Andy Ellwood, the company's senior director of business development, will be appearing on a panel at Street Fight Summit West in a couple of weeks in San Francisco to talk about how the future of mapping tech plays into hyperlocal marketing. Street Fight caught up with him recently to talk about how Waze makes money, the vitality of context, and fighting off Google...

"I think we're in a place where the larger media organizations are in the second cycle of trying to rethink hyperlocal, and in the meantime there have been some smaller innovators, often ex-journalists themselves, who are starting to develop out of it," says the Bourneville Village publisher. "The key still remains having people in place to sell ads."

"I think what would surprise most people is that the 'daily deal' industry is actually stable and increasing," Jim Moran told Street Fight. "By this point the vast majority of revenue is driven by repeat customers, both on the consumer and the merchant size. One time users have moved on over a year ago, and the market will now grow as offer quality and user experience continues to improve. ... The only thing surprising to me about the daily deal industry is that we still haven't been able to agree on a better name for it."

The service management and marketing platform for SMBs has gotten a big financial boost. Booker announced today that it has raised $27.5 million in a Series B round led by Bain Capital, which it will use to continue building out its small business scheduling and marketing offerings.

"We're building toward a completely personalized experience, like Netflix," said Dave Thomsen, the company's EVP of product design. "When you're logged in, you get a unique circular that's customized for you based on what we know about you." So the product will understand what you have looked for in the past and show deals you might be interested in now...

When Layar launched in 2010, a lot of excitement about the Dutch company stemmed from its augmented reality browser. But while the concept was very cool to local-focused techies, it didn't quite catch on with regular users the way that it needed to...

Paul Davison's location-based startup Highlight has had a strange trajectory. It was the darling of South by Southwest in 2012, then soon lost its sheen for a variety of reasons, prompting a series of "What Happened to Highlight?" posts around the time of this year's Austin event. Street Fight recently caught up with Davison to talk about retrenching, the definition of fun, and his very real belief that using Highlight can change the world around us.

In less than a year, social discovery app Banjo has jumped from fewer than a million users to over four million. The mobile service allows users to discover real-time data across social networks and learn more about places, and it recently launched a tablet app. Street Fight caught up with Banjo founder and CEO Damien Patton to chat about the future of mobile, making money, and the value of data...

The future of mobile coupons is nearly here and it looks bright, according to a recent study conducted by RadiumOne, which found that nearly half of women ages 35 to 54 would like to receive mobile coupons via SMS. Meanwhile, other methods of coupon delivery are rising in popularity as well...

In the fast-churning world of small-business-focused digital start-ups, Yodle's nearly eight years in the business already make it a bit of a veteran player. Street Fight recently caught up with the company's CEO, Court Cunningham, to talk about the future of mobile advertising and why small business websites are still so important as marketing channels...