A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Google Maps To Get A Major Design Overhaul (SearchEngineLand)... PlaceIQ Raises $6.75 Million To Serve You Ads Based On Your Location (PlaceIQ)... Yelp and the Wisdom of "The Lonely Crowd" (The New Yorker)...

A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Rocket Internet-Backed FoodPanda Raises $20M+ As It Prepares For The Next Course In Its Food Delivery Ambitions (TechCrunch)... TripAdvisor’s plan to get another 100 million reviews: Have hotels do the work (Skift)... Local Ad Network Sees Shift To Tighter Mobile Targeting (MediaPost)...

A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Square Sets Its Sights on Check-ins: 'We Can Do Something Better' (Verge)... Report: Mobile Traffic To Local Sites Growing Faster Than To Total Internet, Now At 27 Percent (SearchEngineLand)... Study: Daily Deals Sites are Bleeding Each Other Dry (PandoDaily)...

A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Facebook to Add Yext’s Business Data as It Touts Search Feature (Bloomberg Businessweek)... Dex, SuperMedia Close Merger and Emerge from Chapter 11 As Dex Media (Screenwerk)... Google Calls Reports that Google Now for iOS Srains Batteries “Incorrect” (TheNextWeb)...

A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Twitter Updates Its Apps with New Trends Locations (TheNextWeb)... Square Hires An Exec From PayPal To Form Payments Partnerships With Retailers (TechCrunch)... Brownstoner Founder Jonathan Butler’s Venture-ing into Queens (Daily News)...

A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Discover Pushes PayPal's In-Store Service as First Data Holds Out (Wall Street Journal)... Twitter Opens Up Self-Serve Advertising Platform to All Businesses (GigaOm)... Won’t You Be in My Nextdoor Network? (AllThingsD)...

A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Leaked Doc Shows Foursquare's Big Plans for Your Check-in Data (CNet)... Google Brings Virtual Assistant to iOS 'Now' (Internet2Go)... Jack Dorsey Talks Square and Wearable Devices (New York Times)...

A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Square Beefs Up Its Register for Restaurants (AllThingsD)... LivingSocial Hack Exposes Data for 50 Million Customers (New York Times)... Life360, A Family Networking App With More Users Than Foursquare, Is Now Headed For Cars, Smart Home Systems (TechCrunch)...

A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Twitter Testing New Local Discovery Features — And It’s About Time (AllThingsD)... Microsoft Quietly Shuts Down Bing Deals, Launches Bing Offers As A Replacement (TechCrunch)... Belly Dance: Can Lightbank and Chicago’s Hot New Company Avoid Groupon’s Missteps? (PandoDaily)...

A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Angie’s List is Killing It: Revenue, Members, Growth — and Stock Price — All Up...  (VentureBeat)... Tippr Is Acquired by nCrowd in Further Consolidation of the Online Deals Space (AllThingsD)... Groupon Pits Itself Against Location-based Services with App Update (Mobile Commerce Daily)...