Street Fight Daily: ‘Daily Deals’ Profit, Yelp Surges

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Report: Most Daily Deals Now Profitable for SMBs, but Not Restaurants (Screenwerk)… Yelp Rises on Speculation of Smaller iPad (Bloomberg)… Community-Powered Traffic Navigation App Waze Hits 20 Million Users, Doubles Up in 6 Months (The Next Web)…

Street Fight Daily: Groupon Retail, Journatic Fallout Continues

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Groupon Opens Concept Store in Singapore (CNet)… The Uncomfortable Truth Behind the Journatic Byline Scandal (GigaOm)… Rumor: Twitter To Acquire Sense Networks To Better Target Local Ads (TechCrunch)

Street Fight Daily: Amazon Maps, Groupon’s Lefkofsky Steps Back

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Amazon Buys 3D Mapping Startup UpNext (GigaOm)… Groupon Chairman Lefkofsky Steps Back From Company (WSJ)… Google+ Local Officially Replaces Places Apps in Mobile (Screenwerk)…

Street Fight’s 5 Most Popular Stories From the First Half of 2012

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The first six months of 2012 have brought a lot of interesting developments in the world of Street Fight — from the publication of our first research report, to our second major industry conference, to the launch of our monthly Hyperlocal Investment Report newsletter and our new job listings board. With the first half of the year in the bag, here’s a look back at the top Street Fight stories (at least in terms of traffic) so far this year…

Street Fight Daily: Journatic Exposed, Living Social Experiments

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technologyJournatic worker takes ‘This American Life’ inside outsourced journalism (Poynter)… LivingSocial Experiments With Daily Deals, and It’s Like a Virtual Club Med (All Things D)… Mobile Is Where The Growth Is (AVC)… With “Connected Apps,” Foursquare Firms Its Position As The Social Network For Places (TechCrunch)… Making Location Services Slick & Simple (Inc.)… With Google Now, Android Puts Apple’s Siri To Shame(SAI)

Street Fight Daily: Twitter’s Mobile Success, Foursquare Apps

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.

Twitter’s Mobile Ads Begin to Click (WSJ)… Foursquare now includes other apps inside its own, adding context to your location (The Next Web)… Tim Armstrong Reportedly Asked An Old Friend To Save Patch, And He Said No (SAI)…

Street Fight Daily: Google Now, ‘Times’ Debriefs on Hyperlocal

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… p style=”text-align: left;”>Google Now’s Personalized Search With Automated Results: Creepy Or The Future Of Search? (Fast Company)…

Five Things The New York Times Leaned From Its Three-Year Hyperlocal Experiment (Nieman Journalism Lab)…

Project Glass Is The Future Of Google (TechCrunch)…

Patch Local Editor is Having Fun (Romenesko)…

Street Fight Daily: NYT Ends ‘Local’ Experiment, Patch Pressure

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.‘Times’ Will End Partnerships with N.Y.U., CUNY on Hyperlocal Blogs (Capital New York)… Patch Puts Pressure on Local Editors (Romenesko) … Groupon China Venture To Merge With Tencent-Backed FTuan (Bloomberg)…

Street Fight Daily: Yelp Featured, Facebook Pulls Location-Aware App

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.
Apple To Feature Yelp Check-Ins Within IPhone Maps App (Bloomberg)…

You Won’t Find Friends Nearby Anymore: Facebook Pulls Its Location-Aware Mobile App To Add New Friends (TechCrunch)…
An NJ Hyperlocal Net to Rival Patch, Literally (NetNewsCheck)…

Street Fight Daily: Facebook Highlights, Google Loosens

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.‘Find Friends Nearby’: Facebook’s New Mobile Feature For Finding People Around You… (TechCrunch)…Google loosens its limits and pricing on Maps API (Nieman Journalism Lab)… The High Value of Discount Prices (WSJ)… Google’s Maps And Commerce Group Is In A CRAZY Level Of Disarray (SAI)

Street Fight Daily: More Recommendations, Square Cloned

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology. Former Microsoft Dealmaker Fritz Lanman Launches Livestar Recommendations App (All Things D)… Rocket Swipes ‘Double Digit Millions’ for Square Clone (GigaOm)… Daily Deal Dashboard Redeem & Get Launches Redepmtion Management Tool for Marketers (The Next Web)… Apps That Present Highlights of the World in Front of You (NYT)

Street Fight Daily: Living Social Flush, AOL at Juncture

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.LivingSocial Steers Clear of IPO (WSJ)…SOURCE: AOL Faces Brutal Choice On Patch — Close It Or Double Down (SAI)…TripAdvisor Relaunches Local Picks Facebook App, for Restaurant Tips from Friends and Locals (The Next Web)

Street Fight Daily: Square Loyalty, LocalResponse Nears Profit

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...

Square Gets Into the Loyalty Game with Digital Punch Cards (GigaOm)…

LocalResponse: Our Ad Network Has 7 Billion Impressions Per Month And Is Almost Profitable (TechCrunch)…

On The Heels Of Its Funding, Yext Gets A New Interface And Review Monitoring (TechCrunch)…

Street Fight Daily: Facebook Ads, Groupon Investor Exits

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Facebook Working on Location-Based Mobile Ad Product (Bloomberg)…

Groupon Shareholder Kinnevik Heads for the Door (GigaOm)…

The Future of News: Mobile, Video, Data – And Crowdsourced (GigaOm)…

PHOTOS: Street Fight Summit West 2012

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Street Fight’s first West Coast conference brought together some of the very top minds in hyperlocal at San Francisco’s Bently Reserve on June 5th. The day-long intensive event took a close look at some of the most important issues affecting hyperlocal content, commerce and technology. We recently posted a gallery of photos from the event featuring some of the more exciting moments from the stage, as well as the networking scene in the back rooms and at the evening cocktail party…

Street Fight Daily: Apple & Google Face Off, Patch Predicts Profit

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.

Apple and Google Go Head to Head Over Mobile Maps (NYT)

Patch’s Webster Predicts Profit in Late 2013 (Net News Check)

Here’s a Sign Merchants are Starting to Really Like Groupon (Yipit Blog)

Street Fight Daily: AOL Fends Off Starboard, ICANN Domains, Seamless

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AOL Doubles Down On Content After Surviving Activist Challenge (Forbes)…

Why Newspapers Were Doomed All Along (Harvard Business Review Blog)…

Groupon Is Winning or Losing, Depending on Who You Ask (NBC Chicago Blog)…

Street Fight Daily: Yelp to Bing Local, IAB Launches Mobile Tools

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Yelp to Feature Reviews on Microsoft’s Bing Local Search Pages (Bloomberg Businessweek)…

IAB Launches Hub For Mobilizing Web Sites (MediaPost)…

Anyone Who Thinks Mobile Advertising Is Going to Be Huge Needs to See These Charts (Business Insider)…

Street Fight Daily: Twitter Localizes Trends, 10M Placecast Users

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Twitter Launches Tailored Trends Based on Location, Who You Follow (TechCrunch)…

Waze And Others Contributing to Apple’s iOS 6 Maps’ Crowd Sourced Traffic Data (TechCrunch)…

Missing the Point on Paywalls (CJR)…

Street Fight Daily: Patch Numbers Up, TBD Loses Final Employee

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Patch Sets Records for Traffic and Revenue (FishbowlNY)…

TBD Loses Its Last Employee (Washington City Paper)…

PlaceIQ, Skyhook Using Location for Brand-Audience Targeting (ScreenWerk)…