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Oodle, Inc.

Company Overview

Oodle, Inc. provides online classifieds services. Its site offers used cars, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, and boats, as well as real estate and homes for sale, property for rent, jobs and employment, pets for sale, personals, items for sale, and tickets. The company also offers search, convenient email alerts, and information to consumers to make buying decisions. In addition, it builds and hosts customized online classifieds marketplaces for partners. Oodle, Inc. serves media companies, online communities, and portals. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in San Mateo, California. It has locations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, India, and Ireland.

60 East 3rd Avenue

Suite 410

San Mateo, CA 94401

United States

Founded in 2004

Phone:

650-401-7202

www.oodle.com

Key Executives

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder and Chief Techonolgy Officer
Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing
Senior Vice President
Director of Communications
Compensation as of Fiscal Year 2009.

Key developments for Oodle, Inc.

News Corp. Teams Up with Oodle Inc. to Launch New Classifieds Channel Myspace Canada

News Corp. teams up With Oodle Inc. to launch new classifieds channel MySpace Canada. Powered by Oodle Inc., MySpace Canada Classifieds offers users a safe and social marketplace to buy and sell products and services within their trusted group of friends for free. Through MySpace Canada's social networking framework, users are able to easily share information about what they are looking for with their friends through MySpace bulletins and blogs. Because user profiles are attached to each listing, MySpace users get a better understanding of who they're selling to, trading with or buying from. These features make MySpace Canada Classifieds a safer environment and provide a more efficient way to connect buyers and sellers. By partnering with Oodle, MySpace Canada has reinvented traditional classified services and created a safer and more social marketplace for users to buy, sell or trade items, on a local or national level.

ForWant.com Selects Oodle Classfied Network

ForWant.com announced that it has selected Oodle Inc, to power its classified network. Oodle provides buyers access to more than 40 million listings aggregated from more than 80,000 different sites. The partnership gives ForWant.com a compelling platform for sellers to promote their listings by leveraging the reach of Oodle's extensive network of more than 250 partner sites. Posting ads on ForWant.com is free.

Facebook Chooses Oodle to Power its Marketplace Application

Oodle Inc. announced that it has been chosen to power Marketplace, an application for online classifieds on Facebook. Oodle was chosen because of its track record of innovation with online classifieds and will be developing an enhanced version of Marketplace scheduled for release in first quarter of 2009. Facebook first introduced the Marketplace application in early May 2007 as a way for Facebook users to easily create, share and respond to listings across categories such as 'Furniture' and 'Roommates.' To further expand the functionality and breadth of the application, Facebook selected an outside developer with expertise in social networking and online classifieds. Oodle will develop and power Facebook's Marketplace application, which will be integrated into the site similar to other third-party applications.

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