Street Fight Daily: Samwer Out at Groupon, Local Online Ad Spending Hot

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce and technology...

Marc Samwer Out as Groupon’s International Boss (GigaOm)…

Local Online Ad Spending Is Red Hot Again (Media Life)…

Study: Most Adults Follow Local News Closely (Pew Internet)…

BiteHunter Launches In-App Payments for Restaurant Deals

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BiteHunter, the year-old dining deals aggregator pitched as a “Kayak for restaurants,” has updated its mobile application with an in-app payment platform and a rehashed user interface. In early March, the company effectively dropped its web offering, focusing its product exclusively on the mobile experience…

Street Fight Daily: 12.07.11

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Google+ To Take On Foursquare With Upcoming ‘Check-in Offers’ Feature (TechCrunch)

Only 5% of Adults Use Location-Based Checkin Apps (Mashable)

Mobile Dining Apps LocalEats & BiteHunter Announce Partnership (TechCrunch)

Street Fight Daily: 11.10.11

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News Futurists DNAinfo Expanding to NYC’s Outer Boroughs and Chicago (New York Observer)
DNAinfo, a neighborhood-centric Manhattan news start-up, will expand to all five boroughs in early 2012. After rolling across New York City, the company will begin national expansion, starting in Chicago and hiring about 30 reporters total…

Rumor: LivingSocial & Groupon Looking to Acquire SCVNGR (BostInnovation)
Gregory Gomer: For the past few weeks, we have heard rumblings that both LivingSocial and Groupon are interested in acquiring SCVNGR, and that the options are currently being evaluated by SCVNGR’s top level execs and board of directors…

BiteHunter CEO: Learning From Kayak

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BiteHunter launched amid the height of deal mania this Spring, as an aggregator for dining deals. With the June launch of its iPhone application and subsequent addition of instant deals to the mobile product last week, the company has grown into a real-time search engine for dining deals. Street Fight recently spoke with the company’s CEO, Gil Harel, a veteran in the dining vertical, about the aggregation industry and the variable future of the deals space…

Street Fight Daily: 10.11.11

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Microsoft appears to be readying the formal launch of a Bing-branded daily deals website powered by white-label group buying platform service provider Tippr. This offering is notably different from Microsoft’s earlier launch of Bing Deals, which basically features links to aggregated deals from a number of partners. (TechCrunch)…

The daily deal industry has jolted a formerly sleepy corner of the $30 billion online advertising market: the local part of the paid search marketing business. Local search ads that included references to towns and cities were not in demand until daily deal companies started paying handsomely to track down people interested in neighborhood goods and services. (Reuters)…

Street Fight Daily: 04.19.11

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Groupon is buying Pelago, maker of local discovery app Whrrl, in a bid to improve its ability to bring together consumers and local discount offers. This could also mean a broader direction for Groupon as it looks to expand beyond daily deals to more mobile and personalized discounts. (GigaOm)…

LocalResponse is a “social advertising platform” that lets small businesses sift through the stream of public check-in and review data to see who their most loyal customers are, and send them coupons and messages on Twitter. (NYT/Bits)…

Foursquare has added a feature that will bring some context to your historical check-ins. Now, when users look back at their check-ins, they won’t see only their pictures, but also pictures taken by friends who were also checked in at the event. (ReadWriteWeb)…