Street Fight Daily: Angie’s List Worth $1 Billion, Tiger Global Bets on Groupon
Street Fight Daily: Groupon Surges, Square Avoids Sales Hires
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Groupon Surges on Expected E-Commerce Expansion (Bloomberg)… Square Is Avoiding Hiring Salespeople (Business Insider)… QuickBooks Online For iPad Isn’t A Boring Accounting App – It’s A Simple CRM (TechCrunch)…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon Acquires MashLogic, EveryBlock Could Be Sold
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Groupon Acqui-Hires MashLogic, Will Shutter Britely Plugin This weekend (PandoDaily)… EveryBlock Could Still Be Sold, Says Schiller, After Abrupt Closing of Hyperlocal Pioneer (Poynter)… After Acquiring 15 Groupon Clones, CrowdSavings Finds a Buyer for Itself (AllThingsD)…
Selling Local Is Hard — Here’s What You Need to Do to Make It Work
For the past couple of months I’ve been testing a new targeted local online advertising product as part of my fellowship project at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute.The test has been essentially to sell the product to regional businesses within a given market. And at the end of the two-month trial, after calling on more than 150 businesses multiple times, I have a much greater appreciation not only for local salespeople but for the brands in the marketplace that can sell local…
What We Mean When We Talk About ‘Hyperlocal’
When we launched Street Fight, we expanded the term “hyperlocal” from its traditional use pertaining only to passionate, driven, highly local publishers who were the first to act on the erosion of local media’s business. We have applied it to include anyone who is disrupting and taking market share from traditional media and offering local businesses new ways to reach consumers…
Street FIght Daily: Shopkick Hits Profitability, Groupon Expands Reporting
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Shopkick Says It’s Now Profitable, With Its Shopping App Adding $200M In Sales For Target, Best Buy And Others In 2012 (TechCrunch)… Groupon Unveils Merchant Impact Report, a Free Service So Merchants Can Justify Their Deal Performance (The Next Web)… AOL’s Patch to Go From Lousy Local News Network to Even Worse Community Message Board network (PandoDaily)…
Street Fight Daily: Mason Fights to Stay, NetSuite Pushes into Local
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Fights to Keep His Job (Bloomberg Businessweek)… NetSuite Buys More Retail Expertise With Retail Anywhere Acquisition (GigaOm)… Streetline Gets $25M to Solve Parking (AllThingsD)…
Openings & New Hires at PlaceIQ, Apple, Twitter, Hibu, and More…
As the new year opens, employers are already making moves, scooping up hot talent, and posting job openings. Find out about PlaceIQ’s expansion, a promotion at Google, where Yahoo execs go when they leave, and some interesting openings at Google, plus lots of gigs for job-seeking business development and product management professionals….
Street Fight Daily: SoLoMo Hype Wanes, Groupon Makes Another Goods Buy
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.
Startups Adjust to Web’s Down Cycle (Wall Street Journal)… Groupon Buys CommerceInterface To Improve How Vendors Sell On Groupon Goods (TechCrunch… Why Malls Are Getting Mauled (AllThingsD)…
Openings & New Hires at Locu, Groupon, Patch, Signpost, and More…
There’s lots happening in hyperlocal as the year comes to a close: Locu snags PayPal vet Mok Oh as an adviser, plus lands a hot ex-Googler. Booker brings on a dynamic duo in its hiring spree. Patch sees big moves at the top. And there are some shifts at Groupon and open gigs at Telenav, Signpost, Swipely, Yellowbook, Yelp, and more…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon a Tough Sell, TripAdvisor Changes Hands
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… When Does Groupon — Still at More Than 80 Percent Off — Become a Deal for Someone? (AllThingsD)… TripAdvisor Shifts to Malone (The Wall Street Journal)… Verizon Responds to FCC Complaint Over Blocking of Google Wallet, Says Google Needs to Change the App (Droid-Life)…
Street Fight Daily: Apple Maps ‘Life Threatening,’ Starbucks App for All
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Apple Redraws Maps After Australian Drivers Led Astray in the Bush (The Guardian)… Starbucks Mobile Vets Get $10M for Cardfree Mobile Payments Tool (GigaOm)… Eight Great Location-based Mobile Campaigns from 2012 (Econsultancy)…
After Boom and Bust, How Will the Discount Economy Evolve?
The discount industry experienced 2012 as a major turning point. In the past 12 months, the deal provider landscape shook out even more, with the consolidation of many deals sites and the decline of some industry giants. Given the changed landscape, here are a few predictions about where the local offer and voucher space is heading…