A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology... Google Said to Consider Buying Waze (Bloomberg)... On-Demand Delivery Startup Postmates Preparing for NYC Launch (TechCrunch)... INFOGRAPHIC: How Location Data Is Being Collected And Transforming The Mobile Industry (Business Insider)...
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Street Fight Daily: Yelp Fires Back, Walmart Banks on Mobile In-Store
A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Yelp Fires Back at Small Business Extortion Claims, Says It’s Not, and ‘Never has Been’, true (TheNextWeb)... Walmart Exec: Mobile Can Revive Personal Touch for Shoppers(CNet)... Square Expands into Asia With Japan Launch (AllThingsD)...
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Street Fight Daily: Phone Firms Sell Data, A Day in Court for Yelp
A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Phone Firms Sell Data on Customers (Wall Street Journal)... Another Day in Court for Yelp (New York Times)... Hyper-Local: Not A Behavioral Disease (Medium)...
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Street Fight Daily: Seamless GrubHub Merge, Wanderful Media Raises $9M
A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... GrubHub, Seamless, and the Importance of the Purchase (Bloomberg Businessweek)... Newspaper Companies Invest Another $9M In Local Deal Startup Wanderful Media (TechCrunch)... What Patch Employees Were Told During the Friday Evening Conference Call (Romenesko)...
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Street Fight Daily: Google Offers Head to Google+, GrubHub and Seamless Merger Rumors
A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Google Offers Heading to Google+ (PCMag)... Grubless? Online Takeout Giants GrubHub And Seamless In Talks To Merge (TechCrunch)... LivingSocial Relying on Events to Make Up for Weaker Daily Deals Business (Washington Post)...
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Street Fight Daily: Mason Moves On, Aruba Buys In-Door GPS Firm Meridian
A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Ex-Groupon CEO Mason Moving to San Francisco to Start New Company (Reuters)... Aruba Buys Meridian Apps, Eyes 'Indoor GPS' Services (ZDNet)... How Google Made Maps Human, Savvy, and Monetizable (Fast Company)...
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Street Fight Daily: Google Unveils New Maps, PayPal Takes Aim at Square
A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Eight Years Later, Google Reinvents Its Maps for a Data Rich Web (GigaOm)... PayPal Takes Aim at Square With Free Mobile Payment Processing (CNet)... Google Announces 3 New Location Services for Android (Mashable)...
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Street Fight Daily: Square Unveils New Hardware, PayPal Offers Cash for Registers
A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Square Unveils Hardware for iPad Registers (New York Times)... PayPal’s Cash For Registers Tries To Outdo Square And Groupon With Its Own Bid To Rule The Register (TechCrunch)... Facebook, Waze at Odds Over Liquidation (Business Insider)...
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Street Fight Daily: Groupon Launches POS, Visa Updates Rewards
A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Groupon Squares Up To Rivals With Groupon POS, An iPad App And Dashboard For On-Site, Mobile Payments (TechCrunch)... Visa Updates Offers Rewards Scheme With Point-of-Sale Discounts and Personalized Cardholder Alerts (TheNextWeb)... Bringing Social-Network Superpowers to the Real World (Wired)...
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Street Fight Daily: Hyperlocal Targeting Faces Scrutiny, New CEO at CityGrid
A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... ‘Hyperlocal’ Consumer Targeting Faces Scrutiny; Senator Questions Euclid (Wall Street Journal)... Ron LaPierre CEO of CityGrid Media (Screenwerk)... Yahoo Acquires Location-based Mobile Gaming Company Loki Studios (TheNextWeb)...
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Join top execs from Yelp, Square, Factual, Yext, Qualcomm, Clear Channel and more on June 4th. Register now!How Local Search Is Getting Mobile and Social
Facebook is now the #2 mobile app for local search, behind Google Maps, notes MomentFeed CEO Rob Reed. Are people really using the social media platform to find small businesses — and what does that say about the future of local search?What Hyperlocal Acquirers Are Looking For
2013 could see a handful of established companies look to mergers and acquisitions in order to jump-start their existing hyperlocal strategies — or to help them build new initiatives altogether. Here’s a quick look at four major players who may currently be in the hunt for locally focused acquisitions and what each might be looking for.© 2013 Street Fight.
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