Street Fight Daily: Applebee’s Serves Tablets, Digital Wallets Still Lackluster
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology.… Applebee’s To Serve Tablets At Every Table (USA Today)… Many Consumers Aware Of Digital Wallets, Fewer Use Option (Media Post)… Main Street Sees $5.7B In Sales On ‘Small Business Saturday’ (New York Post)…
Street Fight Daily: Intuit Launches App Store, Signpost Raises $10 M
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… Intuit Launches An App Store For Business Owners To Find Software (TheNextWeb)… Signpost Raises $10M To Bring Online Marketing Tools To Small Businesses (VentureBeat)… Amazon Expanding Its Own Private Label Offering to Supermarket Goods (AllThingsD)…
Street Fight Daily: eBay Aims at Angie’s List, Isis Expands Nationwide
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… eBay Debuts New Angie’s List Competitor And Local Service Provider Marketplace, eBayHire, In The US (TechCrunch)… Carrier-Backed Isis Mobile Payment System Rolls Out Nationwide (Verge)… Flush with Cash, NextDoor Adding 100 Neighborhoods a Day (Screenwerk)…
5 Mobile Payment Platforms With Integrated Marketing Solutions
When a cashier swipes a customer’s credit card at a mobile point of sale terminal, he’s doing more than just processing a financial transaction. He’s transmitting data about who that customer is, what he’s buying, and when he’s buying it. Although this data has traditionally been closely guarded by legacy POS vendors, an increasing number of providers are opening up their doors and giving merchants a peek inside—using the data they gather through customer transactions to fuel integrated marketing programs for merchants…
Street Fight Daily: Yahoo Revisits Ad Consortium, Yelp Goes To Washington
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… Newspapers’ Ad Consortium With Yahoo Reboots (Poynter)… Yelp Just Got Its First D.C. Lobbyist (Fast Company)… WhitePages.com Fulfills Its Enterprise Destiny, Launches WhitePages PRO Identity Verification Platform (PandoDaily)…
Street Fight Daily: McDonald’s Tests Mobile Ordering, ‘Showrooming’ Threat Wanes
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… McDonald’s Testing Mobile Order App for U.S. Stores (Business Insider)… Maybe Showrooming Isn’t Killing Retailers After All (Businessweek)… SMB Twitter Followers Show Devotion (eMarketer)…
Street Fight Daily: Apple’s NFC Alternative, Google Faces ‘Street View’ Lawsuit
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… With iBeacon, Apple is Going To Dump NFC (GigaOm)… Google Loses Appeal in Street View Privacy Case (Reuters)… Yelp’s Newest Weapon Against Fake Reviews: Lawsuits (BloombergBusinessweek)…
Street Fight Daily: Behind Foursquare’s Founder, Thrillist Expands Local Coverage
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… Will Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley Finally Get It Right? (Fast Company)… Thrillist Expands, Becomes a Blend of Frommer’s and Foursquare (AdAge)… Seamless and the Online-Takeout Trend Makes Restaurants Queasy (BusinessWeek)…
Dongle Domination: 40% of SMBs Use Mobile Card Readers
A new report from BIA/Kelsey finds that 40% of small and medium-sized businesses already accept payments with a mobile credit card reader, and another 16% of the businesses plan to add capability within the next year. The numbers come amid an across-the-board increase in small business engagement with the digital tools, with social media and mobile advertising also taking a larger chunk of business owners time and money…
Street Fight Daily: Top Patch Exec Resigns, Mobile Payments At Starbucks Increase
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology… Top Executive At AOL’s Local News Business, Patch, Resigns (BuzzFeed)… Mobile Payment At U.S. Starbucks Locations Crosses 10% (TechCrunch)… I’m Still Waiting for My Phone to Become My Wallet (New York Times)…
Street Fight Daily: Facebook Readies SMB Push, Foursquare’s Nascent Asset
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… As Small Businesses Become Tech Savvy, They Could Earn Big Ad Revenue For Facebook (TechCrunch)… Why Foursquare’s Growth Story Is Better Than You Think (Forbes)… Andrew Mason on How to Deal: From Founder to Ex-Groupon CEO (Fast Company)…
Street Fight Daily: Google Delivers Same-Day, Local Search on Mobile
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Google Shopping Express Test Partners Include Target And Other Local SF Stores (TechCrunch)… Only 29% Of Consumers Regularly Use Mobile Devices To Find Local Businesses (Search Engine Land)… Retailer Enthusiasm for Mobile Payments Tempered by Power Struggles in Industry (Mobile Commerce Daily)…
Street Fight Daily: Selling Main Street, Mobile Payments Ease Cash Flow
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… The Newsonomics of Selling Main Street (Nieman Lab)… Payments Brighten Cash Flow for Small Business (Wall Street Journal)… The Real Reason Why Google Is Dropping The Tablet vs. Desktop Distinction? It’s The User Context, Stupid! (Search Engine Land)…
Street Fight Daily: Apple Vets Waze, Yelp Lawsuit Overturned
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: Google’s Hyperlocal ‘Activity Stream’, A GrubHub IPO?
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Google Map Maker Goes Hyper-Local with Activity Stream (CNet)… Sizing Up GrubHub’s IPO Prospects (Crain’s Chicago Business)…Death of the Classified: Publishers Struggle to Ignite Old Ads in New Media (Paid Content)…
Street Fight Daily: Foursquare Eyes Funding, SEC Presses Groupon
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Foursquare Looks Into A Fourth Round At An Over $700M Valuation, Investors Skeptical (TechCrunch)… SEC Asked Groupon for Financial Disclosures (The Wall Street Journal)… Yelp’s Flaws Become Apple Maps Flaws in iOS 6 (GigaOm)…