Street Fight Daily: Digital Ads Up, Yahoo Local Under the Axe

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

Digital Advertising Surged 22 Percent in 2011, to $31B (PaidContent)…

What’s Next for LivingSocial? (Fortune)…

Will Yahoo Local Get the Axe? (ScreenWerk)…

Street Fight Daily: MasterCard Deals, Mobile Ads Take Off

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MasterCard Jumps into Deals Space (BIA/Kelsey)…

2012: The Year Mobile Advertising Starts to Pay Off (GigaOm)…

A Faint Gloom Cloud Hovers Over The Daily Deal Summit (BetaBeat)…

Delivery.com CEO: Hyperlocal Marketing Helps SMBs Compete

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Street Fight’s recently published white paper “The Local Merchant” put a spotlight on the motivations of small and medium-sized business owners — and the hyperlocal companies that are marketing to them. The 48-page examination of this $38 billion customer base was underwritten in part by Delivery.com. Here, Delivery.com CEO Jed Kleckner offers a first-hand look at his company’s experience interfacing with local merchants…

Street Fight Daily: Foursquare’s 20M, Groupon Acquires Ditto.me

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Foursquare Hits 20M Users — But How Many Are Active? (ReadWriteWeb)…

Groupon Acquires Social Recommendation App Ditto.me (TechCrunch)…

Former Yahoo Exec: 30% of PC Search Is Local (ScreenWerk)…

Street Fight Daily: Pandora’s Local Push, Foursquare’s Future

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Pandora Courts Local Advertisers, by Offering Well-Defined Listeners (New York Times)…

Facebook Buys Customer Loyalty App Tagtile, Continues Focus on Mobile (GigaOm)…

Foursquare May Not Be Toast Yet, But It’s Browning At The Edges (Business Insider)…

Street Fight Daily: Samwer Out at Groupon, Local Online Ad Spending Hot

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Marc Samwer Out as Groupon’s International Boss (GigaOm)…

Local Online Ad Spending Is Red Hot Again (Media Life)…

Study: Most Adults Follow Local News Closely (Pew Internet)…

Street Fight Daily: Facebook/Foursquare?, MapQuest’s mqVibe

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Will Facebook Buy Foursquare Next? (ZDNet)…

Groupon Accounting Problems Put Spotlight on Board (Reuters)…

Consumer Trust in Online, Mobile Ads Grows (NetNewsCheck)…

Street Fight Daily: Local Pinterest, Gtrot, Groupon’s Broken ‘Promise’

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‘Groupon Promise’ Broken? (VentureBeat)…

5 Ways to Market Your Brand With Location-Based Networks (Mashable)…

What Local TV Newsrooms Are Pinning on Pinterest (Lost Remote)…

Street Fight Launches New Investment Newsletter

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Street Fight has just published the first installment of “The Hyperlocal Investment Report,” a monthly deep dive into the financial state of the hyperlocal industry. The report provides hard-to-find market analysis for investors and startups focused on hyperlocal content, commerce and technology…

Street Fight Daily: AT&T Unloads Yellow Pages, New Groupon Suit Targets Execs

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AT&T Sells Majority Stake in Yellow Pages to Cerberus (New York Times)…

New Groupon Lawsuit Targets Execs, Seeks Board Seats for Shareholders (PaidContent)…

Before Local-Mobile Revenues Can Grow, Major Problems Must Be Solved (ScreenWerk)…

Street Fight Daily: Pinterest for Hyperlocal Marketing, Groupon’s Bad Press

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5 Pinterest Tips for Hyperlocal Marketing (MediaPost)…

What Does All the Bad Press Mean for Groupon? (VentureBeat)…

Banjo Tries To Bolster Its Position As The All-In-One Location App (TechCrunch)…

Street Fight Daily: Pandora Goes Local, AroundMe’s 6M Users

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Pandora: Over 400 Local Ad Campaigns in 2012 (NetNewsCheck)…

Local Search App AroundMe Trumps Yelp’s Mobile Apps With 6M Monthly Users (TechCrunch)…

KOMO Launches Connected TV Apps (TVNewsCheck)…

Street Fight Daily: Groupon Sued, ExxonMobil Taps Shopkick

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Groupon Hit With First Shareholder Suit Over Accounting (PaidContent)…

Urban Airship Brings Location, Context Targeting To Mobile Notifications (TechCrunch)…

ExxonMobil Taps Shopkick To Lure Drivers (MediaPost)…

Street Fight Daily: SEC Probes Groupon, Manta Raises $44M

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SEC Probes Groupon (Wall Street Journal)…

Borrell: Local Online Advertising to Grow 21% (NetNewsCheck)…

Online Community For Small Businesses Manta Raises $44M (TechCrunch)…

Street Fight Daily: Groupon Restates, Bing Eliminates Local Targeting in Some Markets

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Groupon Restates Q4 Earnings (Crain’s Chicago Business)…

LivingSocial Finds That Full-Price Offers Work Better on Mobile Than Discounts (AllThingsD)…

Funding Circle, a Kickstarter for SMBs, Picks Up $16M From Index, Union Square Ventures (TechCrunch)…

Street Fight Daily: LivingSocial Co-Founder Steps Down, Foursquare Adds Bios

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LivingSocial Co-Founder And President Steps Down (Startup Stats)…

Foursquare Adds Bios To Profile Pages, Evolving As A More Self-Contained Social Network (TechCrunch)…

Is Hyperlocal News a Failed Business Model? (NetNewsCheck)…

Street Fight Brings Popular Summit to San Francisco!

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On June 5, hyperlocal’s brightest minds will converge on the Bently Reserve in downtown San Francisco for Street Fight Summit West, the first West Coast conference produced by Street Fight. Confirmed speakers and attendees include some of the top thinkers in hyperlocal. Early bird tickets are available at a 50% discount for a limited time…

Street Fight Daily: LivingSocial Delivers, Facebook Check-ins

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LivingSocial Launches Takeout and Delivery Service (Wall Street Journal)…

Facebook Is Redefining Checkin Numbers for Pages (Mashable)…

Groupon Scheduler a Foot in the Door for Other SMB Services (ScreenWerk)…

Rick Blair Joins Street Fight as Adviser and Columnist

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When you want to know how to make money in hyperlocal publishing, you can’t go wrong by turning to Rick Blair. The former CEO of Examiner.com led that business’s innovative, and occasionally controversial, push into a new revenue model for publishing. Under his leadership, the network grew to to 1.5 billion page views, more than 1 million articles and regularly ranked among the top 10 most trafficked news sites.

Street Fight Daily: Twitter’s SMB Self-Serve, DudaMobile Funding

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Twitter Launches Self-Service Ads for Small Businesses (Twitter Advertising Blog)…

Check-In Needs To Work, But How Can We Fix It? (TechCrunch)…

Daily Deals: Do Consumers Still Care? (Ad Age)…