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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.”

Time to Take a Deep Breath — Local News Isn’t Becoming ‘Extinct’

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The editors in charge of the slimmed-down newsrooms of local pure-plays know how to leverage technology, data and other information to produce coverage that, in some cases, is superior to what was produced in the so-called “golden” age of print.

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5 Platforms Retailers Can Use for Same-Day Delivery

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Brick-and-mortar retailers that offer same-day delivery options give customers the best of both worlds — letting them support local businesses, without having to get off the couch to do so. Here are five start-ups that local businesses can use for expedited delivery…

Street Fight Daily: PayPal Expands In-Store, Hyperlocal Media Defended

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.PayPal Adds New Retailers For In-Store Payments Product; Tests Order-Ahead Pickup At Jamba Juice (TechCrunch)… Hyperlocal is Deserving of Its Hype (The Guardian)… Scoutmob Finds Surprise Success with Etsy Competitor Shoppe (PandoDaily)…

National Advertisers: Time to Get Local

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“Local” is often thought to be synonymous with SMBs. In many media like television, however, huge portions of the local ad spend is from national brands buying up geographically specific advertising inventory. The same thing is happening in mobile. The projected growth in local mobile ad spending will mostly come from national advertisers that localize campaigns…

Leveraging Converged Media in Local Digital Marketing

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Converged media is a term many local marketers might have heard of but may not be familiar with in terms of digital media environments. Essentially, converged media is the area of overlap between any two of three media types: paid, owned, and earned. This overlap is rich with opportunity and should be a focal point in any local digital marketing program…

Street Fight Daily: Groupon Acquires Glassmap, Google Targets Coupons

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Groupon Acquires Realtime Location-Aware Service Glassmap To Help You Find Deals (TechCrunch)… Google launches Google Launches Zavers, Targeted Digital Coupons with Real-Time Redemption Data for Retailers (The Next Web)… 21 Things I Learned Running Hyperlocal News Sites (Vouchification)

Guns, Money, and a Data-Driven Hyperlocal Wire Service

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A data-driven wire service would — through a cooperative model or other collaborative form of consumption — help pool the costs of complicated technology development and integration across numerous parties while yielding scalable, customizable results. Put the wired in wire service and let the database masters rule the new media universe…

Why Location Is Key to Mobile Monetization

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As location becomes an ever bigger opportunity in mobile, a few questions are worth digging into further. One of those is how precise that location data is. Another important topic is the way success is measured in a local campaign aimed at driving offline actions, whether a call or an in-store visit…

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

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at the state of telematics, “Parking Douche,” and a great campaign from Meat Pack in Guatemala. Plus: M&A and funding activity, the resource of the week and special guest Greg McCalister, co-founder and CEO of PushPoint Mobile…

Street Fight Daily: Mason Fights to Stay, NetSuite Pushes into Local

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Fights to Keep His Job (Bloomberg Businessweek)… NetSuite Buys More Retail Expertise With Retail Anywhere Acquisition (GigaOm)… Streetline Gets $25M to Solve Parking (AllThingsD)…

For 2013, SeeClickFix Moves Beyond Its Pothole-Filling Mission

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Municipalities spend about $10 handling a 311 call about a pothole. SeeClickFix can cut that cost to close to zero by delivering to City Hall, via jaw-rattled citizens, GPS-pinpointed information about new potholes plus digital photos of the road damage. What’s in store for SeeClickFix in 2013? We went to cofounder Ben Berkowitz to find out…