Street Fight Daily: Living Social Flush, AOL at Juncture

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.LivingSocial Steers Clear of IPO (WSJ)…SOURCE: AOL Faces Brutal Choice On Patch — Close It Or Double Down (SAI)…TripAdvisor Relaunches Local Picks Facebook App, for Restaurant Tips from Friends and Locals (The Next Web)

Why Mobile Can’t ‘Save’ Local News

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The only thing that saves local news is really good, unique local content and community allegiances that make it clear the news product is more than just a way to make money. The commitment has to be obvious. This is why a handful of mom-and-pop hyperlocal blogs have flourished as lucrative small businesses. And this is why the best growth at Patch is driven by the most committed local editors who weave themselves into the community fabric…

Using Content Management Tools to Unleash Local Media

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Rebelmouse, the creation of Paul Berry, ex-CTO of the Huffington Post, is a publishing platform that curates articles from the tweets, retweets and links from Twitter and Facebook accounts and displays them in the now popular Pinterest-tile format. The new platform validates how easy it is to leverage social media for publishing…

Street Fight Daily: Square Loyalty, LocalResponse Nears Profit

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...

Square Gets Into the Loyalty Game with Digital Punch Cards (GigaOm)…

LocalResponse: Our Ad Network Has 7 Billion Impressions Per Month And Is Almost Profitable (TechCrunch)…

On The Heels Of Its Funding, Yext Gets A New Interface And Review Monitoring (TechCrunch)…

Constant Contact Opens SaveLocal to Public

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Constant Contact has opened its social promotions play SaveLocal to the public after three months in a customer-only beta. The rollout is the next step in what has been a coordinated push by the company to position itself as a full-service marketing service for small merchants…

Factual Adds Monetization Capability With New API

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Factual has added engagement and monetization capabilities to its set of local data tools with the release of a new Monetize API. The API enables developers to snap deals and other engagement tools like restaurant reservations to any business in a developer’s local dataset, and share in the revenues generated from conversions…

7 CMS Platforms for Hyperlocal Publishers

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Although many publishers have adapted general-purpose systems like WordPress and Drupal to meet their needs — and others, like Patch and Sacramento Press, have built their own technology platforms from scratch — new CMS platforms are being developed specifically with the needs of local and regional publishers in mind. Here are seven CMS platforms that publishers can use to run local news websites…

Sailthru Acquires Seamless Receipts, Advances in Personalized Marketing

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About a month after its acquisition of Frame, Sailthru co-founder and CEO Neil Capel announced on the company’s blog yesterday that the email optimization provider has acquired Seamless Receipts. The financial terms of the deal are not yet available…

Street Fight Daily: Facebook Ads, Groupon Investor Exits

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...

Facebook Working on Location-Based Mobile Ad Product (Bloomberg)…

Groupon Shareholder Kinnevik Heads for the Door (GigaOm)…

The Future of News: Mobile, Video, Data – And Crowdsourced (GigaOm)…

Hyperlocal Sites Must Win Customers’ Hearts With Strong Brand Identity

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Hyperlocal advertiser Papa Ads, Inc. launched “iShopStark.com” in 2007 in Canton, Ohio. It offers product reviews, price comparisons, and coupons in the Stark County metro area. In 2010, Gatehouse Media, owner of Copley Ohio Newspapers, launched ShopNStark.com in the same area, offering the same services as iShopStark. Papa Ads sued Copley, claiming that the new site infringes Papa Ads’ brand name and is causing confusion among the public…

PHOTOS: Street Fight Summit West 2012

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Street Fight’s first West Coast conference brought together some of the very top minds in hyperlocal at San Francisco’s Bently Reserve on June 5th. The day-long intensive event took a close look at some of the most important issues affecting hyperlocal content, commerce and technology. We recently posted a gallery of photos from the event featuring some of the more exciting moments from the stage, as well as the networking scene in the back rooms and at the evening cocktail party…

Street Fight Daily: Apple & Google Face Off, Patch Predicts Profit

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.

Apple and Google Go Head to Head Over Mobile Maps (NYT)

Patch’s Webster Predicts Profit in Late 2013 (Net News Check)

Here’s a Sign Merchants are Starting to Really Like Groupon (Yipit Blog)

Local Payments for Local Merchants

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Mobile payments platforms are quickly emerging as a viable solution for small businesses seeking to conduct transactions without paying the high fees typically associated with a traditional merchant terminal…

Pandora Partners With Local Media Companies to Expand Mobile Reach

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“[Mobile advertising] is definitely a significant part of our strategy, a significant part of our DNA,” John Hilton, director of the company’s sales strategy told Street Fight. “So there’s going to be a lot of emphasis and focus on the mobile advertising dollar for us. In terms of revenue generation, we’ve done a significant job, and that’s just going to go up and to the right.”

Transaction Overview: Constant Contact Acquires SinglePlatform

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While a clear strategic fit, Constant Contact made a bold financial move with this acquisition. Valuation paid is clearly based on the expectation of strong revenue growth in 2013 and beyond as well as the strategic value of SinglePlatform’s products and customer and publisher relationships…

Design: Rarely Has a Single Force Dominated the Mobile Ecosystem

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The most successful players are focusing on one thing: How to make products, services, and devices as compelling and delightful as possible – both visually, and experientially. So whether you’re an enterprise company, publisher, developer, marketer, service, vendor, brand/retailer or infrastructure player, design is something you can no longer ignore…

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — LevelUp, INRIX

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at the new version of Foursquare’s app and a round of funding for LevelUp. Google brings street view to the knapsack. Denny’s is giving away a lifetime of Grand Slams. Plus our top funding stories, our resource of the week and special guest Jim Bak, Director of Communications at INRIX…

Street Fight Daily: AOL Fends Off Starboard, ICANN Domains, Seamless

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...

AOL Doubles Down On Content After Surviving Activist Challenge (Forbes)…

Why Newspapers Were Doomed All Along (Harvard Business Review Blog)…

Groupon Is Winning or Losing, Depending on Who You Ask (NBC Chicago Blog)…

Apple Crashes the Hyperlocal Party

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The maps product that Apple showed goes a long ways towards effectively replacing Google Maps. And its just the latest salvo in a developing campaign by both sides to capitalize on the hyperlocal market. Apple Maps, iTunes, Passport and the other developing applications on iOS are a clear path to entering the hyperlocal market in a very smooth, sophisticated and gradual way — the Apple Way…

Can Bloodied Patch Pull Off a Digital ‘Rocky’?

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Patch could compete more effectively if adopted a community-faced news strategy. Instead of building a Ptolemaic news gathering universe in each community centered on one young, inexperienced, overwhelmed reporter-editor, it should set about recruiting regular reporter/contributors who know their communities inside and out…