Street Fight Daily: Waze Gets Social with Facebook, Spun Upgrades News App

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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)…

Street Fight Daily: ‘Find My Friends’ on Facebook, DFM Considers Paywall

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Facebook Is Said to Create Mobile Location-Tracking App (Bloomberg)… Digital First Media is Working on Paywalls, Even Though It Really Doesn’t Want To (PaidContent)… Will “Stalking Apps” Be Stopped? (Time)…

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Waze, Spun

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan have nine different stories, including their bewilderment at Waze; why they think 4sqTrigger is onto something; and UrbanAirship’s progress with Tello. Also Scott Lindenbaum of Spun talks about using a goat for location-based marketing…

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Urban Airship, Spun

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at how phone carriers are striking back; Broadcastr spins to Spun; acquisition news from Urban Airship; funding news from Clearstory and Poshmark and special guest Spun co-founder Scott Lindenbaum…

Street Fight Daily: Airbnb Buys Localmind, A New Hail for Gotham

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Airbnb Goes Social and Local with Acquisition of Localmind (GigaOm)… Hail to the Big Apple! NYC Temporarily Approves Taxi Apps, but e-Hailing’s Restricted to 1.5 miles (The Next Web)… Franken’s Location Privacy Bill Voted Out Of Judiciary Committee (AdWeek)…

Street Fight Daily: LivingSocial Layoffs, Google Buys Couponer

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.LivingSocial expected to lay off 400 in U.S. (Washington Business Journal)…
Google Buys ‘Coupon’ Platform Incentive Targeting For Closed-Loop Marketing (Screenwerk)… The Story Of Adku, And Why Andrew Mason Isn’t The Problem At Groupon (TechCrunch)…