Street Fight Daily: LivingSocial Hires CMO, Patch Talks Profitability
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.…. AOL Says One Out of Nine Patch Sites Profitable (SmartMoney)… Former Best Buy CMO Barry Judge Joins LivingSocial to Head Marketing (AllThingsD)… A Dire Prediction For Foursquare, With a Big Asterisk (Forbes)…
Street Fight Daily: Why Hyperlocals Flop, Everyblock Launches Ads
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… The Neighborhood Watch: Why Do Community News Sites, Once Hailed as the Future of Journalism, so Often Flop? (AdWeek)… EveryBlock Launches Native Ads (Everyblock Blog)… Far Fewer People Are Using Facebook Offers Than Facebook’s News Feed Says (Business Insider)…
Street Fight Daily: Ford Adds Glympse, TribLocal Head Exits
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Ford Adds Support For Glympse, Lets Friends Know When You’ll Arrive (Mashable)… Chicago Tribune Exec Leaving Company (Chicago Tribune)… Their Apps Track You. Will Congress Track Them? (The New York Times)…
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: Apple Vets Waze, Yelp Lawsuit Overturned
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Is Apple Plotting A Route To A Waze Acquisition? Rumours On The Road Point To Yes… (TechCrunch)… Judge Can’t Order Yelp User to Edit Negative Review (Ars Technica)… eBay Tries Two New Ways to Sell: Drop-Off Points and Home Pick-Up (AllThingsD)…
Street Fight Daily: Google Partners with Kia, Cloud Computing and Coupons
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Car Rental Company Avis To Buy ZipCar For $500 Million (TechCrunch)… Google Partners with Kia Motors to Integrate Google Maps and Places into New Car Models (The Next Web)… How Cloud Computing Is Accelerating Context-Aware Coupons, Offers and Promotions (Business2Community)…
Street Fight Staff and Friends Predict 2013’s Top Stories
Last week, some top hyperlocal luminaries weighed in with their predictions for what we can expect to see in the coming year. Today we’ve asked Street Fight staffers and a few friends who regularly contribute to the site to submit their prognostications for what is to come in the realm of location-based services, local search, daily deals, and hyperlocal content…
Street Fight’s Most Popular Stories of 2012
On this last day of 2012, here’s a look back at some of the Street Fight stories that really piqued your interest this year (at least as far as pageviews 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 2013!
Street Fight Daily: Patch Editors Anticipate Cuts, Foursquare Opens Data
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Patch Editors Say Staff and Budgets are Being Cut in 2013 (Romenesko)… Foursquare to Make Full Names Public and Share More Check-ins with Businesses (The Verge)… Foursquare to Make Full Names Public and Share More Check-ins with Businesses (The Verge)… Mobile’s Path to Glory (The Wall Street Journal)…
Street Fight Daily: Same-Day Delivery, Managing Competitors in Hyperlocal
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Instantly Yours, for a Fee (The New York Times).. Making of a Hyperlocal: Competitors (Sarah Hartley).. Social-Local Optimization: A Strategic Imperative in 2013 (iMedia Connection)…
Street Fight Daily: SoLoMo Hype Wanes, Groupon Makes Another Goods Buy
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.
Startups Adjust to Web’s Down Cycle (Wall Street Journal)… Groupon Buys CommerceInterface To Improve How Vendors Sell On Groupon Goods (TechCrunch… Why Malls Are Getting Mauled (AllThingsD)…
Street Fight Daily: Bloomspot Bought, Passbook a Hit
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… J.P. Morgan Buys Daily Deals Company Bloomspot (The Wall Street Journal)… Apple’s Passbook Is a Surprise Success for Developers (Wired)… Mobile, Location, Data (Nieman Journalism Lab)…
Street Fight Daily: Foursquare Responds, Apple Exposes Passbook
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Foursquare Responds To Facebook Nearby By Tapping Facebook’s Friend Graph (Search Engine Land)… Apple files for Patent Passbook’s Digital Coupon Feature, Hints at NFC (The New York Times)… How Google Maps May Have Actually Helped Apple (GigaOm)…
Street Fight Daily: Mobile Ad Spend Jumps, Web Only Gets Physical
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… US Mobile Ad Spending Jumps to $4 Billion (eMarketer)… Once Proudly Web Only, Shopping Sites Hang Out Real Shingles (The New York Times)… Garmin Integrates Foursquare and Glympse with Mobile Apps for Non-Creepy Location-Sharing on the Go (The Next Web)…
Street Fight Daily: VeriFone Kills Square Competitor, FTC Probe Nears End
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… VeriFone Gives Up Competing Head-on with Square (GigaOm)… Deal Near on Google Antitrust Probe? (Politico)… With $8M In Seed Funding From Founders Fund, Goldman Sachs; Urban Compass Wants To Build A Hyper-Local, Human-Powered Database (TechCrunch)…
Street Fight Daily: Airbnb Buys Localmind, A New Hail for Gotham
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: Google Maps on iOS, Amazon Pushes Local Services
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… While Apple Regroups, Google Offers a Maps App (The New York Times)… Amazon’s Latest Experiment: Installing Your TV and Other Household Items (GeekWire)… An Apple-Foursquare Hookup Could Mean The End Of Yelp Reviews In iOS (TechCrunch)…