Street Fight Daily: Instagram Growing Rapidly, Gannett Earnings Suggest Bleak Outlook for Newspapers

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Gannett Earnings Forecast a Bleak 2017 for Newspaper Companies… Instagram is Growing Faster Than Ever and Now Has 700 Million Users… Waymo Is Hitting Uber Where It Hurts…

Street Fight Daily: Amazon’s Shipping Ambitions, Search Engines Remain Crucial to Local Discovery

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Amazon’s Plan to Dominate the Shipping Industry Is Taking Shape… Most Internet Users Prefer Search Engines to Find Local Products… Publishers Say Facebook Can Save Instant Articles with Better Data, Subscription Tools…

Street Fight Daily: Uber Tracked Devices After App Was Deleted, Amazon Launches ‘Subscribe with Amazon’

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber’s CEO Plays with Fire… Amazon Launches ‘Subscribe with Amazon,’ a Marketplace for Digital Subscriptions… Loyalty Programs: The Best Way to Connect Users is Every Way…

Raise Report: Getaround, Marble, Qualtrics Secure New Funding

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Every two weeks, we round up some of the biggest fundraises taking place in hyperlocal marketing, commerce, and tech. This week’s edition includes funding for otonomo, Virtualitics, Factom, and Reltio.

Street Fight Daily: Google Boosts Ads with Machine Learning, Gannett Acquires SweetIQ

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google Leans on Machine Learning and Scale for Smarter Display Ads… Amazon’s Alexa Voice Tech is Now Available to Build Chatbots… Twitter is Testing a New Way to Show You News Articles…

Street Fight Daily: Marketers Eye Apple’s Snap Clone, Retail and VR

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Marketers Have Begun Eyeing Clips, Apple’s New Camera App… The Realities of Virtual Reality and Retail… Facebook Messenger Bots Work in Groups Now — Just Don’t Expect Them to Chat…

Street Fight Daily: Amazon Patents On-Demand Manufacturing Warehouses, Facebook’s Big F8 Reveals

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Amazon Awarded Patent for On-Demand Clothing Manufacturing Warehouse… Everything Facebook Announced at F8 2017… Malls Deploy Technology to Lure — and Keep — Shoppers…

Street Fight Daily: Facebook at 10, Spotify Expands ‘Branded Moments’

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Marketers Still Struggle with Measurement, Attribution… Brands Can Now Target Spotify Playlists Ads Based on the Time of Day… Uber Confirms Ford Veteran Marakby is Leaving After One Year…

Street Fight Daily: Uber Opens Up On Finances, Walmart In Talks to Buy Bonobos

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber, Lifting Financial Veil, Says Sales Growth is Outpacing Losses… Walmart is in Advanced Talks to Acquire Online Men’s Retailer Bonobos… From ‘Zombie Malls’ to Bonobos: America’s Retail Transformation…

Street Fight Daily: Google Uses Image Search for Retail, Instagram’s Snap Clone Surpasses Snap in Users

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google is Trying to Turn Image Search into a Shopping Tool… Instagram’s Snapchat Clone is Now More Popular than Snapchat… The Weather Company Opens Its Data Trove to Marketers on Outside Platforms…

Street Fight Daily: Yext Set to Raise $115.5M in Today’s IPO, Snap Offers Brick-and-Mortar Attribution

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Yext is Set to Raise $115.5 Million in IPO After Final Pricing… Snap Advertisers Can Now See if Their Ads Increase Foot Traffic… Will it Blend? Oath Will Combine Disparate AOL-Yahoo Ad Tech Assets…

Street Fight Daily: Walmart Leverages Brick-and-Mortar to Win Online, Local Search Ranking Factors Rundown

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Walmart to Discount Some Online Orders When Picked Up At the Store… Just Released: 2017 Local Searching Ranking Factors Survey Results… Uber’s Head of Communications, Rachel Whetstone, is Leaving…

Street Fight Daily: Weather Channel Partners with Lyft, Alphabet Seeks Public Legal Fight with Uber

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… The Weather Channel Lets You Request a Lyft When Bad Weather Strikes… Alphabet Wants Its Lawsuit Against Uber to Play Out Publicly… Twitter is Expanding Its Video Measurement Partnerships to Help Marketers Gauge Ad Performance

Street Fight Daily: How Amazon Shipping Impacts Small Retailers, Facebook Updates Instant Articles

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Amazon’s Free Shipping Pushes Small Retailers, Delivery Firms to Compete… Facebook Updates Instant Articles, Encourages Email Sign-Ups… Native Ad Spend Increased 600% in 3 Years, But Early Adopters Are Bailing…

Raise Report: New Funding for SOCi, ActionIQ, Chute, Looker

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Every two weeks, we round up some of the biggest fundraises taking place in hyperlocal marketing, commerce, and tech. This week’s edition includes funding for Bus.com, JoyRun, Picnic, and Snowflake.

Street Fight Daily: Lyft Raises $500 Million, Facebook’s M Suggests Local Services in Messenger

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber Rival Lyft Raises $500 Million in Funding… The Public Debut of Facebook’s M is a Step Toward a Do-It-All AI Assistant… It’s Time for Google and Facebook to Freak Out About Amazon…

Street Fight Daily: Facebook Challenges Slack, Deliveroo Launches Platform for Delivery-Only Kitchens

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Facebook Looks to Seize Control of the Workplace with Free Offering, Workplace Standard… Deliveroo Launches Platform for Restaurants to Open Delivery-Only Kitchens… Audience Measurement Struggles to Keep Up with Changing Viewing Behavior…

Street Fight Daily: Big Retailers Support Mobile Payments, Snap Ads Struggle to Grab User Attention

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Amazon, Dunkin’ Donuts, Starbucks Drive Mobile Payment Behaviors… How Do Users Like Snapchat Ads?… AOL’s CEO Explains that Oath is About B2B Branding…

Street Fight Daily: Twitter Adds Location Sharing Tools for Businesses, AOL and Yahoo Become Oath

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Twitter Adds Location Sharing for Businesses Offering Customer Support via DMs… AOL and Yahoo Will Become Oath Following Verizon Deal… Consumer Adoption of Voice Assistants Doubled in Q1: Here’s Why…

Street Fight Daily: Snap Becoming a Search Engine, Google’s Data Wars Come Down to Location

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Snapchat is Becoming a Search Engine… For Google’s Data Wars, It All Comes Down to Location… How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons…