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If the Gym Fits, Reserve It — Startup Makes It Easy to Never Miss a Workout

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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

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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…

Facebook Looking for More Consumers to Chat With Businesses on Messenger

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At the Collision conference in New Orleans on Tuesday, Facebook’s head of product for Messenger, Stan Chudnovsky, spoke with Recode’s Kurt Wagner about how the company is trying to unite the messaging app’s 1.2 billion users with the 60 million businesses in the Facebook ecosystem.

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Hyperlocal Has Cracked ‘Local’ and ‘Now’ — Sosh Now Looks to Target Intent

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Because it is intentional and transactional in nature, Sosh is probably more likely to see responses akin to search engine advertising, where people who are there know what they want and are ready to buy. And that could be a particularly excellent venue for local advertisers…

Local Quotables: Mutter, Orrick, Rainert, Grubisich, Cocotas and more…

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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:

PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Fondu CEO & More

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In this episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan discuss Home Depot’s campaign with Pandora, Rogers entering the daily deals business in Canada, MojoStreet, and Schemer. This week’s special guest is Gauri Manglik, CEO of Fondu…

Street Fight Daily: 12.16.11

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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

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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…

Westchester’s Hyperlocal News Market Is a Four-Sided Shootout

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Prestigious, affluent Westchester County, just north of New York City, is on the verge of becoming a hyperlocal version of the Gunfight at OK Corral – squared. Within months, four major-media companies will be competing community by community for dominance in this prized media market…

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)…