Street Fight Daily: Retail Foot Traffic Slows, LivingSocial Reboots
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Stores Confront New World of Reduced Shopper Traffic (Wall Street Journal)… LivingSocial Board to Prioritize Management, Operations Experience in CEO Search (Washington Post)… Hyper-Local Opportunity: 100 Billion Monthly Ad Impressions (Marketing Land)…
Street Fight Daily: Apple Positions For Payments, Mobile-Local Ad Revenue Grows
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Don’t Count NFC Out of Apple’s Mobile Payment Plans Just Yet (GigaOm)… Location-Based Mobile Ads Forecast To Hit $10.8B In 2017 (MediaPost)… Shopkick Starts 100-Store iBeacon Trial For American Eagle, Biggest Apparel Rollout Yet (TechCrunch)…
Street Fight Daily: AOL Unloads Patch, Handybook Buys Exec
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.…. AOL Unloads Most of Patch Local-News Site (Wall Street Journal)… Handybook Buys Exec in a Deal for the On-Demand World (New York Times)… Jack Dorsey Says The Receipt Is Untapped “Canvas” And “Publishing Medium” (BuzzFeed)…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon Buys Fashion Site, Delivery Hero Nabs $88M
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Groupon Buys Flash Sales Fashion Site Ideeli (USA Today)… Berlin’s Delivery Hero Gobbles Up $88M in Series E Funding (GigaOm)… Lowe’s Backs Recommendation Site for Home Projects (New York Times)…
Street Fight Daily: LivingSocial CEO to Step Down, Court Rules Against Yelp
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… LivingSocial CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy Stepping Down (Washington Post)… Court Rules That Yelp Must Unmask the Identities of Seven Anonymous Reviewers (Atlantic)… What Does the Closure of O2 Wallet Say About the Future of Mobile Payments? (GigaOm)…
Street Fight Daily: How Ford Uses Location Data, Radius Raises $13 M
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… How Chrysler, Ford, GM, Others Use Auto Location Data (AdAge)… Palantir Co-Founder Chases New Data Source: Small Businesses (Wall Street Journal)… In an Economics Experiment, Uber Cuts Prices in 16 Cities (Businessweek)…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon’s Next Big Thing, Yelp Ad Growth Lifts Stock
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Groupon’s Next Big Thing? Helping Mom-and-Pop Shops Unload Extra Inventory. (Recode)… Yelp Reaches High as JPMorgan Says Ad Growth Will Lift Stock (Bloomberg)… Will (Local) Q&A App Jelly Succeed Where Others Have Failed? (Screenwerk)…
Street Fight Daily: Uber’s Surge Pricing Stays, AOL CEO Speaks About Patch
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Uber CEO: Surge Pricing Is Here to Stay (Wall Street Journal)… AOL CEO Upbeat on Adap.tv Business, Patch Partnership (USA Today)… Yelp seeks Washington clout after rapid rise in Silicon Valley (The Hill)…
Street Fight Daily: Cox Buys Back Stake In AutoTrader, LivingSocial Sells Groupon Stock
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Cox to Buy Back Stake in AutoTrader (Wall Street Journal)… LivingSocial Selling its Groupon Stock (Chicago Tribune)… No Mention of Patch in AOL Chief Executive’s End-of-Year Memo (Romenesko)…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon’s Big Acquisition Closes, Shopify Revamps iOS App
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Groupon Finalizes $260 Million Deal for Ticket Monster, LivingSocial’s Korean Business (Recode)… Uber Driver Hits, Kills Six-year-old Girl. Is “Not our Problem” Still an Appropriate Response? (Pando)… Shopify Revamps Its iOS App With A Focus On Payments And Store Management (TechCrunch)…
Street Fight Daily: Yelp Hits The Hill, Google Kills Another Local App
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Yelp Lobbying on Patent, Copyright Reform (The Hill)… Google to Discontinue Schemer, the Goal-Sharing Service That Time Forgot (VentureBeat)… AP New Year’s Eve Photos Appear on Digital Billboards (Poynter)…
Street Fight’s 10 Most Popular Stories From 2013
On this last day of 2013, here’s a look back at some of the Street Fight stories that really piqued your interest this year (at least as far as page views go). We’re grateful for all of your support this past year, and we look forward to bringing you more great content, research, and events about sustainable hyperlocal business models in 2014…
Street Fight Daily: Uber’s Street Fight, The Decline of Alt- Weeklies
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Uber, Taxis Engage in French Street Fight (Wall Street Journal)… How the Village Voice and Other Alt-Weeklies Lost Their Voice in 2013 (Al Jazeera America)… Foursquare Quietly Unlocks Its Own “Local Data Aggregator” Badge (Moz Blog)…
Street Fight Daily: Uber CEO Taunts Critics, RetailMeNot’s Simple Success
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Uber CEO Taunts Price Critics, Points to Airline “Surge Pricing” (GigaOm)… RetailMeNot Wins the Holidays by Not Overthinking It (PandoDaily)… Mobile: Preparing for the Third and Final Wave (Wired)…
Street Fight Daily: Apple Buys Hyperlocal Startups, Booze Brands Align With Taxi Apps
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Apple Acquired Mapping Firm BroadMap, Location-infused Evernote Competitor Catch (9to5 Mac)… Free Rides: Booze Brands Align With Transportation Apps (AdAge)… Foursquare’s New Money Means Facebook Isn’t Everything (Wired)…
Hyperlocal Execs’ 2014 Predictions (Part Two): Locu, Radius, Placed
As we have for the past couple of years, Street Fight recently asked a number of hyperlocal luminaries to weigh in with their predictions for where local is headed in 2014. We ran the first installment of their responses yesterday — here are a bunch more…