Street Fight Daily: 01.19.12

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...

Foursquare Adds Restaurant Menus, What About Food Check Ins? (TechCrunch)…

GoLocal24: Positioning Hyperlocal at the Top of The News Cycle (Local Onliner)…

Everyblock Introduces Hyperlocal Event Listings (Everyblock Blog)…

Street Fight Daily: 01.17.12

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Google Launching Goofy Game to Promote Location Products in Google+ (ReadWriteWeb)…

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Defends His Decisions on ’60 Minutes’ (AllThingsD)…

How Well Your Deal Sells is Inversely Proportional to Its Amount of Fine Print (Zuupy)…

Street Fight Daily: 01.13.12

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Urban Airship To Shutter SimpleGeo Services In March, With Factual Picking Up The Slack (TechCrunch)…

Rue La La Operator Lays Off 65 Workers, Plans to Shutter SmartBargains (Boston Globe)…

Why Foursquare Won’t Share Location Data With Google (FastCompany)…

Street Fight Daily: 01.12.12

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Appearing on 60 Minutes, Groupon’s Mason Says Being Founder Is an Edge (CBS News)…

Gilt Groupe CEO: Restructuring Rumors Overblown, IPO Still on Track (AllThingsD)…

Skyhook Brings Location-Based Services To the Kindle Fire (ReadWriteWeb)…

Geo-Location App Urgnt.ly Connects You With Nearby Service Providers

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The app, which launched this week in beta, finds qualified service workers “now and near,” connecting people in need with immediately available help. Urgnt.ly’s service providers provide not only provide their current location, they also indicate whether they are “checked in,” meaning that they are currently available to work…

Street Fight Daily: 01.11.12

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Will Groupon’s Deal With Deutsche Telekom Be A Winning Template For Growth? (PaidContent)…

Rumor: Layoffs and Restructuring at Gilt Groupe as New Verticals Fail to Deliver Growth (BetaBeat)…

Will Patch’s Fate Foretell the Future of Local Online News? Hardly (Knight Digital Media Center)…

Patch Triples Traffic Year-Over-Year, Claims Growth Across Network ‘Consistent’

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According to ComScore data, the company became the fourth-largest network of local sites in December, trailing only Yelp, CityGrid and Yahoo! Local. Patch also reports that its traffic grew 5% in December, to total of 9.9 million UVs versus 9.5 million UVs in November…

Street Fight Daily: 01.10.12

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Local Services Marketplace Thumbtack Raises $4.5 Million (TechCrunch)…

Patch Dispatches Little Green Truck to Primary States (Capital New York)…

TaskRabbit Acquires Service Provider Directory SkillSlate (TechCrunch)…

Street Fight Daily: 01.09.12

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Microsoft Finally Dumps Deal Provider Now Owned by Google (AllThingsD)…

Groupon’s New Year’s Resolution? To Make Money on Yours! (AllThingsD)…

Politicians’ Spending on Digital Ads Skyrockets (Mashable)…

Street Fight Daily: 01.06.12

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Armstrong: ‘Really Large Amount’ of Patches to Be Profitable by End of 2013 (Dow Jones Newswires)…

GoLocal24 Expands Into Massachusetts, Hires Veteran Newscaster (Boston Globe)…

Groupon Still Chasing $25 Billion Mirage (Forbes)…

Street Fight Daily: 01.05.12

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Groupon Merchant Center Now Shows If Customers Love or Hate Your Deals (TechCrunch)…

Groupon’s Drop Below IPO Price Reflects Daily-Deal Risks (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)…

PayPal: Mobile Payments and Location-based Offers Go Hand-in-Hand (GigaOm)…

Street Fight Daily: 01.04.12

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No Startup Is Better Than Foursquare With New Products (PaidContent)…

Groupon Grows 6% in November Despite Thanksgiving Dropoff (Yipit)…

Furious Merchant: ‘Groupon And Living Social Are Doomed’ (Business Insider)…

Street Fight Daily: 01.03.12

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AOL’s Armstrong Touts Patch Growth in Year-End Company Memo (Capital New York)…

Uninsured Turn to Daily Deal Sites for Health Care (Associated Press)…

Real Estate Agents Look Beyond the Check-in (Inman)…

Lucky Ant Launches, Extending Kickstarter-style Crowdfunding to Local Merchants

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The hyperlocal funding platform, launched earlier today, gives small businesses a way to raise money from the communities around them for specific improvement projects — while simultaneously forging deeper bonds with customers and promoting loyalty…

Street Fight Daily: 01.02.12

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Ex-AOL Salesman: Here’s How To Save Patch (Business Insider)…

Foursquare’s Claim to Fame, the Check-in, Could Become Its Downfall (VentureBeat)…

SEC Pressed Groupon on Accounting (New York Times)…

Street Fight Daily: 12.23.11

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Vicks Uses Location Data to Micro-target Ads in Regions With High Incidence of Flu (New York Times)…

Daily Deals 2.0: Why Media Companies Will Win (Forbes)…

Facebook Launches Suggested Events Feature Based On Checkins (TechCrunch)…

Street Fight Daily: 12.22.11

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DealFind Launches Its Version Of Groupon Now: ‘Everyday Deals’ (TechCrunch)…
AOL Shareholder: Patch Will Lose ‘As Much As $150M in 2011’ (Business Insider)…
The Power of Foursquare (TechCrunch)…

U.K. Hyperlocal Ad Platform Rvolve Comes Out of Beta

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The new hyperlocal advertising service, based in Birmingham, U.K., hopes that its system can bridge the gap for hyperlocal publishers and local merchants, delivering micro-targeted ad placements through an easy-to-use self-serve platform…

Yellow Pages Tie-Ups Help UGC Reviews Site Tupalo Reach Merchants

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Street Fight caught up recently with Mike Borras, the company’s co-founder, who told us about what sets Tupalo’s model apart, and about some of the challenges that location-based startups face in establishing relationships with local merchants.

Street Fight Daily: 12.21.11

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Hyperlocal Industry Set for Hyper-speed Changes, More Experiments (UNY Startups)…

2012 Will See Local TV Stations Expand Digital Footprint (Nieman Lab)…

9 Daily Deal Acquisitions in 2011 — Good for Some Not for Others (Daily Deal Media)…