A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...After Strong Quarter, Groupon Starts Looking Like a Deal Again (AllThingsD)...Rob Curley Leaves Las Vegas Sun (Poynter)...Understand the 'Local Consumer,' and You’ll Understand How to Serve SMBs (VentureBeat)...

Factual has added deeper analytics to its compendium of location data services with the release of its new Geopulse API this morning. The API enables developers to retrieve contextual information — commercial profiles and density scores as well as demographic indicators like age, gender, and median income — for a given location across Factual’s 50-country reach.

Local social advertising revenues are set to nearly quadruple (3.7x) over the next five years, according to a new study by BIA/Kelsey. The report projects that local spending on social networks will jump from $840 million in 2011 to $1.2 billion in 2012, reaching $3.1 billion in 2016...

A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...Pew Study: 18% Of U.S. Smartphone Owners Use Check-In Apps (TechCrunch)...Journatic CEO: Efficiencies Make Hyperlocal Work (NetNewsCheck)...PayPal’s Key to Winning Mobile Payments: Data (GigaOm)...

A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Closure of CityPockets Provides Window Into Daily Deal Biz Shakeout (GigaOm)...Qype, The Yelp Of Europe, Claims Top Dog Status With 860,000 Places Reviewed (TechCrunch)...AT&T Completes YP Sale (BIA/Kelsey)...

The company’s new venture aims to be a sort of Pinterest for coupon clippers, allowing users to post and "reclip" deals posted by established deal bloggers and friends. Users can use a bookmarklet to clip the image and link to deal and repost the metadata to their Reclipit accounts...

A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...Edo Launches Real-Time Local Offers Platform, Tied To Your Bank Card (TechCrunch)...Foursquare Joins the Coupon Craze (Wall Street Journal)...Four Reasons Why Andreessen Horowitz Is Investing $10 Million in Belly (AllThingsD)...

A group of top debt and equity crowdfunding platform and industry experts launched the Crowdfunding Professionals Association to facilitate a vibrant, credible and growing global crowdfunding community. In an interview with Street Fight, the chair of CfPA's executive committee, Berkeley Geddes, says "crowdfunding has the potential of letting anyone in on the next big deal, not just Wall Street elite."

The mobile audience company that uses WiFi loading pages to connect advertisers with consumers has released its Q1 “Mobile Audience Insights Report” this morning. The big takeaway here is that the mobile device is set to play a large, and potentially disruptive, role in the brick-and-mortar shopping experience moving forward...

A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...Sears Rolls Out Hyperlocal Shopping Site (Crain's Chicago Business)...Want To Know What Apple Will Do Next In Mobile Commerce? Check Out The Pirq It’s Giving To Employees (TechCrunch)...The Real Reason Foursquare Finally Decided To Pursue Revenues Now (Business Insider)...