Street Fight Daily: Local News Lost, Groupon Bundles SEO
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… American News Consumers Have Gained the World but Lost Their Backyards (Atlantic)… Groupon Offers SEO Deal to Businesses (Upstart)… Barista Problems: Why Starbucks Isn’t the Energy Shot Square Needed (PandoDaily)…
Street Fight Daily: FTC Clears Google, Square Sold at Starbucks
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Yelp Calls FTC Deal with Google a ‘Missed Opportunity’ (CNet)… Now on Sale at Starbucks: Square’s Credit Card Reader (The New York Times)… You’re Not Alone: Hyper-Local People-Finding (ClickZ)…
Street Fight Daily: Square Rolls Out Starbucks Deal, Waze Launches Ads
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… 7,000 Starbucks Locations Added to the Square Wallet (AllThingsD)… Waze Begins Monetization Push with Location-Guided Ads (GigaOm)… Trulia’s Sales Surge as Real Estate Agents Use Mobile (Bloomberg Businessweek)…
Street FIght Daily: Yelp Dismisses Google’s Local Content, Google Expands Wallet
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Yelp Not Worried About Google’s “Struggling” Local Content Play (PandoDaily)… Google Wallet Expands To Mobile Web (TechCrunch)… Coupons Boost Starbucks (The Wall Street Journal)…
Street Fight Daily: Local Online Ad Rev to Jump 30%, Facebook Reviews
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Borrell: Newspaper Revenue to Rise in 2013 (GigaOm)… Watch Out, Yelp: Facebook Is Thinking About Restaurant Reviews
(Business Insider)… Square, Starbucks roll out service (USA Today)…
With Passbook, iPhone 5 Answers Mobile’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’
More data on a faster device means new opportunities for data-heavy hyperlocal developers, which should open up some new innovations by developers. And while the omission of near-field communications may dash the hopes of some who looked for Apple to push into payments, it does not diminish the potential impact of iOS6, the operating system announced in June, and its key feature — Passbook…
Street Fight Daily: Ford Integrates Offers, Web Readership Booming
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.…Daily Deals Are Coming to Your Car (Wired)… Why Starbucks is betting on Square (GigaOm)… Two Years After the Tipping Point, Papers’ Web Readership is Booming (Paid Content)…
Street Fight Daily: Starbucks Meet Square, Craigslist Holes Up
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Starbucks and Square to Team Up (NYT)… Craigslist Cuts Off Its Search Engine to Spite Its Face (GigaOm)… Why Apple Should Buy Foursquare (TechCrunch)…
Location-Aware Games Are Engaging Consumers — And Marketers
One retail brand already taking advantage of Rovio’s real-world location-based gaming feature Magic Places is Barnes and Noble. Last summer the company announced that you could take your Nook Color into a physical Barnes & Noble store and use the Mighty Eagle for free to clear levels in Angry Birds. This kind of partnership can become a great method for retailers to drive additional foot traffic and sales…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon’s Free-Fall Continues, Svpply to Local
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Free-Falling Groupon Has Its Problems but Bankrupacy Talk Is Bunk (All Things D)… Svpply’s Store Explorer Lets You Window Shop From Your Phone (Fast Company)… Location, Personalization Key Factors in Mobile Advertising Triumph (Mobile Marketer)
Street Fight Daily: AmEx CFO to Groupon Board, DNA Info Expands
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...
Starbucks CEO Leaves Groupon Board to Make Room for AmEx CFO (PaidContent)…
NYC Hyperlocal News Startup DNA Info Hires Staff, Expands to Outer Boroughs (Washington Post)…
Yelp Gives $1.2M to Settle Unpaid Overtime Suit (GigaOm)…
Mobile-Local Shopping Comes Into Focus
Customers are getting poached right under retailers’ noses by Amazon and the rest of the showrooming brigade. So what are retailers doing to combat these challenges as we enter the biggest shopping season in the biggest year of local retail transformation since the invention of the department store? The results so far are mixed…