Craigslist Wikipedia. Craigslist Inc. Screenshot of the main page on January 2. Type of business. Private company. Type of site. Classifieds, forums. Available in. English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese. Founded. 19. 95 1. Headquarters. San Francisco, California, U. S. 1Area served. FoundersCraig Newmark. Key people. Jim Buckmaster CEOServices. NtgWY/TqCaXD4RCNI/AAAAAAAAAE0/eZj2V0guek4/s1600/Screen%2Bshot%2B2011-10-20%2Bat%2B3.01.41%2BPM.png' alt='The Craigslist Killer Full Movie In English' title='The Craigslist Killer Full Movie In English' />Written, directed and edited by Jeff Seal Shot by Karim Tabbaa Sound mix by Brian Flood Produced by Shaina Feinberg, Rose Surnow, Joe Schiappa Music Cock. The-Craigslist-Killer-film-images-f7ea11da-b860-42da-968e-86f0c1fa232.jpg' alt='The Craigslist Killer Full Movie In English' title='The Craigslist Killer Full Movie In English' />Web communications. Revenue. US 6. 94 million 2. Net income US 5. Employees. Websitewww. craigslist. Alexa rank 1. 10 February 2. Advertising. None. Registration. Optional. Launched. 19. 95 2. Current status. Active. Written in. Perl3Craigslist stylized as craigslist is an American classified advertisements website with sections devoted to jobs, housing, personals, for sale, items wanted, services, community, gigs, rsums, and discussion forums. Craig Newmark began the service in 1. San Francisco Bay Area. The Craigslist Killer Full Movie In English' title='The Craigslist Killer Full Movie In English' />Kansas couple Angela Bauer, 40, and partner Jennifer Schreiner, 34, pictured right placed an ad on Craigslist three years ago for a donor which was answered by. It became a web based service in 1. It started expanding to other U. S. cities in 2. 00. In March 2. 00. 8, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese became the first non English languages Craigslist supported. As of August 9, 2. Craigslist sites. Some Craigslist sites cover large regions instead of individual metropolitan areasfor example, the U. S. states of Delaware and Wyoming, the Colorado Western Slope, the California Gold Country, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan are among the locations with their own Craigslist sites. HistoryeditHaving observed people helping one another in friendly, social, and trusting communal ways on the Internet via the WELL, Mind. Vox and Usenet, and feeling isolated as a relative newcomer to San Francisco, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark decided to create something similar for local events. In early 1. Most of the early postings were submitted by Newmark and were notices of social events of interest to software and Internet developers living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Soon, word of mouth led to rapid growth. The number of subscribers and postings grew rapidly. There was no moderation and Newmark was surprised when people started using the mailing list for non event postings. People trying to get technical positions filled found that the list was a good way to reach people with the skills they were looking for. This led to the addition of a jobs category. User demand for more categories caused the list of categories to grow. The initial technology encountered some limits, so by June 1. Majordomo had been installed and the mailing list Craigslist resumed operations. Community members started asking for a web interface. Newmark registered craigslist. In the fall of 1. List Foundation was introduced and Craigslist started transitioning to the use of this name. In April 1. 99. 9, when Newmark learned of other organizations called List Foundation, the use of this name was dropped. Craigslist incorporated as a private for profit company in 1. Around the time of these events, Newmark realized the site was growing so fast that he could stop working as a software engineer and devote his full attention to running Craigslist. By April 2. 00. 0, there were nine employees working out of Newmarks San Francisco apartment. In January 2. 00. CEO Jim Buckmaster joined the company as lead programmer and CTO. Buckmaster contributed the sites multi city architecture, search engine, discussion forums, flagging system, self posting process, homepage design, personals categories, and best of Craigslist feature. He was promoted to CEO in November 2. The website expanded into nine more U. S. cities in 2. 00. On August 1, 2. 00. Craigslist began charging 2. New York and Los Angeles pages. On the same day, a new section called Gigs was added, where low cost and unpaid jobs can be posted free. OperationseditThe site serves more than 2. United States per Alexa. June 2. 8, 2. 01. United States alone per Compete. January 8, 2. 01. With more than 8. Craigslist is the leading classifieds service in any medium. The site receives more than 2 million new job listings each month, making it one of the top job boards in the world. Craigslist also dominates the U. S. rental housing market, with millions of new listings every month. The 2. 3 largest U. S. cities listed on the Craigslist home page collectively receive more than 3. October 2. 01. 1. Watch Close Encounters Of The Third Kind Putlocker# here. The classified advertisements range from traditional buysell ads and community announcements to personal ads. In 2. 00. 9, Craigslist operated with a staff of 2. Financials and ownershipeditIn December 2. UBS Global Media Conference in New York, Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster told Wall Street analysts that Craigslist had little interest in maximizing profit, and instead preferred to help users find cars, apartments, jobs and dates. Craigslists main source of revenue is paid job ads in select American cities. The company does not formally disclose financial or ownership information. Analysts and commentators have reported varying figures for its annual revenue, ranging from 1. On August 1. 3, 2. Newmark announced on his blog that auction giant e. Bay had purchased a 2. Some fans of Craigslist expressed concern that this development would affect the sites longtime non commercial nature. As of April 2. 01. The company was believed to be owned principally by Newmark, Buckmaster and e. Bay the three board members. Bay owned approximately 2. Newmark is believed to own the largest stake. In April 2. 00. 8, e. Bay announced it was suing Craigslist to safeguard its four year financial investment. Bay claimed that in January 2. Craigslist executives took actions that unfairly diluted e. Bays economic interest by more than 1. Craigslist filed a counter suit in May 2. Craigslist claimed was constituted by e. Bays actions as Craigslist shareholders the company claimed that it had used its minority stake to gain access to confidential information, which it then used as part of its competing service Kijiji. On June 1. 9, 2. 01. Bay Inc. announced that it would divest its stake back to Craigslist for an undisclosed amount, and settle its litigation with the company. The move came shortly before e. Bays planned spin off of Pay. Pal, and an effort to divest other units to focus on its core business. The Swedish luxury marketplace website Jameslist. July 1. 1, 2. 01. Jameslist. com 2. As a consequence, the young company was forced to rename to James. Edition. Content policieseditAs of 2.