{"id":207,"date":"2009-12-12T04:10:07","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T11:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2009-12-12T04:10:07","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T11:10:07","slug":"the-importance-of-job-listings-to-craigslist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/the-importance-of-job-listings-to-craigslist\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of job listings to Craigslist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The way the contracts were structured between eBay and Craigslist shows just how important job listings were at the time for Craigslist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2009\/12\/11\/craigslist-on-ebay-untrustworthy-ebay-on-craigslist-amateurish\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Craigslist on eBay: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Untrustworthy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; eBay on Craigslist: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Amateurish\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c GigaOM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Craig Newmark testified that then-eBay CEO Meg Whitman assured him that eBay would not use the confidential information about Craigslist it had access to as a shareholder to compete with the site, <strong>however the contract the two companies signed in August 2004 for 28 percent of the company at a price of $32 million did allow eBay to compete, with the exception that it would lose shareholder rights if it offered online jobs postings in the U.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The way the contracts were structured between eBay and Craigslist shows just how important job listings were at the time for Craigslist. Craigslist on eBay: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Untrustworthy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d; eBay on Craigslist: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Amateurish\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u201c GigaOM. Craig Newmark testified that then-eBay CEO Meg Whitman assured him that eBay would not use the confidential information about Craigslist it had access &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/the-importance-of-job-listings-to-craigslist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The importance of job listings to Craigslist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}