Street Fight Daily: Online-to-Offline Retail, Pinterest Unveils Ad Products
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Report: More than Half of Offline Retail Sales Now Influenced by Digital, Mobile (Screenwerk)… Pinterest Unveils Flurry of Ad Products, Names Monetization Exec (AdAge)… Why APIs Will Save Your Business From Getting “Uber-ed” (Fortune)…
Street Fight Daily: Nokia’s Map Auction Heats Up, GrubHub Looks Beyond Restaurants
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber Joins Baidu as Nokia’s Maps Unit Draws Multiple Bidders (Bloomberg)… GrubHub Looks Beyond the Sit-Down Restaurant for Growth (Wall Street Journal)… New Platforms, Including BrightRoll, Plug Into Placed For In-Store Measurement (MediaPost)…
Street Fight Daily : Apple Buys Mapping Tech, Google Adds ‘Buy Button’
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Apple Acquires Coherent Navigation, a GPS Start-Up (New York Times)… Clinkle Implodes As Employees Quit In Protest Of CEO (TechCrunch)… Google’s ‘Buy Buttons’ Will Soon Let You Shop From Your Phone (Verge)…
Street Fight Daily: Facebook Adds Calls, Macy’s ‘Digical’ Strategy
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… These New Facebook Ads Come With a Call Button to Ring Up Businesses (AdWeek)… Macy’s Embraces a ‘Digical’ World (AdAge)… Google Continues Debranding Local – Google Maps App Becoming Local’s Forward Facing Brand (Blumenthals)…
Street Fight Daily: Uber Eyes $50B Valuation, Google’s Mobile Search Strategy
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber Fund-Raising Points to $50 Billion Valuation (New York Times)… Google’s Mobile Search Strategy: Bake In and Take Out (Recode)… Yelp Sale Rumor Reminds Us that Social is Terrible as a Business Even If It Did Change the Web (VentureBeat)…
Street Fight Daily: Yelp Looks for Buyer, Uber Bids on Nokia Maps
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Yelp Reportedly Explores a Sale — Could Priceline Be a Fit? (Street Fight)… Uber Joins the Bidding for Here, Nokia’s Digital Mapping Service (New York Times)… Google Integrates Food Ordering Into Search Results For Restaurants (TechCrunch)…
Street Fight Daily: Banjo Raises $100M, Apple’s Search Ambitions
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Banjo Raises $100M to Put Your Tweet (and More) on the Map (Street Fight)… Apple Challenges Google with Growing Web Search Program, Fueled by Topsy Acquisition (Apple Insider)… ClassPass, a Startup that Gym Rats and Investors Love, is Now a $400 Million Company (Business Insider)…
Street Fight Daily: Google Hits Mobile Majority, Foursquare’s Location Cloud
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Now It’s Official: More Google Searches Are Coming From Mobile Than Desktop (AdWeek)… Foursquare Targets Its B2B Pitch With Places And New Location Cloud (TechCrunch)… Apple Store Mastermind’s Startup Will Sell You an iPhone and Set It Up in Your Home (Recode)…
Street Fight Daily: Uber Plans Delivery Platform, Foursquare’s Brain Drain
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Uber Is Quietly Testing A Massive Merchant Delivery Program (TechCrunch)… Foursquare Has a New Problem: Employees are Checking Out (Mashable)… Most Shoppers Happy to Share Location Data with Retailers, But Want More Regulation on How It is Used (Internet Retailing)…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon Sells TicketMonster Stake, Verve Hires New CEO
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Groupon Sells Controlling Stake in Korean Site Ticket Monster for $360 Million (Recode)… Verve Mobile Taps Acxiom’s Stirratt As CEO (MediaPost)… ‘Mobilegeddon’ Could Be Bad News For 40% of Top Websites (USA Today)…
Street Fight Daily: Google’s Coming Mobile-geddon, Yelp Wins in Court
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Google is Making a Giant Change This Week That Could Crush Millions of Small Businesses (Business Insider)… Court Prevents Yelp from Turning Over User Data (Hill)… Foursquare Turns To Location Data For Revenue, Joining Crowded Field (Marketing Land)..
Street Fight Daily: Angie’s List CEO To Exit, RetailNext Raises $125M
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… William Oesterle, Chief Executive of Angie’s List, to Step Down (New York Times)… RetailNext Bags $125 Million for International Expansion, Acquisitions (Wall Street Journal)… Local “Near Me” Searches on Google Surged 34 Times (USA Today)…
Street Fight Daily: Yahoo Eying Foursquare, Zomato Raises $50M
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Foursquare Unleashes Location Data for Cross-Mobile Ad Targeting (AdWeek)… India’s Restaurant Search App Zomato Raises $50M At $1B+ Valuation, Buys MaplePOS (TechCrunch)… E.U. Charges Google With Violating Antitrust Laws (New York Times)…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon Nears Big Deal, SMBs Balk at Social
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… KKR Investor Group Nears Deal for Ticket Monster (Wall Street Journal)… Small Businesses Are So-So About Social (eMarketer)… Linking Digital Ads To In-Store Visits Continues To Spread: Tapad, Placed Ink Dea (MediaPost)…
Street Fight Daily: Nokia Weighs Sale of Maps, GoDaddy Keeps Buying Startups
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Nokia Weighs Sale of Maps Business to Focus on Networks (Bloomberg)… GoDaddy Acquires Marketplace Startup Elto To Expand Its Services For Web Pros (TechCrunch)… Amazon, Google and More Are Drawn to Home Services Market (New York Times)…