Street Fight Daily: Foursquare/Yahoo Data Talks, PayPal Tests Face Verification
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… Yahoo, Foursquare in Talks Over Data Partnership (Buzzfeed)…
PayPal Testing Face-Verification System for Mobile Payments (Mashable)…
LocationInsight Becomes Placeable as It Aims to Eradicate Dirty Location Data (Pando Daily)…
Street Fight Daily: Facebook Partners With OpenTable, Groupon Acquires Plumfare
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… Facebook To Offer OpenTable Restaurant Bookings Via Mobile (Reuters)… Plumfare Acquired By Groupon (VentureBeat)… How Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley Lost The Narrative To Yelp’s Keith Rabois (Fast Company)…
Street Fight Daily: Layoffs at Gannett, OpenTable Buys Rezbook
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology…. More Than 150 Layoffs at Gannett (Gannett Blog)… OpenTable Buys Rezbook, Teams Up With Urbanspoon (San Francisco Business Times)… Wall Street Gives Yelp Five-Star Review as Stock Soars 23 Percent (AllThingsD…
LivingSocial Narrows Losses In Q2
Losses at LivingSocial slowed in the second quarter as the company began to rebound from a tumultuous start to the year. The company posted a $31 million net loss last quarter — a 38% decrease from the quarter earlier — as operating expenses and revenue sank slightly over the same period, according to a quarterly filing by Amazon, the company’s lead investor…
Street Fight Daily: Lenders Take Over Hibu, Uber Could See $3.5B Valuation
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… Yellow Pages Owner Hibu Handed Over To Lenders (BBC)… Fast Car: Uber Funding Auction Could Reach a $3.5B Valuation (AllThingsD)… Steve Case on LivingSocial: ‘I’m Still A Believer’ (Washington Business Journal)…
Street Fight Daily: Apple Acquires Locationary, Yelp Snaps Up Reservations Service
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… Apple Acquires Local Data Outfit Locationary (AllThingsD)… Yelp To Acquire Restaurant Reservation Service SeatMe To Take On OpenTable (Verge)… Yelp To Acquire Restaurant Reservation Service SeatMe To Take On OpenTable (Verge)…
Street Fight Daily: Foursquare Shows ‘Check-In’ Ads, LivingSocial Cuts Back
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… Foursquare Starts Showing Ads After You Check In (AdAge)… LivingSocial To Stop Producing Local Events, Cut At Least 30 Jobs (Washington Business Journal)… Revamped Google Maps App Aims to Give Users More Content (Wall Street Journal)…
Street Fight Daily: Patch Limps Toward Profitability, RetailMeNot Files for IPO
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… AOL’s Patch Limps Toward Profit Amid Sluggish Advertising(Bloomberg Businessweek)… RetailMeNot Files For IPO, Shows Coupons Really Are Sexy (VentureBeat)… From The Ashes of Webvan, Amazon Builds a Grocery Business (Reuters)…
Street Fight Daily: Google Offers Head to Google+, GrubHub and Seamless Merger Rumors
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Google Offers Heading to Google+ (PCMag)… Grubless? Online Takeout Giants GrubHub And Seamless In Talks To Merge (TechCrunch)… LivingSocial Relying on Events to Make Up for Weaker Daily Deals Business (Washington Post)…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon Launches POS, Visa Updates Rewards
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Groupon Squares Up To Rivals With Groupon POS, An iPad App And Dashboard For On-Site, Mobile Payments (TechCrunch)… Visa Updates Offers Rewards Scheme With Point-of-Sale Discounts and Personalized Cardholder Alerts (TheNextWeb)… Bringing Social-Network Superpowers to the Real World (Wired)…
Street Fight Daily: Square Looks to Discovery, Mobile-Local Traffic Accelerates
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Square Sets Its Sights on Check-ins: ‘We Can Do Something Better’ (Verge)… Report: Mobile Traffic To Local Sites Growing Faster Than To Total Internet, Now At 27 Percent (SearchEngineLand)… Study: Daily Deals Sites are Bleeding Each Other Dry (PandoDaily)…
Street Fight Daily: Square Beefs Up Register, LivingSocial Hacked
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Square Beefs Up Its Register for Restaurants (AllThingsD)… LivingSocial Hack Exposes Data for 50 Million Customers (New York Times)… Life360, A Family Networking App With More Users Than Foursquare, Is Now Headed For Cars, Smart Home Systems (TechCrunch)…
Street Fight Daily: LivingSocial a ‘Stronger’ Company, Factual Founder’s Past
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… LivingSocial a ‘Better, Stronger’ Company, Says Grotech’s Don Rainey (Washington Business Journal)… Why The Man Who Already Changed The Internet Forever Is Trying To Do It Again (Business Insider)… 5 Reasons Foursquare Is Losing The Social Local Mobile Revolution (ReadWrite)…
Yipit Co-Founder: Hyperlocal Is Coming to Be Defined By ‘Marketplaces’
“I think what would surprise most people is that the ‘daily deal’ industry is actually stable and increasing,” Jim Moran told Street Fight. “By this point the vast majority of revenue is driven by repeat customers, both on the consumer and the merchant size. One time users have moved on over a year ago, and the market will now grow as offer quality and user experience continues to improve. … The only thing surprising to me about the daily deal industry is that we still haven’t been able to agree on a better name for it.”
Street Fight Daily: Making Advertising ‘Glocal,’ LivingSocial Partners With Custora
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Great Advertising Is Both Local and Global (Harvard Business Review)… LivingSocial Takes Andrew Mason’s Advice with New Targeting Tech From Custora. But is It Too Late? (PandoDaily)… Facebook App Used More than Mapquest, Bing for Local Search (Screenwerk)…
Street Fight Daily: LivingSocial Co-Founder Departs, NextDoor Hits 10K Neighborhoods
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… LivingSocial CTO and Co-Founder Departs Company (AllThingsD)… Nextdoor Hits 10K Neighborhoods, Gets Me To Stop Running At Night (TechCrunch)… Solving the Hyperlocal Puzzle (American Journalism Review)…
Street Fight Daily: Glympse Invades the Dash, LivingSocial Settles Suit
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Glympse Brings Its Location Sharing to BMW and MINI Vehicles (New York Times)… LivingSocial Ordered to Pay $4.1 Million To Settle Class Action Suit (Fast Company)… New Yelp Revenue Estimate Feature Misleads Merchants (CoPilot)…
Street Fight Daily: LivingSocial Sales Record, Foursquare Updates Check-in
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Struggling Deals Site LivingSocial Just Hit A Crucial Sales Record (Business Insider)… The Check In Is Dead; Long Live The Check In As Foursquare Adds Quick Glide Feature On iOS (TechCrunch)… Groupon Board Is Said to Focus CEO Search on External Candidates (Bloomberg)…
PODCAST: This Week in Location-Based Marketing — Timbre
In this week’s episode, hosts Rob Woodbridge and Asif Khan look at apps that can help you find street food; KLM’s social map; the girl scouts go all-in to sell you cookies; and questions about LivingSocial’s viability. Plus the resource of the week and special guest Mark Kasdorf, co-founder of location-based live music discovery app Timbre…
Street Fight Daily: AOL COO May Exit, Airbnb Expands Hyperlocal Contnent
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… COO Artie Minson Could Exit Aol, Patch Issues To Blame? (TechCrunch)… Airbnb’s Neighborhoods Program Expands With the Addition 93 Local Guides in 4 New Cities worldwide (The Next Web)… Foursquare CEO Looks Beyond Mobile Handsets: Anywhere There’s A Screen, We Want To Be On It (TechCrunch)…