Locanto
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| legal form | Private company |
| founding | June 2006 |
| Seat | Wiesbaden , Germany |
| Website | www.locanto.de |
Locanto is an international portal for classified ads in the categories of jobs, personals, rentals, buying / selling, services, neighborhoods, real estate, vehicles and animals. Locanto classifieds are available in more than 60 countries worldwide, in over 1,600 cities, in five languages and are considered a competitor of Craigslist .
background
Locanto is operated by the German start-up company Yalwa GmbH based in Wiesbaden . The portal was launched in July 2006 with a classifieds page for New York . A month later, the service was expanded to include the US cities of Boston , Chicago , Los Angeles and San Francisco . As of 2007, Locanto has covered every major city in the US. 1,500 cities in 37 other countries followed in five languages.
In addition to askalo and Yalwa , Locanto is one of three local web applications from the German startup Yalwa GmbH. Klaus-P. Gapp, managing director and founder of the company, previously created and operated OpusForum.org - a classified ad site for the German-speaking market. This was bought by Ebay in 2005 and one year later merged with its own advertising portal Kijiji .
safety
Locanto offers the “Safe Trading” blog , on which users can find detailed information about Internet security.
Range
countries
There are classifieds markets from Locanto in Egypt - Algeria - Argentina - Australia - Bangladesh - Belgium - Bolivia - Brunei - Chile - China - Costa Rica - Germany - Dominican Republic - Ecuador - Ivory Coast - El Salvador - France - Ghana - Great Britain - Guatemala Hong Kong - India - Indonesia - Ireland - Jamaica - Japan - Cameroon - Canada - Qatar - Kenya - Colombia - Congo - Luxembourg - Madagascar - Malaysia - Morocco - Mauritius - Mexico - New Zealand - Netherlands - Nigeria - Austria - Pakistan - Panama - Paraguay - Peru - Philippines - Puerto Rico - Saudi Arabia - Switzerland - Senegal - Singapore - Spain - South Africa - South Korea - South Tyrol - Tanzania - Thailand - Tunisia - Uganda - Uruguay - Vietnam - the United Arab Emirates - the USA (in English and Spanish ) and in Venezuela.
languages
Locanto is offered in Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish.
Mobile version
Since February 2010, Locanto's classifieds markets have also been available to mobile web users. Searching, browsing and posting classified ads are possible in the mobile version.
criticism
In January 2010, some Indian media reported that images of Canarean actress Sanchitha Padukone had been misused in certain Locanto personals. Locanto was referred to as a "porn site".
Web links
swell
- ↑ Hamburg Chamber of Commerce: Nationwide job portals ( Memento of the original from November 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ VentureBeatProfiles.com: Craigslist Competitor (in English) ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Yalwa Business Blog: About Us
- ↑ Medienrauschen.de: Kijiji and opusforum merge ( memento of the original from January 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Blog Locanto Safe Trading
- ↑ PropertyPortalWatsch.com: Locanto adds 10 new countries (in English) ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ PropertyPortalWatsch.com: Suggestions for mobile Internet (in English) ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ BangaloreMirror.com: Porn site misuses the picture of a Canarian star (in English) ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
