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Study Finds New Opportunities For Firms Integrating Ad, Marketing Tech

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As more people use mobile devices in their everyday lives, many tried-and-true techniques for marketing to consumers are becoming less effective, and brands are looking closely at how they can use integrated cross-device solutions to develop deeper connections with customers on a one-to-one basis.

#SFSNYC: How SOCi Ties Local Reputation and Social Media at Scale

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A high volume of reviews and feedback give voice to customer sentiment, especially at a national or global level. The trouble is sorting out how those comments relate to individual store locations, if at all, or if these are responses to specific marketing campaigns.

Street Fight Daily: Apple and Google Spook Publishers, Pinterest Lands $150M for Visual Search

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… As Apple and Google Take Aim at Ads, Publishers Tremble… Pinterest Raises Another $150 Million As It Aims to Conquer Visual Search… Analytics Tools Are Still a Challenge for Many…

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Street Fight Daily: The Gap Geo-Fences, Loopt Sells, Gowalla Shutters

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

Gap Campaign Rethinks Old-School Bus Station Ads (TechCrunch)…

Loopt Sale Shows Future of Location Is Commerce (GigaOm)…

Foursquare Nears 20 Million Users And Crowley Talks About His Co-founder’s Recent Departure (Business Insider)…

Sonar Releases Update, Positions for a Fight

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The default incumbent in the exploding social discovery space has released a substantial update to its iOS app in time for South by Southwest. The upgrade brings a handful of features that debuted with the launch of its Android app on Tuesday – namely, a shift in its user interface from displaying neighboring venues to nearby people on its launch screen…

Court Weighs Dismissal of HuffPo Suit — Implications for Hyperlocals

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A Federal Court in New York City is holding a hearing this afternoon to decide whether it will dismiss a lawsuit filed against the Huffington Post by unpaid writers and contributors who claim they’re entitled to a share of the proceeds from AOL’s 2011 purchase of the news site. The ruling may affect the future of hyperlocal publishers’ relationships with their contributors…

Group Commerce Acquires Dealised’s European Operations

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Group Commerce is headed to Europe. Two days after adding CBS to its roster of clients, the white-label e-commerce company has acquired Dealised’s UK-based European operations for an undisclosed sum, giving the company a strong launching point into the European market…

Marketers Use LBS to Promote Health Awareness — And Remedies

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With location-based services and the Internet, health information, particularly information about disease outbreaks, is now available at your fingertips. And a number of different services are using this location-specific data to inform users — and to target drugmakers’ ads…

Local Quotables: Stangel, Biggs, Hyslop and More

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The best words about and around the hyperlocal industry. Luke Stangel thinks augmented reality development could mean huge things for hyperlocal; John Biggs blasts hot new app Highlight for sharing users’ information without permission; Kate Hyslop reinforces the importances of an online presence for local businesses; and more…

Using Groupon for Customer Acquisition

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Everyone’s heard a horror story about a Groupon deal gone awry, but there’s a reason why daily deals have become so ubiquitous among small-business owners in the last three years. When done right, a targeted Groupon offer can pump up customer acquisition rates and boost immediate sales…

Street Fight Daily: Highlight Updates, Groupon Crushing It, Tippr Layoffs

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

Hot Location-based Networking App Highlight Gets Even More Useful (TNW)…

Chart: Groupon Is Crushing Its Closest Rival (Business Insider)…

Daily Deal Site Tippr Lays Off 25 staffers, Restructures Sales (GeekWire)…

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Locately, Promobomb

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at IBM’s DemandTec dive into location analytics with Locately; Amex and Facebook payments; the YELP! IPO; and Libby Tucker of Promobomb…

Geoloqi’s Amber Case Wants to Simplify LBS App-making

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Case, who is known in other circles as a “cyborg anthropologist,” talked with Street Fight recently about the big issues affecting location-sharing and GPS technology, where Geoloqi fits into the LBS ecosystem, and why geolocation is all about “utility.”