Openings and New Hires at OpenTable, Unacast, Foursquare

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Every two weeks, Geoff Michener covers some of the latest job changes taking place in this dynamic industry. This week’s edition includes moves and new openings at Weather Company, Dropsource, Brandify and Tronc.

Street Fight Daily: Twitter Launches Location Feeds, Are Ride-Share Drivers Independent Contractors?

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Twitter Launches Tags to Location Feeds with Foursquare… Lyft’s $27 Million Deal to Make Drivers Independent Contractors Gets Closer To Approval… 6 Tools SMBs Can Use to Identify Dissatisfied Customers …

Street Fight Daily: Uber and Foursquare Join Forces, Twitter Disbands Commerce Team

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber and Foursquare Team Up to Make It Easier to Find Your Destination… Heavy-Hitter Investors Plan a For-Profit Launch Next Month in Denver… Twitter Disbands Commerce Team, Ceases Product Development on ‘Buy’ Button…

Openings and New Hires at 4Info, Matchcraft, Foursquare and Yieldbot

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Every two weeks, Geoff Michener covers some of the latest job changes taking place in this dynamic industry. In this week’s column, Triangle Business Journal gets a new president, Verve Mobile staffs up, and the Daily Voice hires a new publisher.

Street Fight Daily: OpenTable Buys Ness, Chicago Cabbies Sue Uber

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.OpenTable Buys Ness, Tests Mobile Payments (TechCrunch)… Chicago Cabbies Sue Over Unregulated Uber, Lyft Services (Bloomberg)… For Yelp, an Expanding Push Into Politics (Hill)…

Street Fight Daily: LivingSocial ‘Ashamed and Embarrassed,’ Foursquare Loses Product Head

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology“Ashamed and Embarrassed” LivingSocial Says Ongoing 30-Hour Outage Should End Overnight (AllThingsD)… Foursquare’s Head Of Product Checks Out Of Company (CNet)… No Plastic, No Problem: Square Does Away With Deposit Limits For U.S. Businesses (GigaOm)…

Street Fight Daily: PayPal Redesigns App, Braintree’s on the Block

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technologyPayPal Refreshes Mobile App to Woo Shoppers and Fight Off Rivals (New York Times)… Braintree Is On The Block, Had Acquisition Talks With Square (TechCrunch)… Last-Minute Deal App HotelTonight Raises $45 Million (Wall Street Journal)…

Street Fight Daily: NextDoor Launches NYC Partnership, Plum District Acquires Spotivate

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Neighborhood Social Network Nextdoor Launches NYC Partnership (PandoDaily)… Plum District Has Acquired AngelPad-Backed Spotivate For An Undisclosed Amount (TechCrunch)… Tristan O’Tierney, Square’s Co-Founder And Early iOS Engineer, Leaves For Destinations Unknown (TheNextWeb)…

Street Fight Daily: Mobile Companies Ally, Should Yahoo Buy Foursquare?

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Nokia, Samsung, Sony Mobile and Others Form In-Location Alliance, Seek to Boost Indoor Positioning Technologies (TheNextWeb)… Will Foursquare Be Marissa Mayer’s First Big Acquisition At Yahoo? (Marketing Land)… Groupon’s New Operations Czar Grasps Shaky Helm (Chicago Tribune)…

Street Fight to Participate at First Euro Deals Event

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There are over 1500 daily dealers operating in Europe, and Stavros Prodromou, the conference’s organizer, says that the event is meant to spur collaborations and partnerships between the various companies working in the space…

Street Fight Daily: 12.08.11

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

LivingSocial Closes Nearly Half of a $400 Million Round to Delay IPO (AllThingsD)…

Big Ad Money Shifting to Promotions — And Away From Media (PoMo Blog)…

CityMaps Shows Where Businesses Are, Block by Block (New York Times)…