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Street Culture: A Look at the Culture of a Team Within a Team at conichiwa

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A spinoff company from a larger mothership might already have culture built in. At Conichiwa, a Berlin-based proximity agency and beacon company, that’s not quite what is happening.

Street Fight Daily: Uber Launches In-App Tipping, Study Finds Email Still Best for ROI

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber Launches In-App Tipping Feature in Over 100 Cities… Email Still the King of ROI, Says DMA… You Can Now Reply to Instagram Stories with Photo and Video…

Freckle IoT Inks Global Partnership with Cisco

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Freckle IoT has announced a global partnership with Cisco, allowing the in-store attribution vendor to leverage Cisco’s Meraki access points and more efficiently tie brand advertising campaigns to offline visits on a global scale. As part of the new partnership, Freckle will be a member of Cisco’s Solution Partner Program.

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How Location-Based Services Are Reinventing Radio

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Local radio offers an ideal platform for the delivery of location-based services. Many digital radio technologies are already being used to collect information about users and disseminate target ads. Radio has reached a turning point according to Pandora founder Tim Westergren: “At the core of that transformation is personalization.”

Street Fight Daily: ‘Local Consumer,’ Curley Leaves Las Vegas Sun

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...

After Strong Quarter, Groupon Starts Looking Like a Deal Again (AllThingsD)…

Rob Curley Leaves Las Vegas Sun (Poynter)…

Understand the ‘Local Consumer,’ and You’ll Understand How to Serve SMBs (VentureBeat)…

Factual Adds Context to Location With New API

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Factual has added deeper analytics to its compendium of location data services with the release of its new Geopulse API this morning. The API enables developers to retrieve contextual information — commercial profiles and density scores as well as demographic indicators like age, gender, and median income — for a given location across Factual’s 50-country reach.

5 Tools Hyperlocal Publishers Can Use to Improve Online Ad Sales

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Salespeople from hyperlocal publications are increasingly turning to turnkey ad platforms in an effort to simplify the process of selling and creating display ads for small business owners. Here are five platforms that publishers are using to streamline the sales process when working with small business advertisers.

BIA/Kelsey: Local Social Spend to Increase 270% by 2016

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Local social advertising revenues are set to nearly quadruple (3.7x) over the next five years, according to a new study by BIA/Kelsey. The report projects that local spending on social networks will jump from $840 million in 2011 to $1.2 billion in 2012, reaching $3.1 billion in 2016…

Street Fight Daily: Groupon Revenues Up, AmEx App Serves Deals

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...

Sharp Revenue Increase for Groupon Gives Stock a Boost (Chicago Tribune)…

AmEx App to Blast Daily Deals Based on Your Payment History (Mashable)…

With Smartphone-Assisted Shopping, How You Shop Depends On Where You Shop (TechCrunch)…

How Buddy Media Uses Facebook to Drive Local Customers Into Stores

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Co-founder and chief strategy officer Jeff Ragovin spoke with Street Fight recently about the growing opportunity that social media represents, how the company helped L’Oreal drive revenue to local salons, and the importance of language…

Judge Suggests Some, But Not All, Bloggers Qualify as ‘Journalists’ Under Law

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Perhaps hyperlocal bloggers are journalists after all. Federal Judge Marcos Hernandez in Oregon ruled last November that a self-proclaimed “investigative blogger” was not a journalist for purposes of Oregon’s shield law. But Hernandez has issued another opinion in the same case, responding to the criticism by explaining “I did not state that a person who ‘blogs’ could never be considered ‘media.'”

Street Fight Daily: Journatic CEO, PayPal Data, Geofeedia

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...

Pew Study: 18% Of U.S. Smartphone Owners Use Check-In Apps (TechCrunch)…

Journatic CEO: Efficiencies Make Hyperlocal Work (NetNewsCheck)…

PayPal’s Key to Winning Mobile Payments: Data (GigaOm)…

Should SMBs Get Into Content Marketing?

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Small businesses need to think like the brands they are. They should follow the same protocol now being established by content marketers: create a portfolio of content; use the new distribution channels and social media to get the word out; and learn how to curate….