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Street Fight Daily: Microsoft & Amazon Integrate Cortana/Alexa, USA Today Personalizes Homepage
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… In Surprising Move, Microsoft and Amazon Integrate Voice Assistants… USA Today’s Facebook-Like, Personalized Mobile Site Succeeds in Grabbing User Attention… For New Uber CEO, Fresh Challenges Already Emerge…
Captivate Adds Content Partners in Push for a 360-Degree Ad Solution
The company has 12 new content providers joining its digital place-based media network target consumers on screens in thousands of building elevators and lobbies across the U.S. The partners include Vox Media, Bloomberg, Billboard, Quartz, and The Hollywood Reporter, as well as Stadium sports video content.
Hearst’s Barrett on Talks With Facebook: Progress, but More Needs to Happen
The president of Hearst Newspapers Digital Media, details what he sees as the current promise of Facebook’s nascent effort to promote subscriptions for local news publishers, and assesses the state of other major, yet-to-be-resolved issues for the publishers as they weigh their future on and with the tech giant.
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SFD: DNAinfo.com Heads to Chicago, Slow Adoption of Mobile Payments
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...
Hyperlocal News Site DNAinfo.com Readies November Launch in Chicago (Crain’s Chicago Business)…
Mobile Payments: A Solution in Search of a Problem? (CNET)…
Google’s Woes Show Mobile Isn’t Just a Facebook Problem (Wired)…
True Innovation in Local News Organizations Still Lacking
News sites need to innovate around their core competencies by spending time understanding their customers (advertisers and consumers) and what problems they can solve for them. The solutions should be a good fit for the organization and should be something that they are uniquely positioned in the marketplace to provide…
Broadcastr’s Lindenbaum on ‘Putting the Web Back Into the World’
“The expectation for discovery of content is one that continues to rise,” says the company’s co-founder. “At a certain point people are expecting content that is perfect for them to just already be there for them. So, the more factors we can take into consideration in order to deliver on those expectations, the better we’re going to be. Location is one of those things”
Openings & New Hires at Constant Contact, Facebook, Groupon & More
Ever more personnel changes at Groupon, a new hire at Constant Contact, plus shifts across the industry in business development, sales and product management. On the move this week: Dalip Tyagi, Shagun Vatsa, Joshua Scherman, Sean Smyth, and more. Openings at Yext, Yahoo, Ebay, LinkedIn, Manta and more…
Street Fight Daily: Patch To Profit in 2014, Google Expands Promotions
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… 
AOL’s Patch ‘in Line to Make a Profit’ (The Guardian)… Google Launches Promotions On Google Shopping, Enables Distribution To Google Offers & Maps On Android, Too (TechCrunch)… The Future Of Location-Based Marketing Isn’t Foursquare (Marketing Land)…
Sac Press’s Ilfeld: More Talk About Reader Revenue at Hyperlocals
Two major online news industry conferences were held recently — BxB Summit 2012 in Chicago and ONA12 in San Francisco. I asked Ben Ilfeld, COO of the Sacramento Press and an inveterate news industry conference goer who was a participant at both meetings, for his take on what took place at both…
Placecast Launches Card-Linked ShopAlerts for Smarter Geofencing
A new product from Placecast hopes to change the way you receive mobile discount offers. The company is launching a new “Card-Linked ShopAlerts” service that uses new technology to combine location, retailer, and credit card information to give consumers discounts at local stores and chains such as Starbucks, L’Oreal, and The North Face…
Transaction Overview: Telenav Acquires ThinkNear
ThinkNear provides Telenav with a product that can drive near-term advertising revenue and is well suited to be integrated with Telenav’s turn-by-turn direction capability. The ThinkNear team and their mobile advertising knowhow are also an important addition to Telenav’s engineering and product organizations…
Street Fight Daily: Shopkick Rebuilds App, LocalVox Raises $7.4M
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Shopkick Totally Recreates Its Shopping App. Gamification Out, Design and Content In (Pando Daily)… LocalVox Raises $7.4M for One-Stop Shop for Local Marketing (GigaOm)… Buy Reviews on Yelp, Get Black Mark (New York Times)…
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