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Raise Report: DemandBase, G2 Crowd, People.ai Score 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 Frichti, Bulletin, StreamSets, and Julie Desk.

Street Fight Daily: Apple Manufacturing ‘Smart Home’ Speaker, Blue Apron Files for IPO

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… For Smart Home Speakers, a Possible New Competitor… Blue Apron Delivers $100 Million IPO Filing… Uber Says It Just Noticed Error on Pay, But It Was No Secret…

How Legacy Retailers Are Infusing Tech Into Brick-and-Mortar

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Many brick-and-mortar retailers are finding more ways to integrate in-store experiences and ecommerce into their offerings — both to offset brick-and-mortar declines and to drive more foot traffic into their stores. It is a redefinition of a retail revolution that still has fighting power for the old retail guard.

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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…

Using LevelUp To Build Brand Loyalty

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Forget the paper punch cards and plastic key fobs that most people associate with small business rewards programs. In an effort to grab the attention of customers and promote true brand loyalty, today’s SMBs are looking for digital alternatives. LevelUp, the mobile-payments-meets-loyalty program, has quickly become the frontrunner in this race…

Street Fight Daily: 03.05.12

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

Yelp is worth $1.5 billion… Now what? (GigaOm)…

How Newspapers Are Faring Trying to Build Digital Revenue (Pew Research)…

Square’s Register and the Return of the Mom-and-Pop Shop (GigaOm)…

Local Quotables: Doctor, Kurzweil, Millard and more

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The best words about and around the hyperlocal industry.

Ken Doctor thinks New Corp can’t go local with their business model; Jordan Kurzweil thinks the demand for local news is less than people think; Amy Millard says that local businesses have more Facebook interaction than their corporate counterparts; and more.

Get Place-based Reminders Where and When They Matter

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Location-based reminders function similarly to regular reminders – but rather than being reminded at a specific time, the reminder comes when you are at a specific location…

Street Fight Daily: 03.02.12

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

LivingSocial to Launch Its First Credit Card (Reuters)…

How LevelUp Is Taking a Page From Starbucks (GigaOm)…

10 Things to Know About Location Right Now (Ad Age)…