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SMB Index: Local Stocks Up 5.4% in May

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The SCP SMB Index climbed 5.4% in May. The Nasdaq was up 2.6%, while the S&P 500 was up 1%, and Dow Jones was flat, gaining 0.2%. Four of the top five constituents in the index continued to experience stock price gains after April, which saw all five companies gain in value.

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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)…

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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.

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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…

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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)…

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PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Groupon, Banjo

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at Groupon’s recent acquisitions, Google’s launch of a product fit for 2008, Toyota going extreme in Belgium, Caterina Fake’s Pinwheel and a report that shows the futility of mobile ad display + Banjo founder Damien Patton…

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Yelp Sets Share Price at $15 for Friday IPO

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Though Yelp’s SEC-sanctioned “quiet period” has seen less criticism than Groupon endured, many analysts remain unconvinced that Yelp’s model can continue the rapid growth achieved over the past few years. What concerns many critics is less the company’s lack of profitability and more the direction in which its losses are heading…

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Media Surveys Give Hyperlocals Short Shrift

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What’s needed is a survey that’s as thorough as Pew’s but which is confined to those communities with at least one credible independent site as well as a network site — like a Patch or Main Street Connect outlet — and at least one “legacy” (newspaper or local TV) site…

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