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Street Fight Daily: Apple Innovates on Marketing AI, Facebook Makes a Case Against TV Ads

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Apple Accelerates AI for Marketers… Facebook Says Users Turn to the Platform During Commercial Breaks When Watching TV… Snapchat versus Instagram: What Marketers Need to Know…

#SFSNYC: Drawing the Connection Between Online Presence and In-Store Sales

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More and more, businesses need to stay on top of their digital presences, which extend well beyond their company websites. The variety of outlets where people can discuss their impressions of a brand continues to expand says Elisabeth Kurek, uberall’s vice president of partner growth, who will speak at next week’s Street Fight Summit in Brooklyn.

Street Fight Daily: Facebook Expands Ad Suite for Businesses, Google Shopping’s Role in Retail

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Facebook Expands Canvas Ads and Integrates Them with Collection Ads… How Google Shopping Can Help Retailers Bounce Back… The Future of Marketing Data: Accuracy Trumps Everything…

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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.”

Can Long-Tail E-Books Give New Life to Old News?

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Hyperlocal news sites often publish revealing stories about what makes their communities tick or that capture the uniqueness of their character. Can those stories – which routinely disappear into archives – find new life as e-books?

6 Deal Platforms For Targeting Upscale Customers

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As businesses continue to search for ways to target the type of clientele that can afford to pay full-price for their products and services, more and more are turning toward deal platforms with “upscale” and “affluent” subscribers as a solution…

Street Fight Daily: 03.08.12

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

Facebook Becomes Location Backbone That Lets Apps Import Checkins From Each Other (Street Fight)…

Will Ambient Social Location Apps Be Consumer Duds? (ReadWriteWeb)…

AOL Patch Sales People Reportedly Being Fired (Business Insider)…

2012 Election to Drive $9.8 Billion in Ads, Online Share Growing

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Campaigns, fueled in large part by Super PAC money, will spend a whopping $9.8 billion on political ads this year, according to Borrell Associates. That’s up from $7 billion in 2008. Online advertising, although still a small chunk of the business, will increase more than 615% between 2008 and 2012 to $160 million.

AmEx + Twitter Could Equal Huge Opportunity for Local Businesses

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American Express just taken another major step into local. The credit card company has partnered with Twitter to create a program that allows consumers to receive discounts directly applied to their accounts — all for the price of a single hashtag in a single tweet (after a quick, one-time visit to AmEx’s website to sync a card)…

The Myth of the Digitally Dumb Mom-and-Pop Shop

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An old sawhorse of the punditocracy is that one of the reasons hyperlocal is taking off so slowly in terms of advertising revenues is due to the digital noobieness of local merchants. Journalists love to trot out stories reminding the world that X-percent of mom-and-pop shops still don’t even have a Web site. But are these peeps really trapped in the dark ages?

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…