How Big Is the Promise of Local AR (And When Can We Expect It)?

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Real execution will require an extensive value chain. And that’s why location data will be increasingly valuable in an AR-driven world. Specifically, location data will be a key element in displaying the right business or product information graphically.

Street Fight Daily: Uber Seeks $10B Valuation, NextDoor CEO Charged With Felony

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technologyUber Said to Be in Funding Talks for More Than $10B Value (Bloomberg)… Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia Faces Hit-and-Run Charges in San Francisco (Mashable)… Foursquare’s Swarm And The Rise Of The Invisible App (TechCrunch)…

Street Fight Daily: Google Taps Local Inventory, Microsoft Tests Card-Linked Offers

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technologyGoogle Introduces Local (Inventory) Product Listing Ads (Search Engine Land)… Microsoft Forms Alliance With Facebook, LivingSocial And Others To Promote Card-Linked Offers, Starts Test In Seattle (TechCrunch)… Square Doubles In Size In A Year; Now Boasts 600 Employees (GigaOm)…

LBMA PODCAST: Yahoo, Alibaba, and Impact Mobile

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In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan talk about Yahoo’s continued campaign to buy employees; big data from Twitter showcases the hate; Alibaba takes a stand in the mapping wars; the re-emergence of RFID for grocery checkout; a Canadian interpretation of the future of Google Glass and our special guest, Gary Schwartz, CEO of Impact Mobile…

Looking Up: Local Data and the Real World

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Google Glass may be overpriced or simply too odd for many consumers, but it still represents a manner of thinking about the interconnectedness of the internet and the world that is an inevitable outcome of current trends. With smartphones as our constant companions, we already spend a vast amount of our time looking down to look things up.

Street Fight Daily: Twitter Brings Local Trends to Mobile, Square Poaches PayPal Exec

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Twitter Updates Its Apps with New Trends Locations (TheNextWeb)… Square Hires An Exec From PayPal To Form Payments Partnerships With Retailers (TechCrunch)… Brownstoner Founder Jonathan Butler’s Venture-ing into Queens (Daily News)…

Street Fight Daily: Google Breaks Up Mapping Unit, Boston Phoenix Shuttered

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Google Breaks Up Mapping and Commerce Unit (AllThingsD)… Boston Phoenix to Close; Portland, Providence Papers Remain Open (Boston.com)… Ok, So Maybe Greed Is Groupon, But The Much Bigger Issue Is The Product (TechCrunch)…

Street Fight Daily: Square Puts ‘Business in a Box,’ Google Opens Glass

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Square’s ‘Business in a Box’ Offers a Digital Register for $300 (Wall Street Journal)… Google Will Offer Its Glasses to Select Few (New York Times)… Patch Reportedly Cuts Editors in Lead Up to Pivot (Business Insider)…

Street Fight Daily: Location’s Dirty Secret, Yelp Explains Filter

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.The Dirty Little Secret About Location-Targeted Mobile Ads (Business Insider)… Yelp CEO Stoppelman Explains the Site’s Controversial ‘Review Filter’ (Screenwerk)… How to Make the Most of Mobile Local Search (Mashable)…

Street Fight Daily: Radius Scores $12.4M, Retailer Spend on Mobile Doubles

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Local Business Sales Intelligence Platform Radius Raises $12.4M From American Express And Others (TechCrunch)… Retailers to Ring Up Sales Via Mobile (The Wall Street Journal)… Indoor Venues Are The Next Frontier For Location-Based Services (Forbes)…

Street Fight Daily: Tribune Halves TribLocal, Yelp Pushes Into Asia

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.In Wake of Journatic, Tribune Reduces Number of TribLocal Editions (Crain’s Chicago Business)… Yelp Expands into Asia With Singapore Launch (CNet)… UBL Going After Huge Offline Co-op Ad Budgets (Screenwerk)…

Street Fight Daily: Google Now, ‘Times’ Debriefs on Hyperlocal

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… p style=”text-align: left;”>Google Now’s Personalized Search With Automated Results: Creepy Or The Future Of Search? (Fast Company)…

Five Things The New York Times Leaned From Its Three-Year Hyperlocal Experiment (Nieman Journalism Lab)…

Project Glass Is The Future Of Google (TechCrunch)…

Patch Local Editor is Having Fun (Romenesko)…