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Street Culture: A Culture of Growth at PacketZoom

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“Introducing [new employees] to the culture has been very important; it’s important that the people we hire are growth-oriented,” PacketZoom co-founder Chetan Ahuja says. “We want them to already be useful to the business, but their main goal is to grow and to grow with the company. They’re much more valuable that way.”

LBMA Podcast: Extreme Networks, Facebook, Daimler AG

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This Week in Location Based Marketing is a weekly video podcast from the Location Based Marketing Association with Asif Khan, Rob Woodbridge & Aubriana Lopez. On the show: What3Words, Hold app, StubHub goes AR for Super Bowl, Amazon expands DASH, Clear Channel, Reebok “Get’s Pumped”, Acuity partners with Phunware.

Street Fight Daily: Benchmark’s Kalanick Suit Dismissed, IAB Releases Influencer Guidelines

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Benchmark’s Lawsuit Against Former Uber CEO Kalanick Dismissed (TechCrunch) It’s over. Benchmark’s lawsuit against former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has now been dropped, ending one of the biggest VC-founder disputes in history. Street Culture: A Culture of Growth at PacketZoom (Street Fight) “Introducing [new employees] […]

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LBMA Podcast: Millenial/JumpTap, Placed, and Siamese Systems

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On the show: Google launches Carousel visual search; Renew London smart recycling bins are sniffing your MAC address; Millennial scoops up JumpTap; Tour Sicily with the San Pellegrino robot; Placed trying to morph into the ComScore of the real world; Riding the payment waves without batteries; Special guest Alex Kottoor of Siamese Systems talks mobile CSI…

Street Fight Daily: Apple Acquires Embark, Uber’s Huge Valuation

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technologyApple Acquires Embark, Another Mapping App With Transit Information (TechCrunch)… Uber’s Breathtaking Valuation: Is It Really Different This Time? (Forbes)… Yelp CEO Insists The Site’s Reviews Are Accurate (Forbes)…

Survey: 52% of SMBs Still Don’t Have a Website

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Yodle has released the findings from its first Small Business Sentiment Survey, which recently asked 306 small business owners nationwide for their perspectives on a variety of topics, and found some interesting results when it comes to SMBs and technology. According to the survey, “many small business owners are still not adopting modern technology and marketing approaches.”

What Comes After Local TV?

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Let’s assume that local TV, like local radio did before it, will have to morph into something different. What would that look like? How would it make money? What content would it or could it produce that would accumulate an audience that it could sell? Is one-to-many still an advantage of any sort? Will the new model in any way resemble the old?

Strategies for Overcoming Privacy Concerns With Indoor Navigation Apps

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When it comes to the widespread adoption of indoor positioning and navigation tools among retailers, technology isn’t nearly as big of a barrier as consumer pushback. To help answer the question of how indoor navigation providers should help their clients deal with these issues, we reached out to experts in the industry. Here are their strategies for success…

Street Fight Daily: Foursquare/Yahoo Data Talks, PayPal Tests Face Verification

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… Yahoo, Foursquare in Talks Over Data Partnership (Buzzfeed)…

PayPal Testing Face-Verification System for Mobile Payments (Mashable)…

LocationInsight Becomes Placeable as It Aims to Eradicate Dirty Location Data (Pando Daily)…

Stuck in the Middle: Why Should ‘Local’ Mean ‘San Francisco?’

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I’m pretty well immersed in Dallas’ start-up community, and I’ve noticed a sea change in the last couple years. We may not have the flashy, high-profile buzz-making scene that you’ll find in Silicon Valley (or Alley), but investments are happening. I think that’s partly because we’ve had to make it without the mutli-million dollar seed rounds and gut through on wits and angel investment…

5 Things SMBs Need to Know About Their Customers in the Multiplatform Era

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In a Street Fight webinar Tuesday sponsored by YP, Greg Sterling, a senior analyst with Opus Research and contributing editor at Search Engine Land spoke with Sanjay Sood, YP’s SVP of consumer platforms, about new strategies small businesses can use to get discovered by consumers in the smartphone age…

Transaction Overview: Go Daddy Acquires Locu for $70 Million

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With the acquisition of Locu, Go Daddy is beginning to move beyond its legacy domain registration and web hosting legacy and showing that it has the strategic aptitude and willingness to acquire to provide a more complete solution for local businesses to manage and market themselves. We expect Locu to be a compelling value proposition to Go Daddy’s 11 million customers…

Street Fight Daily: Pay-Per-Gaze Advertising, 17.4% of Global Web Traffic from Mobile

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Google's Sergey Brin wearing Google Glass at New York fashion week.How Pay-Per-Gaze Advertising Could Work With Google Glass (New York Times) … Google and Waze Finally Start Showing Off Each Other’s Tech (VentureBeat) … 17.4% of Global Web Traffic Comes Through Mobile (Mashable) …