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21 hrs ago | Vancouver Television

Teens selling sex on Craigslist, police say

The popular online classified service Craigslist is a clearing house for all kinds of products from tools to tickets.

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Related Topix: Canada, Family, Teenagers, World News

Fri Jul 03, 2009

Toronto Sun

Major drug bust in Durham

More than $3-million worth of marijuana, cocaine and Ecstasy is off the streets after a drug investigation east of Toronto, police announced today.

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Related Topix: Drugs

CFRA

Schoolgirls Selling Sex on Craigslist: Police

Vancouver police are warning parents about a disturbing trend. They say there are more and more teenagers selling themselves for sex through the online classified advertising site Craigslist.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News

Thu Jul 02, 2009

The Technology Liberation Front

False Dichotomies and the Death of Print

My friend Megan McArdle has a sharp post on the causes of the newspaper's imminent demise: Journalism is not being brought low by excess supply of content; it's being steadily eroded by insufficient demand for advertising pages.

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

The Local Onliner

Great Idea for IAC's New Sidewalk.com? Enter Contest

Citysearch Publishing head Kara Nortman reminded us today that Citysearch and IAC are set to do great things with the Sidewalk.com brand that it acquired from Microsoft in 2000.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet

The Kelsey Group

Quantcast Publishes 'Top 10' Online Directories

Figuring out who is on top of the heap in the online directory business is a complex task: on one hand, a "directory" category is kind of an oxymoron, given that so much of what is quantified is based on search engine optimization.

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Related Topix: Startups, Quantcast, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Internet, Science / Technology

TechCrunch

MojoPages Raises $5 Million For White Label Local Business Search Engine

Do not miss out, $1,495 tickets to TechCrunch50 through midnight PST tonight. MojoPages, a local listings search engine, has raised $5 million in Series A funding led by Austin Ventures.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet, Venture Capital, Emerging Technology

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Paid Content

Sidewalk Being Revived by Citysearch, This Time As a Mobile Web App

Sidewalk.com is being revived again, this time as a mobile and Web app. Citysearch, part of IAC , has owned the domain for a while now, ever since Microsoft sold its stake in 1999 to then Ticketmaster-Citysearch, but the domain has been redirecting to Citysearch.com homepage for a while now.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Startups, Software

Globe and Mail

The rise of online prostitution

Anupreet Sandhu Bhamra Vancouver - Last updated on Monday, Jun. 29, 2009 10:25PM EDT T he pimps start off as boyfriends who buy clothes and jewellery for unsuspecting high-school girls as young as 16.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News

Mon Jun 29, 2009

TeleRead

Bed (sex-wanted ads) and embed (Reutersa blog items): Love-seekers to use e-book ads someday?

Will this apply to classified ads in e-books someday? Simon Owens of the the Bloggasm blog writes in: a oeI remember reading your post the other day mentioning that Craigslist has closed down its adult services ad section.

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Financial News & Daily Record

Crime and Craigslist the topics at NEFBAThe Internet allows news to...

The Internet allows news to travel fast and that speed and availability is causing problems for members of the Northeast Florida Builders Association and possible customers of their services.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Jacksonville, FL, Jacksonville Metro

KIVI

Garden City Police Use Craigslist to Make Arrest

Garden City Police arrest a Utah woman accused of running an illegal massage business in a Treasure Valley hotel.

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

Vancouver Sun

North Vancouver: RCMP warn of sexual exploitation

Police are sounding the alarm this week over an apparent rise in participation in the sex trade among North Vancouver teens, many of whom are advertising on Craigslist.

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Related Topix: Canada, World News, Youth, Alternative

ZDNet Blogs

Disruptive technologies disrupt - goodbye newspaper companies

Last week my Saturday Post was about how Internet based technologies have been used to create applications and services that devalue existing business models.

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MLive.com

A Muskegon Community College student has pleaded guilty to receiving...

A 19-year-old Muskegon Community College student has pleaded guilty as charged to concealing expensive computer projectors stolen from the college.

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Related Topix: Muskegon, MI, Muskegon County, MI

Sat Jun 27, 2009

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

From the region

Marlboro Craigslist '420 help' ad leads to pot bust QUINCY - A Marlboro man has been arrested after he allegedly placed an advertisement on Craigslist selling marijuana.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Quincy, MA, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Worcester, MA

Cape Cod Times

Within minutes of Jackson's death Thursday, the value of Michael Jackson collectibles spiked.

Deb Elliott is saddened by Michael Jackson's sudden death, but she's also a little wealthier because of it.

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Related Topix: Black Entertainment, Pop/Rock, Michael Jackson, Volant, PA, eBay, Startups, Internet, Science / Technology

Charlotte.com

Man charged in motel rape

Police say a man impersonating a police officer raped and robbed a woman he met on Craigslist at a University City motel.

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Related Topix: Violent Crime, Charlotte, NC, Mecklenburg County, NC

Fri Jun 26, 2009

Customer Interaction Solutions

All for Good - New Platform Powers Obama Administration's Service...

As the leaders from the Obama Administration fan out across the country today to kick off United We Serve, a national community service initiative, leaders from the technology community and nonprofit sector have come together to launch All for Good .

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Related Topix: Non-Profit, Startups, YouTube, Social Software, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

CBS News

Accused Craigslist Killer Pleads Not Guilty

Former Boston University medical student Philip Markoff, center, stands with his attorney during his arraignment Monday, June 22, 2009, in Boston.

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Related Topix: Boston University, Violent Crime

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