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Street Fight Daily: Facebook Boosts Brick-and-Mortar, Native Google Assistant Integration Coming to Autos

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Facebook Rolls Out a New “Order Food” Option in its Main Navigation… Google Will Integrate Assistant Directly into Next-Gen Cars… Pittsburgh Welcomed Uber’s Driverless Car Experiment. Not Anymore…

How Advancing Location Tech Can Help Revitalize Retail

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Despite fears of the disruption that new business models and technology bring, these are can be opportunities for brands to better understand and engage with consumers, said Cameron Peebles, CMO for inMarket. He shared his company’s insights in a Street Fight webinar yesterday alongside The Integer Group’s group media director, M.K. Woltz.

Raise Report: Cuebiq, Social Native, Territory Pick Up New Funding

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Every two weeks, we round up some of the biggest fundraises taking place in hyperlocal marketing, commerce, and tech. This week’s edition includes funding for Lighthouse AI, Mintigo, Jinn, and Appear Here.

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iPad 3 Predictions: What Will Apple’s New Tablet Mean for Local?

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It’s always hard to foresee the effects that new products will have, but here are five predictions from the people in the industry about how the iPad 3 could impact location technology…

The 5 Most Important Things SMBs Can Do Online

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Taking your local business online doesn’t necessarily mean you’re trying to tap into a massive network of potential new customers. Perhaps that is the endgame for some ambitious entrepreneurs, but for many businesses — especially local and service-based business — the aim is to build and maintain meaningful online and offline relationships at a local level…

Street Fight Daily: 03.07.12

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...

Co-Founder Naveen Selvadurai ‘Tried To Fight’ Departure From Foursquare (Business Insider)…

South by Serendipity (GigaOm)…

INTRO Wants To Be The LinkedIn Of The Ambient Location Apps (TechCrunch)…

5 Can’t-Miss SXSWi Panels for the Local-Obsessed

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There’s plenty of hyperlocal-themed content to be found in the festival’s programming. If you’re into LBS and the evolution of location technology, here’s a rundown of relevant panels you won’t want to miss…

Steve Outing: No One’s Got a ‘Magic Bullet’ for Hyperlocal Revenue

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The founder and program director at the Digital News Test Kitchen at CU-Boulder studies the places where journalism and technology collide. Here he talks with Street Fight about where the concept of hyperlocal has been, where it’s going, and how technology is increasingly impacting how journalists do their job…

5 Platforms for Tracking and Analyzing Customer Habits

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By analyzing check-in data, measuring customer engagement, and tracking overall sentiment on social networking and review sites, these firms help companies get a data-driven view into consumer habits — and ultimately identify their most valuable customers. Here are five platforms that merchants can use to track and analyze this latest wave of consumer information…

Street Fight Daily: 03.06.12

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...

Time Magazine, Foursquare Partner For Political Conventions (PaidContent)…

LBS App Highlight: The Startup Everyone Is Saying Will Win SXSW This Year (Business Insider)…

Newspapers: It’s Not a Revenue Problem, It’s a Culture Problem (GigaOm)…

Co-Founder Naveen Selvadurai Leaving Foursquare

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Just ahead of the third anniversary of foursquare’s launch, co-founder Naveen Selvadurai has announced that he will be transitioning out of the company at the end of the month. Selvadurai will remain on the company’s board, but did not elaborate on his plans for the future…

New ‘Consumer Bill of Rights’ for Mobile Apps — What It Means for LBS

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Following new regulatory pressure over consumer privacy in mobile apps, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and TRUSTe have unveiled ta new “consumer bill of rights” and other products to help mobile app developers provide more transparency to consumers using mobile devices…

UK Location-Based App Uberlife Comes Stateside for SXSW

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Instead of letting users check-in or constantly broadcasting their location, uberlife works like a hybrid between Facebook events and Foursquare. If an uberlife user wants to meet people in their vicinity, they can create a hangout on the app and followers in the nearby area receive a notification about where that user is or is going to be…