Street Fight Daily: Square Raises $150M, New York’s Secret Beacons
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology…… Square Raises $150 Million at a $6 Billion Valuation (New York Times)… Hundreds Of Devices Hidden Inside New York City Phone Booths (BuzzFeed)… Marriott Settles FCC Complaint About Blocking Rival Wi-Fi Networks (Recode)…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon Goes After Groceries, Google’s ‘Physical Web’
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology…… With New App, Groupon Goes After Grocery Deals (New York Times)… Google Reveals ‘The Physical Web,’ A Project To Make Internet Of Things Interaction App-Less (TechCrunch)… Here’s The Evidence That Google’s Search Results Are Horribly Biased (Business Insider)…
Street Fight Daily: Gannett Buys Rest of Cars.com, Angie’s List Struggles
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology…… Gannett Buys the Rest of Cars.com for $1.8 Billion (Businessweek)… Why Angie’s List Is In Trouble (Time)… PayPal Taps an Outsider to Push It Into a New Era (New York Times)…
Street Fight Daily: News Corp Buys Move.com, Angie’s List Mulls Sale
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Rupert Murdoch Wants to Sell You Your Next Home (Time)… A Report Says Angie’s List Might Sell Itself And Now Its Stock Is Surging (Business Insider)… The Real Reason PayPal Isn’t an Apple Pay Preferred Partner (BankInnovation)…
Street Fight Daily: eBay Spins Off PayPal, Waze Crowdsources Places
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology]… EBay to Spin Off PayPal With New CEOs for Two Publicly Traded Companies (Recode)… With Places (and Your Help), Waze Mapping Gets Smarter On Android And iOS (GigaOm)… Yelp and Tripadvisor Launch Joint Campaign Against Google (Financial Times)…
Street Fight Daily: SK Telecom Buys Shopkick, Facebook Launches Atlas
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… SK Telecom Agrees to Acquire Shopkick (Wall Street Journal)… With New Ad Platform, Facebook Opens Gates to Its Vault of User Data (New York Times)… OpenTable CEO on How Its Game Changes Within Priceline (Skift)…
Street Fight Daily: FiveStars Raises $26M, Postal Service Eyes Grocery Delivery
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Fivestars Raises $26m to Build Up its Digital Loyalty Program (GigaOm)… Postal Service Seeks to Extend Grocery Deliveries (Wall Street Journal)… The Newsonomics of Auctioning Off Digital First’s Newspapers (Nieman Journalism Lab)…
Street Fight Daily: Pro.com Raises Another $14M, Uber Talks to Regulators
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Bezos-Backed Pro.com Raises Another $14 Million to Help Renovate Your Home (Businessweek)… Uber Open to ‘Debate’ With European Regulators Over Ride-Sharing Rules (Wall Street Journal)… Bringing Tablets To Restaurant Tables Nationwide Nets E la Carte $35 Million (TechCrunch)…
Street Fight Daily: Clinkle Finally Launches, Ron Johnson’s New Startup
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Clinkle Finally Launches Its Payments Service (But Not The One Originally Promised) (GigaOm)… Former Apple Exec, J.C. Penney CEO to Launch Delivery Startup (Business Insider)… Macy’s Aims to Become Retail Tech Powerhouse With Latest Moves (Fortune)…
Street Fight Daily: Radius Raises $55M, Square’s New Register
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Radius Raises $54.7 Million to Improve Sales Leads Using Big Data (Wall Street Journal)… Square Is Making a Register That Takes Bitcoin and Apple Pay (Wired)… Hotels Use Online Reviews as Blueprint for Renovations (New York Times)…
Street Fight Daily: LightSpeed Raises $35M, Small Businesses Spend on Social
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Retail Software Startup LightSpeed Raises $35 Million From iNovia (Recode)… Small Businesses Spend More on Social Than Any Other Media (AdAge)… For Mobile Marketers, The More Crowded The Better (Wall Street Journal)…
Street Fight Daily: First Data’s Turnaround, Offline Sellers’ Search Spending
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… KKR Banks on Bisignano Forging Apple Deal at First Data (Bloomberg)… More than Half of Top 25 Google AdWords Spenders Sell Mostly Offline (Screenwerk)… The Case Against Everything on Demand (Recode)…
Street Fight Daily: Square To Raise $100M, Digital First Mulls Sale of Papers
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Square to Raise $100 Million at a $6 Billion Valuation (New York Times)… Digital First Media Will Explore Sale of Papers (Poynter)… Apple Deal Sheds Light on McDonald’s Digital Transformation (Mashable)…
Street Fight Daily: Ebay’s Mobile Ad Business, Consolidation in Calls
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… eBay Launching First Mobile Ad Business in Q4 (Recode)… Voice Marketing Company Ifbyphone Raises $30M More, Acquires Competitor Mongoose Metrics (TechCrunch)… Consumer Spending Data Indicates Uber is Far Larger and Growing Faster Than Lyft (Pando)…
Street Fight Daily: California’s ‘Yelp Law,’ Apple Pay and Brands
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… California Protects the Right to Yelp Without Penalty (Washington Post)… What Apple Pay Means for Marketers (AdAge)… Guardian Space & Guardian Membership, Playing the Physical/Digital Continuum (Nieman Journalism Lab)…
Street Fight Daily: Mastercard’s Wearable Future, Apple Eyes Path
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… MasterCard CMO Talks Brand Transition From Credit Cards to Wearables (AdAge)… Source: Apple Set to Acquire Path in an Attempt to Bolster iOS Social Cred (Pando)… Mobile Retail Passes the 50% Point, Tops Desktop (MediaPost)…
Street Fight Daily: Uber’s ‘Gentler’ Approach, The Return of Directories
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber CEO Thinks It Needs To Be Kinder And Gentler Now That It’s On Top (TechCrunch)… Foursquare Reintroduces Leaderboards in Swarm Update (Mashable)… Post-Pigeon Best Practice: How To Optimize For Internet Yellow Pages & Directories (SearchEngineLand)…
Street Fight Daily: xAd Raises $50 Million, iWatch to Include Payments
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Location Is Everything, As Mobile Ad Startup xAd Raises $50M Led By IVP (TechCrunch)… Apple Watch to Allow Mobile Payments (Wall Street Journal)… Interpublic Invests in Mobile Measurement Company Placed (MediaPost)…
Street Fight Daily: Comcast Reviving Everyblock, DeliveryHero Raises $350M
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Comcast Bets on Hyperlocal by Reviving EveryBlock (Washington Post)… Delivery Hero, Hungry For Growth, Orders Up Another $350M In Funding (TechCrunch)… Nokia Plans to Unfurl New Mobile Map App (Wall Street Journal)…