Street Fight Daily: Patch To Close 400 Sites, eBay Launches Retail CRM

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technologyAOL Won’t Deny The Rumor That Patch’s CEO Is Out After Just Two Months On The Job (Business Insider)… eBay Launches Salesforce-like Platform For Merchants (TheNextWeb)… Google Directs ‘Relevant Ads’ to Maps (CNet)…

Street Fight Daily: Amazon May Expand Deliveries, In-Store Tech Heats Up

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technologyAmazon Is Going To Start Delivering Groceries To New York City In 2014, Says Analyst (Business Insider)… In-Store Tech Is So Hot Right Now: Sephora Acquires Fragrance Software Startup Scentsa (AllThingsD)… Smartphone Owners Turn to Local TV News Apps (eMarketer)…

Street Fight Daily: eBay To Expand Same-Day Delivery, Print Revenues Weigh on Gannett

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology…. With Amazon in Its Crosshairs, eBay to Launch Same-Day Delivery for eBay.com Purchases by Year’s End (AllThingsD)… Decline In Newspaper Advertising Weighs On Gannett Results (Reuters)… Small Businesses Shirk Advertising (AdAge)…

Street Fight Daily: Yelp Open to Graph Search, Foursquare’s Flaw

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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)…

Street Fight Daily: Google Expands Local Delivery, Hiring in Hyperlocal

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Google Starts Testing Google Shopping Express In SF, With Free Delivery From Target, Walgreens, Staples And More (TechCrunch)… Apple Hiring ‘Ground Truth’ Managers To Improve Maps (Search Engine Land)… Did Poor Collaboration Lead To The Termination Of NYU’s Blog With The New York Times? (NYU Local)…

Street Fight Daily: Google Delivers Same-Day, Local Search on Mobile

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Google Shopping Express Test Partners Include Target And Other Local SF Stores (TechCrunch)… Only 29% Of Consumers Regularly Use Mobile Devices To Find Local Businesses (Search Engine Land)… Retailer Enthusiasm for Mobile Payments Tempered by Power Struggles in Industry (Mobile Commerce Daily)…

Street Fight Daily: Daily Voice Layoffs, Google Preps Same-Day Delivery

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Daily Voice Closes Mass. Sites, Lays Off Some in Connecticut and New York (The Hour)… Google Is Building A Same-Day Amazon Competitor, “Google Shopping Express” (TechCrunch)… These People are Likely Contenders to be Groupon’s Next CEO (Quartz)…

Street Fight Daily: NextDoor Funding, Yahoo Looks to Local Discovery

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Neighborhood Network Nextdoor Raises $21.6 Million (Reuters)… With New Alike Mobile App Acquisition, Yahoo Pushes Into Local Discovery (AllThingsD)… Verve Mobile Raises $14M, Invests In Location-Based Tech (Media Post)…

Street Fight Daily: PayPal Expands In-Store, Hyperlocal Media Defended

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.PayPal Adds New Retailers For In-Store Payments Product; Tests Order-Ahead Pickup At Jamba Juice (TechCrunch)… Hyperlocal is Deserving of Its Hype (The Guardian)… Scoutmob Finds Surprise Success with Etsy Competitor Shoppe (PandoDaily)…

Street Fight Poll: Consumers May Pay Extra for Same-Day Delivery

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In a recent Street Fight poll, 64% of consumers said they might be willing to pay a few dollars extra to receive retail goods faster, though for many it depends on the order. In a poll of 500 anonymous U.S. consumers, 14.8% said they’re very likely to pay extra for same-day retail delivery, and 14.8% said they’re somewhat likely…

Street Fight Daily: Same-Day Delivery, Managing Competitors in Hyperlocal

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Instantly Yours, for a Fee (The New York Times).. Making of a Hyperlocal: Competitors (Sarah Hartley).. Social-Local Optimization: A Strategic Imperative in 2013 (iMedia Connection)…

Street Fight Daily: Google Tests Same-Day Delivery, Facebook’s Local Hole

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Google Is Testing Same-Day Delivery for Shoppers (New York Times)… The Big Market Facebook is Missing Out On (GigaOm)… Now Amazon Can Easily Win The $100 Billion Local Commerce Market And The $150 Billion Smartphone Market (Forbes)…

Street Fight Daily: Ebay’s Same-Day Delivery, Google Localizes Political Spend

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.EBay Debuts Same-day Delivery Service from Local Retailers, ‘eBay Now’ (Venture Beat)… Google Takes Political Online Ads Local, Allows Campaigns To Target Congressional Districts (TechCrunch)… LivingSocial’s Tim O’Shaughnessy on the Power of Decisions (Entrepreneur)…