Street Fight Daily: Yelp Launches Now, Local TV’s Jackpot
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Yelp Ups Its Search Game With “Yelp Now”: Adds Dinner Reservation & Food Ordering Search Filters (Search Engine Land)… Jackpots for Local TV Stations in F.C.C. Auction of Airwaves (New York Times)… Square’s Jack Dorsey Puts It All Together (BuzzFeed)…
Street Fight Daily: Square Reportedly Postpones IPO, Apple Brings iOS to the Car
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Square IPO Postponed Indefinitely (Fox Business)… Apple to Bring iPhone Software to Cars (Wall Street Journal)… Google ‘Map Jacking’ is Rampant, a Threat to Public Safety (Komo News)…
Street Fight Daily: Google+ Local, AmEx and Foursquare, Mary Meeker
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...
Google Looks To One-Up Facebook With Google+ Local (TechCrunch)…
Battle Heats Up Over Mobile Payments (Wall Street Journal)…
New Web App Unsubscribes You From Daily Deals Emails (BetaBeat)…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon Revenues Up, AmEx App Serves Deals
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...
Sharp Revenue Increase for Groupon Gives Stock a Boost (Chicago Tribune)…
AmEx App to Blast Daily Deals Based on Your Payment History (Mashable)…
With Smartphone-Assisted Shopping, How You Shop Depends On Where You Shop (TechCrunch)…
PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — PayPal, WirelessWerx
In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan discuss Kevin Rose’s flight to Google, PayPal’s response to Square with a triangle, Amex and Twitter saved $1.7 Million at McDonald’s, the state of the local mobile transaction scene, and special guest Patrick Blattner, Chief Product Office at WirelessWerx…
AmEx + Twitter Could Equal Huge Opportunity for Local Businesses
American Express just taken another major step into local. The credit card company has partnered with Twitter to create a program that allows consumers to receive discounts directly applied to their accounts — all for the price of a single hashtag in a single tweet (after a quick, one-time visit to AmEx’s website to sync a card)…
PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Amex, Pressly
In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at Twitter’s partnership with Amex on sponsored local tweets; mobile apps for civil engagement; the Sony XPERIA awesomeness that was their “Defy the Darkness” campaign; and Glamour’s Shoppable Wall. Plus special guest Jeff Brenner, CEO of Pressly…
LBMA Vidcast: 7-Eleven Launches Mobile Voice Ordering, Adidas Tests AR Instagram
On this week’s Location-Based Marketing Association podcast: 7-Eleven launching mobile voice ordering, Adidas testing AR Instagram in London, Amex launching a mobile restaurant booking app, Augmented Reality wine labeling with Winerytale app, Toys R Us first in Canada to use Snapchats Portal Lens, and Factual introducing predictive & loyalty audiences.