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Street Fight Daily: Voice-Enabled Speaker Usage to Grow 130% in 2017, TripAdvisor Partners With GrubHub

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Voice-Enabled Speaker Usage to Grow Nearly 130% This Year… TripAdvisor Embraces Online Food Delivery with GrubHub Integration… As IPOs Pick Up, Big Startups Hold Out…

Openings and New Hires at Buzzboard, inMarket, and SITO Mobile

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Every two weeks, Geoff Michener covers some of the latest job changes taking place in this dynamic industry. This week’s edition includes moves and new openings at Ninth Decimal, Netsertive, and Instacart.

Raise Report: Sense360, Yieldify, Heap Secure 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 LoveCrafts, Orbital Insight, Bonsai, and Farmdrop.

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Using LBS to Find Jobs and Workers

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The unemployment rate is dropping — a little. At 8.6%, there are still a lot of people out of work. Meanwhile, employers are still hiring. If leveraged properly, location-based services can offer the extra boost that helps job seekers and employers make a connection and find the right fit.

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Zaarly’s Eric Koester, Layar & BrightKite

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In this episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan discuss BrightKite’s demise, Layar’s enhanced yellow sticky pad, Hallmark’s move to feature Billy Ray Cyrus via QR code. Plus a special interview with Zaarly’s Eric Koester…

Street Fight Daily: 01.03.12

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

AOL’s Armstrong Touts Patch Growth in Year-End Company Memo (Capital New York)…

Uninsured Turn to Daily Deal Sites for Health Care (Associated Press)…

Real Estate Agents Look Beyond the Check-in (Inman)…

Lucky Ant Launches, Extending Kickstarter-style Crowdfunding to Local Merchants

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The hyperlocal funding platform, launched earlier today, gives small businesses a way to raise money from the communities around them for specific improvement projects — while simultaneously forging deeper bonds with customers and promoting loyalty…

How Groupon Will Expand in 2012

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As Groupon matures, its path will doubtless expand beyond its core product. Perhaps that’s why I have such a hard time keeping a straight face when people say that Groupon’s model for daily deals is fundamentally broken. It’s not. If anything, their second act has the potential to be even bigger than their first…

Street Fight Daily: 01.02.12

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

Ex-AOL Salesman: Here’s How To Save Patch (Business Insider)…

Foursquare’s Claim to Fame, the Check-in, Could Become Its Downfall (VentureBeat)…

SEC Pressed Groupon on Accounting (New York Times)…

Street Fight’s 10 Most Popular Stories of 2011

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From Patch antics to Gannett’s Deal Chicken to a Flipboard hyperlocal how-to, here’s a look back at some of the Street Fight stories that really touched a nerve (at least as far as pageviews go) during our 8 1/2-month run. Hope you all have a happy new year, and we look forward to bringing you more great content, research, and events about sustainable hyperlocal business models in 2012!

Street Fight Staff and Friends Predict 2012’s Top Stories

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Earlier this week, some top hyperlocal luminaries weighed in with their predictions for what we can expect to see in the coming year. Today we’ve asked Street Fight’s writers and editors — as well as a few friends who regularly cover hyperlocal media— to submit their own prognostications…

Hyperlocal in 2012: More Consolidation and Scale, Less ‘Free’

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What it comes down to is that hyperlocal companies like Foursquare and Groupon, despite their “hyperlocal” raison d’etre, need scale to bring an effective proposition to merchants and big brands. Scale helps, even if that just means a larger audience within a metro area or even a single neighborhood…

From Deep Data to Human Help, 2012 Continues the Local Revolution

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I think I’ll forego predictions I would have made based on iterations that got us to this point in 2011. I’d rather take a broader view with some thoughts that are as much attached to the local past as to the future…