company says. The $225 million merger, assuming it passes regulatory muster, will give Monster and HotJobs a collective reach…

Craigslist CEO Craig Newmark (pictured, left) took the stand in the company’s court battle with eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) on Friday to deny that he ever looked at the auction site’s online classifieds unit, Kijiji, Reuters reported. Newmark sought to blunt charges that he had access to information about eBay’s classifieds…

With the bitter housing market making business tough for real estate agents, Century 21 Canada has filed a lawsuit against a new home sales search engine owned by Canadian cable and telecom giant Rogers Communications, the Financial Post reports. The site in question, Zoocasa, was launched by Rogers about a…

This is a tough time for jobs sites. And, for that matter, the economy has constrained advertisers from spending on the health content market. So with that in mind, last fall, Monster.com founder and former CEO Jeff Taylor created a spinoff from his healthy living site Eons.com aimed at Baby…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is facing a setback in its plans to build market share and revenue in Asia: Alibaba Group, which runs Yahoo China and is 39 percent-owned by Yahoo, is separating classified listings business Koubei.com from Yahoo China and adding it to its own retail site Taobao.com, as WSJ.com…

The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies. Poster: Steve Yelvington Position: Digital strategist, Morris Communications Blog name: Yelvington.com Backstory: Yelvington has an editorial background—he worked as the executive editor of network content at…

For websites still joining ad alliances like the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium and quadrantONE, the appeal is in the targeting and ad assistance—not the job listings. For the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium, HotJobs was initially a main selling point, but with unemployment currently at 9.1 percent, job ads aren’t so…