Street Fight Daily: Product Ads Come to Google Image Search, Weighing Bots’ Promise
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google Product Listing Ads Officially Launch in Image Search… MCX, the Big Retailer Answer to Apple Pay, Announces Layoffs and Another Product Delay… Amazon Launches Restaurant Delivery in Manhattan with More Than 350 Eateries
Street Fight Daily: In-N-Out Burger Sues DoorDash, Uber Partners with TomTom
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… In-N-Out Burger Sues DoorDash for Delivering Its Food Without Permission (Recode)… Uber Signs Digital Mapping Deal with TomTom (New York Times)… Angie’s List Shares Surge After Company Rejects IAC Offer (USA Today)…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon Nears Big Deal, SMBs Balk at Social
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… KKR Investor Group Nears Deal for Ticket Monster (Wall Street Journal)… Small Businesses Are So-So About Social (eMarketer)… Linking Digital Ads To In-Store Visits Continues To Spread: Tapad, Placed Ink Dea (MediaPost)…
Street Fight Daily: Google Lets SMBs Respond, Mobile Investment Booms
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology…… “Google My Business” App Now Lets Business Owners Respond To Customer Reviews From Their Smartphone (TechCrunch)… Mobile Internet Investment Hits Record $19.2b — Up 232% In Last 12 Months (VentureBeat)… Maker of Apple Pay Competitor Has Already Been Hacked (Recode)…
Street Fight Daily: Comcast Reviving Everyblock, DeliveryHero Raises $350M
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Comcast Bets on Hyperlocal by Reviving EveryBlock (Washington Post)… Delivery Hero, Hungry For Growth, Orders Up Another $350M In Funding (TechCrunch)… Nokia Plans to Unfurl New Mobile Map App (Wall Street Journal)…
Street Fight Daily: Cars.com on the Block, Lyft Raises $150M
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Newspaper Consortium Seeks to Sell Cars.com for $3 Billion (Wall Street Journal)… Lyft Funding Official: Documents Filed for New $150 Million Round (Recode)… TripAdvisor Plans Mbile Travel Guide Features in the Face of Competition From Rivals like Foursquare and Google Now (TheNextWeb)…
Street Fight Daily: Retailers Get Into Mobile Payments, Holovaty Out at EveryBlock
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology... 
Target, Walmart and Co.: Why Leave Mobile Payments to Others? (GigaOm)… Did Yelp and TripAdvisor Push Google to Compete? (New York Times/Bits)… Founder Adrian Holovaty Leaving EveryBlock After 5 Years (Holovaty.com)…
FTC Pushes ‘Do Not Track’ for Consumer Privacy
The Federal Trade Commission this morning released its final Commission Privacy Report, emphasizing the need for a “do not track” mechanism to protect consumers from unauthorized collection of their personal information and more laws to protect consumer privacy. The report will give hyperlocal advertisers, publishers, and location-based services some insight on the direction policymakers will take in 2012 regarding consumer privacy…