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If the Gym Fits, Reserve It — Startup Makes It Easy to Never Miss a Workout
A bloom of new companies are aggregating gyms and offering single subscriptions to all of them with one “membership.” FitReserve saw the simplicity and convenience in such a program back in 2015 when three co-founders launched to fill what CEO and co-founder Megan Smyth calls a void in the market.
Street Fight Daily: Retailers Test Personalization, Facebook Drives Biz Engagement with Messenger
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… The Tipping Point: Teens Spend More Time on Mobile than Desktop… mParticle Launches Peer-to-Peer Audience Sharing to Make Marketing with Partners Easier… eBay Incorporates Machine Learning to Overhaul Email Marketing Platform…
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Local Quotables: Mutter, Orrick, Rainert, Grubisich, Cocotas and more…
This week in hyperlocal: Positive predictions for Groupon from Barclays Capital; thumbs-down on Yelp from BI Research. Foursquare’s Alex Rainert thinks we should teach code to kids; Alan Mutter foresees a tech buying spree on local in 2012; Street Fight’s Grubisich eyes the Westchester shoot-out; and more:
Street Fight Daily: 12.16.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
Consumers Not Turning to Social Media Sites for Local Business Info (Mashable)…
With Factual, 1 API Now Unlocks Data for 55 Million Places (GigaOm)…
Patch Salesperson Says Company Is Quietly Letting People Go (Business Insider)…
LocalResponse Doubles Staff, Opens Midwest Office
The advertising platform, which enables brands to engage with users around check-ins, is bulking up on personnel and expanding to Chicago in order to focus on Midwest sales.The company also announced that it will be expanding its platform reach in Q1 of 2012 by adding a display ad product as well as by offering larger brands and agencies a self-serve version of its service as a SaaS tool…
Street Fight Daily: 12.15.11
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)…
Street Fight Daily: 12.14.11
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)…
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