A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Yelp Open to Partnering With Facebook's Rival Offering (Reuters)... Foursquare Is Generating Too Much Useless Noise (AdAge)... Nesta Research: Public Interest High, Advertiser Interest Low for Hyperlocal Media (London School of Economics)...

A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Postmates’ Local Delivery Service Hits New York City (HuffingtonPost)... Waze Mapping App Gets a Little More Social with Facebook Events (VentureBeat)... 70% Of Mobile QSR Campaigns Use Location Targeting (MediaPost)...

Local media companies need to do something to protect their digital sales assets or run the risk of losing them to pureplay web companies, according to a new report from Borrell Associates. Pureplays offer starting salaries in the range of $12,500 per year more than their nearest competitors, the local TV stations. The gap between starting pureplay sales people and those who work for newspapers is an incredible $21,000 more...

A roundup of today's big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.... Google’s Plan to Personalize Maps Could End Public Space as We Know It (Slate)... Square Is the Shape of Things to Come, Says Jack Dorsey (Telegraph)... Why Waze Is a Hot Takeover Target (CNN/Money)...

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)...

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)...

As more consumers look to their smartphones to engage with business locally, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) need to lay out a concise mobile marketing strategy. In a Street Fight webinar Tuesday sponsored by YP, Asif Khan of the Location-based Marketing Association, and YP’s David Williams discussed the trends that make mobile a must for SMBs, and highlighted a handful of first steps that local businesses can take to keep up with their smartphone-wielding customers....

The payments space is starting to settle down. The flow of seed funding has slowed, and a handful companies have separated from the pack, raising meaningful capital over the past year. Add Providence-based Swipely to that list. The payments processing and analytics play has raised $12 million in new funding in a series B round led by Shasta Ventures...

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)...

AOL’s Patch network of community news sites made significant staff cuts on Friday among its regional news teams and promoted Steven Kalin to CEO, in what looks to be its biggest move yet toward reaching its long-promised goal of profitability by the end of 2013...