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Local Media Consortium Not About to Retreat From Its Google and Facebook Ties
Questions are being raised about whether news publishers should keep expanding their relationships with Google and Facebook, and even whether they should pull out altogether. But you don’t hear that talk from the Local Media Consortium, which represents more than 70 newspaper, broadcasting and other local media companies.
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Street Fight Daily: Location’s Dirty Secret, Yelp Explains Filter
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Street Fight Daily: Location Gains in Mobile, TD Bank Gets Hyperlocal
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YP brings on a heavyweight from AOL, Clear Channel and others to head up its national markets group. CBS Local poaches from CityGrid. There’s activity in the U.K. at Discount Vouchers and Shopitize. Plus there are openings at Yelp, Facebook, SinglePlatform, LivingSocial, Google, and more…
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