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Street Fight Daily: Google Uses Image Search for Retail, Instagram’s Snap Clone Surpasses Snap in Users
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google is Trying to Turn Image Search into a Shopping Tool… Instagram’s Snapchat Clone is Now More Popular than Snapchat… The Weather Company Opens Its Data Trove to Marketers on Outside Platforms…
Yext Shares Up Sharply in Initial Day of Trading, Portending Well for Local
Yext’s shares jumped nearly 22% in the company’s initial day of trading, with the price rising as high as $14.25 per share before settling to $13.41 at close. The strong opening was a hopeful message from Wall Street for the local marketing industry, which has been looking to Yext’s IPO as a bellwether.
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Tap, Tap: Is the NFC Tipping Point Finally Here?
This new technology creates a connection between consumer and retailer like never before. It also creates a world of possibilities for location-based marketing. The use of NFC also benefits retailers by allowing them to analyze consumer patterns more easily, connect with them, and learn what keeps them coming back…
Street Fight Daily: 12.06.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Foursquare Hits 15 Million Users (BetaBeat)…
Gowalla Versus Foursquare: Why Pretty Doesn’t Always Win (TechCrunch)…
Newsday to Hire 25 in Hyperlocal Digital Expansion (Poynter)…
CONFIRMED: Facebook Acquires Gowalla for Undisclosed Sum
The acquisition marks the end of a long slide for the Austin-based company, which seemingly lost its “check-in” battle with Foursquare despite raising over $10 million in venture capital. In September, Gowalla relaunched as a social travel guide after a ten-month period in which the application was overhauled from the ground up…
Can Pandora Do Hyperlocal Ad Sales?
To do hyperlocal, Pandora uses the IP address of the device and maps it back to a location. This is standard geotargeting and other local advertising plays are tapping into the same idea. But the question is whether Pandora can push through with this strategy successfully by priming the sales pump with a local sales force…
Local Quotables: Seth Priebatsch, Chris Dixon, Dan Street and more…
Chris Dixon sends kudos to Foursquare’s latest release; Seth Priebatsch gets excited about the evolution of money as it moves further online; Steve Buttry gets an endorsement; Josh Fenton talks hyperlocal publishing success; and Dan Street describes the evolution of local as “not a search problem.”
Street Fight Daily: 12.02.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Zaarly App Aims to Deliver Customers to Small Businesses (Mashable)…
Groupon’s Exaggerated Deals Will Be Probed By UK Government (PaidContent)…
Mobile Commerce To Hit $6.7B In 2011 (MediaPost)…
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