Street Fight Daily: Yelp Launches Now, Local TV’s Jackpot

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Yelp Ups Its Search Game With “Yelp Now”: Adds Dinner Reservation & Food Ordering Search Filters (Search Engine Land)… Jackpots for Local TV Stations in F.C.C. Auction of Airwaves (New York Times)… Square’s Jack Dorsey Puts It All Together (BuzzFeed)…

Street Fight Daily: Facebook’s New Listening Tool, Starbucks Orders Ahead

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technologyWhat Are Facebook Users Talking About? Advertisers Can Now Find Out. (Recode)… Starbucks Expands Mobile Ordering (TechCrunch)… Google Accidentally Reveals Its Own Mobile Events App (TechCrunch)…

Street Fight Daily: Facebook Redesigns Places, Local News Searching for Answers

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technologyFacebook Takes a Big Step Toward Competing in Local Search (Local Search Insider)… Is There Hope for Local News? (Atlantic)… Groupon Kicks Off First Analyst Day Amid Pivot to E-Commerce Site (AdAge)…

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Street Fight Daily: Foursquare Ads Tap Twitter, Airbnb Courts Cities

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technologyFoursquare’s New Ads Tap Twitter And Require $100K Commitment (AdWeek)… Airbnb Cozies up to Cities (Fortune)… Charting the Years-Long Decline of Local News Reporting (Washington Post)…

Street Fight Daily: Andreessen Bearish on Local News, Google Bets on Location-based Gaming

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.Marc Andreessen: The ‘Problem with Local News is Most People Don’t Care’ (Poynter)… Google: Location-based Gaming as Popular as Virtual Reality in 10 Years (Polygon)… Will Facebook Build a Stand-Alone Local Search App? (Screenwerk)…

Street Fight Daily: Patch To Close Sites, GateHouse Files For Chapter 11

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technologyMemo: ‘Regretfully, A Number of Patches Will Have To Be Closed (Romenesko)… GateHouse Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection (Wall Street Journal)… The NSA Refuses To Deny That It Collected The Location Data Of U.S. Phone Calls (TechCrunch)…

VIDEO: Local News as a Loss Leader?

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As local businesses shift marketing spending away from advertising, local media companies are scrambling to subsidize their news operations. During a panel at Street Fight Summit West earlier this month, Eric Bright, VP of Ecommerce at Deseret Digital Media; Mike Orren, President at Speakeasy; and Sean McDonnell, SVP of Sales at Propel Marketing discussed an emerging agency model, and debated whether digital marketing services like SEO and website building could help make up for lost revenue…

Street Fight Daily: Glympse Invades the Dash, LivingSocial Settles Suit

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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: Local News Lost, Groupon Bundles SEO

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.American News Consumers Have Gained the World but Lost Their Backyards (Atlantic)… Groupon Offers SEO Deal to Businesses (Upstart)… Barista Problems: Why Starbucks Isn’t the Energy Shot Square Needed (PandoDaily)…

Street Fight Daily: Apple Vets Waze, Yelp Lawsuit Overturned

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Is Apple Plotting A Route To A Waze Acquisition? Rumours On The Road Point To Yes…  (TechCrunch)… Judge Can’t Order Yelp User to Edit Negative Review (Ars Technica)… eBay Tries Two New Ways to Sell: Drop-Off Points and Home Pick-Up (AllThingsD)…

Street Fight Daily: Foursquare’s Round, Apple’s New Patent

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Investors Cool on Foursquare (The Wall Street Journal)… Apple Patents A System-Wide Event-Tracking And Geotagging System For iOS Devices (TechCrunch)… Three-way Tie-up Promises to Re-Invent Local News (Paid Content)…

Street Fight Daily: Hyperlocal Sees ‘Sandy’ Bump, Yelp Adds Menus

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Hurricane Sandy Boosts Local Online News Brands (AdWeek)… Yelp Launching Visual Menus With User-Contributed Photos (TechCrunch)… Location-Based Services to Bring in $4B Revenue in 2012 (Mobile Marketer)…

Street Fight Daily: Google Tests Same-Day Delivery, Facebook’s Local Hole

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Google Is Testing Same-Day Delivery for Shoppers (New York Times)… The Big Market Facebook is Missing Out On (GigaOm)… Now Amazon Can Easily Win The $100 Billion Local Commerce Market And The $150 Billion Smartphone Market (Forbes)…

Poll: 66% of Consumers Visit Hyperlocal News Sites

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Two-thirds of U.S. consumers visit hyperlocal news sites within their area, according to a recent Street Fight poll, with 9% visiting multiple times per day, 26% visiting on a daily basis, and another 16% doing so weekly. The 500-person survey, conducted on behalf of Street Fight by third-party opinions site Toluna QuickSurveys, reveals an avid and growing reader base…

Street Fight Daily: Google Buys Wildfire, DNA Info’s Billionaire Boss

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Google Buys Wildfire: Social/Loyalty Anchor? (Local Onliner)… Inside Billionaire Joe Ricketts Dreams of a Media Empire (Capital New York)… Craigslist Now Wants Your Postings Under ‘Exclusive’ Terms: Padmapper Fallout Continues (TechCrunch)…

Street Fight Daily: Groupon Retail, Journatic Fallout Continues

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.Groupon Opens Concept Store in Singapore (CNet)… The Uncomfortable Truth Behind the Journatic Byline Scandal (GigaOm)… Rumor: Twitter To Acquire Sense Networks To Better Target Local Ads (TechCrunch)

Street Fight Daily: Yelp Featured, Facebook Pulls Location-Aware App

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A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.
Apple To Feature Yelp Check-Ins Within IPhone Maps App (Bloomberg)…

You Won’t Find Friends Nearby Anymore: Facebook Pulls Its Location-Aware Mobile App To Add New Friends (TechCrunch)…
An NJ Hyperlocal Net to Rival Patch, Literally (NetNewsCheck)…