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LBMA Podcast: Denny’s, Ubimo, Ikea, GasBuddy

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This Week in Location Based Marketing is a weekly video podcast from the Location Based Marketing Association with Asif Khan and Aubriana Lopez. On the show: Ubimo, Verizon + Snapchat, Stratacache buys Walkbase, Ikea acquires TaskRabbit, CDecaux, American Airlines.

Street Fight Daily: Walmart Touts Free Shipping Ahead of Holidays, Amazon Dominates Server-to-Server

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Walmart to Emphasize Free Shipping, Dig at Amazon, In Pre-Holidays Campaigns… Amazon Is Dominating Server-to-Server Bidding… London Mayor Praises Uber CEO’s ‘Humility’ Regarding London Ban…

Why Brand Success Is About Unique Experiences and Community (And a Massive Audience)

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“Look at Amazon versus Walmart,” says GGV Capital’s Hans Tung.. “Amazon innovated much faster than Walmart. The way they approach things to make things happen fast, iterate, make changes, do a quick test, change again, test again, change again – that kind of speed is what we look for.”

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Street Fight Daily: Group Commerce Layoffs, Mayer Talks Location

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Group Commerce Has Laid Off 28% Of Its Staff (Business Insider)… Is Foursquare on Marissa Mayer’s Silicon Alley Shopping List? (BetaBeat)… Keith Rabois Talks About Sexual Harassment Claim, Becoming a “Distraction” at Square and What’s Next (AllThingsD)…

Can Foursquare Get Its Mojo Back by Embracing ‘Passive’ Check-Ins?

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Does Foursquare need to be “fun” anymore? I’d say no. “Fun” means fighting an ever-diminishing battle over consumer mindshare on mobile — a fight Foursquare is losing. It’s also contrary to what Foursquare is trying to build with its Explore functionality…

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Lumi Mobile

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at Google’s moves with Zavers and Fieldtrip. They also touch on payments companies PayPal and GoBank and examine RedStripe’s latest local initiative. Plus special guest Dan Foreman of Lumi Mobile talks the death of surveys…

Street Fight Daily: Square COO Departs, Hyperlocal Investment in 2013

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Square COO Keith Rabois Departs Company (AllThingsD)… Mobile, Local & Search: 5 Sources of Innovation & Investment in 2013 (Search Engine Watch)… Why the Department Store Experience Needs a Serious Upgrade, Too (Venture Beat)…

The Big Implications for Local in Facebook’s New Graph Search

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Given that Facebook is using multiple individualized cues to return search results that are customized for you, traditional SEO — already threatened by Google’s moves toward personalization — will be close to meaningless in the new context of Graph Search…

Under a Bushel in Bay Area, a Model for Hyperlocal

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Redoubtable hyperlocal editor Tracy Record, who told me about Claycord.com, described it in her inimitable way: “When I stumbled onto it recently, it made me cry. It is so much like what we do, down to the community’s comments and involvement.” To find out more about the site, I posed a variety of questions to its founder, editor, and publisher…

Street Fight Daily: Radius Scores $12.4M, Retailer Spend on Mobile Doubles

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Local Business Sales Intelligence Platform Radius Raises $12.4M From American Express And Others (TechCrunch)… Retailers to Ring Up Sales Via Mobile (The Wall Street Journal)… Indoor Venues Are The Next Frontier For Location-Based Services (Forbes)…

Apple May Have the Hardware, But Google’s Winning Hyperlocal

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The hyperlocal interface will overwhelmingly revolve around a mobile experience with advertising and commerce tied to location and in-the-moment activities or sentiments. By ceding that real estate to Google with a sub-par user interface and experience, Apple is handicapping its future efforts to earn a significant chunk of that market…

Case Study: Texas Roadhouse Goes Local on Facebook

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Rather than creating a single Facebook page to serve as a hub for all 300 plus Texas Roadhouse locations, Dave Dodson and his team have created local Facebook pages for each restaurant in the national chain. Dodson says people are more likely to be engaged with local pages, leading to an increase in comments, likes, and photo submissions on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Foursquare…

Street Fight Daily: Nextdoor’s Use Case, GroSocial Acquired

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Nextdoor’s Unexpected Killer Use Case: Crime and Safety (PandoDaily)… Fresh From Its $54M Raise, Infusionsoft Acquires GroSocial, The “Buddy Media For SMBs,” To Expand Into Social Marketing (TechCrunch)… Five Hyper-Local Marketing Trends to Take the Street Fight to the Next Level (AdAge)…