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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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 .

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