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Street Fight Rolls Out Analyst Hours with Local Merchant Report

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The report—a key franchise for us—has regularly served as a guidepost for vendors seeking to expand their reach into this market. What’s been missing? A way to tie the data directly to a vendor’s business. So for the first time, we’re offering time with the report’s author, Street Fight director of research, David Card, to discuss the report’s findings directly.

Street Fight Daily: Twitter Launches 24/7 News Service with Bloomberg, Uber Boosts Data Privacy

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Twitter to Launch 24/7 News Streaming Service with Bloomberg… Uber Beefs Up Privacy Controls Amid Data Use Controversy… Now That It Knows Who’s Talking, Google Home Might Reach Its Potential…

Study: 55% of Mall Shoppers Would Shop at an Online Retailer’s Brick-and-Mortar Store

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Online retailers like Warby Parker and Bonobos have been experimenting for years with pop-up stores and actual brick-and-mortar locations. This phenomenon was the subject of a recent study conducted by ChargeItSpot, which provides cell phone charging stations for retailers and events.

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Street Fight Daily: 12.15.11

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

EBay’s PayPal Counts on Its 103 Million Users to Target Groupon (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)…

Examiner.com Will Provide Content For CBS Local Digital Media (PaidContent)…

NBC Maps the 2012 Election Campaign Trail With Foursquare (Mashable)…

Web Freedom Groups Call on Publishers to Oppose SOPA

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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Mozilla Foundation, and other online groups are calling on hyperlocal news publishers and other online developers to oppose the “Stop Online Piracy Act” in advance of tomorrow’s markup session on the bill before the House Judiciary Committee…

Aggregating Information From the Urban Landscape, Business by Business

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Street Fight recently caught up with with CityMaps co-founder and president Aaron Rudenstine to learn more about how the service differentiates itself from classic mapping sites, and why aggregating traditional place information against the social graph is so valuable.

Street Fight Daily: 12.14.11

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

TaskRabbit Picks Up $17.8M — And a Vote of Confidence for the Do-It-For-Me Economy (Betabeat)…

How Fast Is Local Ad Market Growing? Depends How You Define ‘Local’ (PaidContent)…

Digital Giants Closing in on Local Media (Reflections of a Newsosaur)…

The Great Indoors: The Future of Indoor Location & Advertising

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The “shopping experience” is something retailers have been perfecting for decades. Product placement and drive aisle concepts are designed to entice consumers and draw them to the best deals that will keep them coming back. But, what if we could take these concepts a step further with location-based marketing?

PlaceIQ Announces 4.2 Million in Funding

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PlaceIQ, the hyperlocal data company that builds audience profiles for 100-meter tiles across major metropolitan centers, has raised $4.2 million dollars in series A funding. The Boulder-based company will also be relocating to New York, in order to be closer to “customers, partners, and the general ecosystem”…

Case Study: CKE’s Own Check-In App Lends Accountability and Control

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How does a restaurant group with 3,000 locations spread across 43 states manage a robust location-based rewards program without sacrificing functionality or flexibility? For Brad Rosenberg, manager of digital strategy and marketing for CKE Restaurants — which owns the Carl’s Jr. and Hardee’s fast-food chains — the answer was to build a mobile app that could work across multiple point-of-sale systems and still provide the accountability that individual franchise owners require…

Street Fight Daily: 12.13.11

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

Gowalla Went For $3M In Facebook Shares, And Many Investors Were Cool With That (TechCrunch)

When It Comes to Mobile Devices, Focus Will Be on Location, Location, Location (Washington Post)

Guardian’s n0tice Will Pay Citizen Moderators (ReadWriteWeb)

Is New Anti-Piracy Bill Less of a Threat to Hyperlocals?

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A new alternative anti-piracy bill being floated by two congressmen holds less risk for hyperlocal news publishers, because it does not give a rights owners an immediate, fast solution to blacklist a site…

What Works in One Local Market Won’t Necessarily Work in Another

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I’ve learned, sometimes through epic failures, what works in Tracy (a suburb of Sacramento, Calif.) won’t work in Tampa. However, I’ve also learned, through epic victories, that when you harness the power of 200+ communities for a common goal great things can happen. Here are a few bits of wisdom I’ve picked up along the way.