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Raise Report: New Funding for SOCi, ActionIQ, Chute, Looker
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 Bus.com, JoyRun, Picnic, and Snowflake.
Street Fight Daily: Lyft Raises $500 Million, Facebook’s M Suggests Local Services in Messenger
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber Rival Lyft Raises $500 Million in Funding… The Public Debut of Facebook’s M is a Step Toward a Do-It-All AI Assistant… It’s Time for Google and Facebook to Freak Out About Amazon…
LifeStream’s Personalized News Empowers Users, Protects Their Privacy
The soon-to-launch news service from Graf Mouen and Bill Densmore plans to deliver highly personalized news and other information to consumers, while still maintaining the privacy they don’t currently have on the rest of the Web.
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Street Fight Daily: 09.05.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
GPS navigation services provider TeleNav has completed the acquisition of goby, a local search engine and mobile application developer. goby provides services that allows users to explore events and activities based on location. (M&A Deals)…
Nonprofit news site The Bay Citizen got a jump start to success early in its life with a unique content relationship with The New York Times that provides two pages of local news for the newspaper’s Northern California edition. (NetNewsCheck)…
Why Realtors Are Becoming Hyperlocal Content Producers
Hyperlocal blogging has become a key part of the real estate agent’s marketing arsenal. Real estate network Active Rain boasts over 200,000 blogger signups, and created a separate arena called Localism devoted to community blogging…
WaPo’s Suburban Newsrooms: Let the Walls Come Tumbling Down
The shuttering of the Washington Post’s suburban newsrooms shouldn’t be a sad moment at all. It should be an occasion for the Post to let to its staff and the world know that not only is it not retrenching but it is expanding its commitment to the greater Washington community…
Rethinking Hyperlocal: Not Just a Paper, Not an Address
The Washington Post’s decision to close most of its regional bureaus makes a tremendous amount of sense and moves us further along the continuum towards a new reality when the news doesn’t have an office and hyperlocal is also hypermobile. In fact, I’d venture to say that real estate is something that the traditional dailies should ditch, pronto, as part of their transition into a new kind of news organization…
Facebook’s Life After Deals
The best or biggest deal, assertion, investment or other strategy this week. Who: Facebook What: Taking another approach to location-based services Just a week after it said it would abandon its location-based service Places in favor of a new strategy, Facebook announced that it was getting out of the deals business. Facebook Deals was only around […]
Street Fight Daily: 09.02.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
While Yelp’s daily deal segment got off to a strong start, things have been getting worse ever since. So, what happened? Over the last 6 months, Yelp has been generating less and less revenue per deal as competition in the space heated up. (Yipit Blog)…
The Washington Post has decided to let the leases lapse on all but two of its local bureaus. Beginning next year, the Post has decided to end the leases on four offices in Virginia and three offices in Maryland. (Politico)…
Ex-NYC Deputy Mayor: Hyperlocals Should Help Citizens ‘March on City Hall’
Journalism and community are rapidly converging in the hyperlocal space. But the big missing piece is meaningful participation by local government. Mayors, city and town managers and other local public officials may have Twitter accounts or Facebook pages, but too often they’re used for carefully managed image messages–not for joining citizens in serious problem solving. Stephen […]
Street Fight Daily: 09.01.11
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal media, technology, advertising and startups...
If a private equity firm buys AOL and chops it up to sell off the parts — as is being rumored — Henry Blodget thinks Patch will be “toast.” (Business Insider)…
“While it’s easy to get into the daily deal marketplace it’s much harder to grow and sustain a daily deal business,” says Mary Song, CEO of Yuupon. (WebProNews)…
What Motivates Yelp’s Power Users?
In an effort to dig a little deeper into what motivates Elite Squad-ers and other active Yelp users — beyond the free beer and crudités — Street Fight spoke with three power users who approach the service with differing goals in mind, but all of whom view Yelp as an integral part of their decision-making process.
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