Street Fight Daily: Visa, Mastercard Back NFC, Skyhook Finds an Exit
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… MasterCard, Visa back smartphone payment (Financial Times)… In Mobile Location Tie-Up, Skyhook Wireless Sold to TruePosition (Recode)… Why the Web’s Biggest Players are Gobbling up Location-based Apps (Digiday)…
Street Fight Daily: Same-Day Delivery Stays Hot, China’s Tencent Bets on Local
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Postmates Closes New Financing Round and Passes 10,000 Deliveries a Week (New York Times)… China’s Tencent firms up online-to-offline muscle with review site buy (Reuters)… AP Brings Olympics Coverage to Local News Outlets With Customizable, White-label Microsites (Poynter)…
Street Fight Daily: Airport Tracks Travelers, Yahoo Looks to Contextual Search
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.…At Newark Airport, the Lights Are On, and They’re Watching You
(New York Times)… More on Mayer’s Search Plans for Yahoo: The “Three S’s” and Slipping Through a Microsoft Loophole (Recode)… Apple’s IDFA Crackdown Reverberates Through Mobile Ad Ecosystem (AdExchanger)…
Street Fight Daily: Baseball Bets on Beacons, Square Ramps Up Salesforce
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Major League Baseball Completes iBeacon Installation at First Two Ballparks (Recode)… Square Cuts More Custom Pricing Deals For Merchants And Ramps Up Sales Hiring (TechCrunch)… On-Demand Ride-Sharing Startup Lyft Is Raising Another Big Round Of Funding (TechCrunch)…
Street Fight Daily: Fashion Retailer Tests iBeacon, Local’s Most Innovative Companies
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Fashion Retailer Tries on Apple’s iBeacon for Size (Street Fight)… The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Local (Fast Coppany)… Uber Car-Hailing App Expands in China’s Congested Market
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Street Fight Daily: Square Partners With Whole Foods, Bitcoin Enters the Store
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Square Lands Payments Deal With Whole Foods (Wall Street Journal)… Revel Systems Adds Native Bitcoin Transactions To Its POS Offering (TechCrunch)… Groupon Shares Drop as Executive Plans Departure (Chicago Tribune)…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon Embraces Self-Serve, PlaceIQ Raises $15M More
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.…Now You Can Finally Launch a Groupon Deal Without Ever Talking to a Human (Recode)…Datalogix Buys Shopper-Marketing Firm Spire to Extend Data and Market Reach (AdAge)…What Does the Yahoo-Yelp Partnership Mean for Foursquare? (Fortune)…
Street Fight Daily: OpenTable Buys Ness, Chicago Cabbies Sue Uber
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… OpenTable Buys Ness, Tests Mobile Payments (TechCrunch)… Chicago Cabbies Sue Over Unregulated Uber, Lyft Services (Bloomberg)… For Yelp, an Expanding Push Into Politics (Hill)…
Street Fight Daily: Andreessen Bearish on Local News, Google Bets on Location-based Gaming
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Marc Andreessen: The ‘Problem with Local News is Most People Don’t Care’ (Poynter)… Google: Location-based Gaming as Popular as Virtual Reality in 10 Years (Polygon)… Will Facebook Build a Stand-Alone Local Search App? (Screenwerk)…
Street Fight Daily: Microsoft Invests in Foursquare, Target Turns to Chip and Pin
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Foursquare Teams With Microsoft for Dollars and Data (Wall Street Journal)… Target Vows to Speed Anti-Fraud Technology (New York Times)… Satya Nadella: Our SMB ‘Ringer’ at Microsoft (Local Onliner)…
Street Fight Daily: FoodPanda Raises $20M, Millennials Drive Mobile Bookings
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Foodpanda Gobbles Up $20M In Fresh Funding To Fatten Its Global Pawprint (TechCrunch)… How User Reviews Are Gutting Brands (MediaPost)… Last-Minute Millennials Drive Mobile Bookings, So Make it Easy (Skift)…
Street Fight Daily: LivingSocial Posts $183M Loss, Airbnb Considers Cleaning Service
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… LivingSocial Posts $183M Loss in 2013 (Washington Business Journal)… Airbnb Is Testing Out An Affordable Cleaning Service For Hosts In San Francisco (TechCrunch)… In Defamation Lawsuit Over Yelp Reviews, Neither Side Wins (Washington Post)…
Street Fight Daily: Foursquare Teams With Seamless, Lawsuit Questions Square Story
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Foursquare Can Now Satisfy Your Appetite At Home With Integrated Seamless And GrubHub Ordering (Pando)… Lawsuit Questions Square’s Start-Up Story (New York Times)… PayPal Wants Role in Apple’s Mobile Payments Dreams (Recode)…
Street Fight Daily: Patch Lays Off Hundreds, Amazon Bets on Real-World Payments
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… New Owner of Patch Lays Off Hundreds (New York Times)… Amazon to Offer Kindle Checkout System to Physical Retailers (Wall Street Journal)… Facebook Officially A Mobile Ad Firm With 53% Of Ad Revenue Now Coming From Its 945M Mobile Users (TechCrunch)…
Street Fight Daily: Yahoo Reportedly Eyes Local, Apple CEO Fuels Rumors
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.
… Buy AOL? A More Likely Scenario for Yahoo’s Mayer Is a Big Local Search Acquisition to Spur Growth. (Recode)… CEO Tim Cook Says Touch ID Was Part Of Apple’s Thinking Around Mobile Payments (TechCrunch)… Uber Sued Over Death of 6-Year-Old on San Francisco Street (Businessweek)…
Street Fight Daily: Apple Preps Mobile Payments, Starbucks Readies Order Ahead
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Apple Pushes Deeper Into Mobile Payments (Wall Street Journal)… Starbucks is Getting Ready to Let You Order Coffee Before You Get to the Store (Quartz)… Care.com, The ‘Amazon Of Caregiving Services’ Popped 43% On Its IPO Day (Business Insider)…
Street Fight Daily: Stripe’s Big Round, Rabois Resigns From Yelp’s Board
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Stripe Bolsters its Mobile Payments Cred With $80M Funding Round (GigaOm)… Icahn Says He Is Prepared for eBay Proxy Fight (Wall Street Journal)… Keith Rabois Resigns From Yelp’s Board (Recode)…
Street Fight Daily: Icahn Calls For PayPal Split, Groupon Boosts Hotel Product
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Could Square be Collateral Damage in Carl Icahn’s War on Ebay? (Quartz)… Groupon Adds 20,000 Properties To Its Hotel Feature (Skift)… Tokyo Launches Cab-Calling Mobile App (Wall Street Journal)…
Street Fight Daily: Comcast Resurrects Everyblock, iOS in the Car
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Hyperlocal Website EveryBlock to be Resurrected (Chicago Tribune)… Developer activates Apple’s upcoming iOS in the Car system, shows different interface (9to5Mac)… After Rebranding, YP Names Allison Checchi CMO (Adage)…
Street Fight Daily: Mobile Driving Yelp’s International Growth, Mobile Ads to Hit $18B
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Yelp’s Stoppelman Says Mobile Boom to Aid International Growth (Bloomberg)… Mobile Ad Market Spending To Hit $18BN In 2014, Rising To ~$42BN By 2017, Says Gartner (TechCrunch)… Bike-sharing Faces Bankruptcy: Cities Withhold Money as Bixi Struggles (GigaOm)…