Street Fight Daily: Groupon Buys FeeFighters, Howard Owens on Paywalls

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Groupon Acquires FeeFighters, the BillShrink for Business Services (TechCrunch)…

Paywalls Create Opportunities for Local News Entrepreneurs (howardowens.com)…

You Say ‘SoLoMo,’ I Say, ‘I Hate My Life’ (TechCrunch)…

Street Fight Daily: Yelp Integration With Siri, Groupon Now Lags

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Deeper Yelp Integration with Siri Gives Site More Visibility (ScreenWerk)…

GrouponNow Lags, But Other Products Gain Speed (Crain’s Chicago Business)…

Online, Offline Data Ad Platforms Emerge (Mediapost)…

Street Fight Daily: Guardian’s n0tice Opens Up, Amazon Battles Groupon

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How to Fix Location-Based People Discovery (TechCrunch)

Guardian’s Hyperlocal Project n0tice Opens to Everyone, Adds Features (n0tice)

Amazon’s Key to Beating Groupon at Daily Deals (AllThingsD)

Street Fight Daily: Groupon Scheduler, $2.5M Funding for CityMaps

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CityMaps Nabs $2.5M To Render Your City Social, One Block At A Time (TechCrunch)…

Groupon Scheduler Rolls Out in Beta as Part of Larger Tech Ambitions (AllThingsD)…

How Community News is Faring (Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism)…

Street Fight Daily: PayPal Here’s Squeeze on Square; Truth in Online Ad Numbers; Groupon Fines

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups: How PayPal Here Could Lay the Hurt on Square and Others (GigaOm)… What’s ‘Reality’ When Calculating Online Ad Numbers for Local TV & Radio? (BIA/Kelsey)… Groupon UK Told to Clean Up After Record Complaints (GigaOm)… AOL Snaps Up Hyperlocal Photosharing App Hipster (TechCrunch)… and more:

Street Fight Daily: Oink Shutters, SXSW Location Wrap, Groupon Poaches

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Kevin Rose’s Oink Shuts Down (TechCrunch)…

Big Hyperlocal Blogs Looking At Advertising All Wrong (Business Insider)…

SXSW: Location, Location, Location Fuels Mobile Apps (MacWorld)…

Street Fight Daily: Village Soup Folds, Armstrong Defends Patch

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Village Soup’s Hot Pursuit of a Hyperlocal Model Goes Cold (Nieman Lab)…

The Geo-Social Revolution That Wasn’t (GigaOm)…

AOL’s Armstrong: Why Patch Is a Good Investment (Romenesko)…

Street Fight Daily: Tending to Patch, Fondu Redesign, Hyperlocal Panel at SXSW

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The Constant Gardener: My 2 Years Tending AOL’s Hyperlocal Experiment (CJR)…

Shoppers Prefer Using Mobile Web Over Retail Apps (Mashable)…

Solving the Problem of Mobile Location: More Consumer Education than Technology (Screenwerk)…

Street Fight Daily: The Gap Geo-Fences, Loopt Sells, Gowalla Shutters

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Gap Campaign Rethinks Old-School Bus Station Ads (TechCrunch)…

Loopt Sale Shows Future of Location Is Commerce (GigaOm)…

Foursquare Nears 20 Million Users And Crowley Talks About His Co-founder’s Recent Departure (Business Insider)…

Street Fight Daily: Highlight Updates, Groupon Crushing It, Tippr Layoffs

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Hot Location-based Networking App Highlight Gets Even More Useful (TNW)…

Chart: Groupon Is Crushing Its Closest Rival (Business Insider)…

Daily Deal Site Tippr Lays Off 25 staffers, Restructures Sales (GeekWire)…

Street Fight Daily: 03.08.12

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Facebook Becomes Location Backbone That Lets Apps Import Checkins From Each Other (Street Fight)…

Will Ambient Social Location Apps Be Consumer Duds? (ReadWriteWeb)…

AOL Patch Sales People Reportedly Being Fired (Business Insider)…

Street Fight Daily: 03.07.12

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Co-Founder Naveen Selvadurai ‘Tried To Fight’ Departure From Foursquare (Business Insider)…

South by Serendipity (GigaOm)…

INTRO Wants To Be The LinkedIn Of The Ambient Location Apps (TechCrunch)…

Street Fight Daily: 03.06.12

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Time Magazine, Foursquare Partner For Political Conventions (PaidContent)…

LBS App Highlight: The Startup Everyone Is Saying Will Win SXSW This Year (Business Insider)…

Newspapers: It’s Not a Revenue Problem, It’s a Culture Problem (GigaOm)…

Street Fight Daily: 03.05.12

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Yelp is worth $1.5 billion… Now what? (GigaOm)…

How Newspapers Are Faring Trying to Build Digital Revenue (Pew Research)…

Square’s Register and the Return of the Mom-and-Pop Shop (GigaOm)…

Street Fight Daily: 03.02.12

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LivingSocial to Launch Its First Credit Card (Reuters)…

How LevelUp Is Taking a Page From Starbucks (GigaOm)…

10 Things to Know About Location Right Now (Ad Age)…

Street Fight Daily: 03.01.12

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LevelUp Now Seeing $1M Per Month In Transactions; Launches API (TechCrunch)…

Facebook Premium: Ads Everywhere, Ads Everywhere, Ads (BetaBeat)…

Foursquare Dumps Google, Goes Open-Source for Maps (ReadWriteWeb)…

Street Fight Daily: 02.28.12

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Groupon Reports Mobile App Growth, International Expansion Plans (Mashable)…

How This Month’s Google Search Changes Affect Local Businesses (ReadWriteWeb)…

Will an App for Broadcasting Our Future Locations Really Work? (Shiny Shiny)…

Street Fight Daily: 02.27.12

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3 Things Retailers Can Learn from Mom and Pop Facebook Stores (Mashable)…

Print is Dead! Long Live Print? (TechCrunch)…

Patch: We’re nothing like Main Street Connect (Jim Romenesko)…

Street Fight Daily: 02.24.12

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The Holy Grail of Rich Location Data Made Easy by Geoloqi (ReadWriteWeb)…

The Newsonomics of Hyperlocal’s Next Round: Patch, Digital First, and More (Nieman Lab)…

9 Ways B2Bs Can Excel With Location-Based Social Media (LunaMetrics)…

Street Fight Daily: 02.23.12

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Yelp: From Scrappy Startup to $100 Million IPO (Mashable)…

In Digital Shift, Ad Dollars ‘Evaporate’ (ScreenWerk)…

Loyalty Apps Get Real Results: Five to Watch (PC World)…