Street Fight Daily: Square Buys Scheduling Startup, Uber’s Latest Snafu
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.…Square Acquires BookFresh To Add Booking Services For Merchants (TechCrunch)… Uber Kept New Drivers Off the Road to Encourage Surge Pricing and Increase Fares (Verge)… The Payments Challenge for Mobile Carriers (New York Times)…
Street Fight Daily: LivingSocial CEO to Step Down, Court Rules Against Yelp
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… LivingSocial CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy Stepping Down (Washington Post)… Court Rules That Yelp Must Unmask the Identities of Seven Anonymous Reviewers (Atlantic)… What Does the Closure of O2 Wallet Say About the Future of Mobile Payments? (GigaOm)…