Street Fight Daily: ‘Daily Deals’ Profit, Yelp Surges
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Report: Most Daily Deals Now Profitable for SMBs, but Not Restaurants (Screenwerk)… Yelp Rises on Speculation of Smaller iPad (Bloomberg)… Community-Powered Traffic Navigation App Waze Hits 20 Million Users, Doubles Up in 6 Months (The Next Web)…
Street Fight Daily: Groupon Retail, Journatic Fallout Continues
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: Amazon Maps, Groupon’s Lefkofsky Steps Back
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… Amazon Buys 3D Mapping Startup UpNext (GigaOm)… Groupon Chairman Lefkofsky Steps Back From Company (WSJ)… Google+ Local Officially Replaces Places Apps in Mobile (Screenwerk)…
Journatic CEO Accepts Blame for Bogus Bylines
The popular National Public Radio show “This American Life” turned its eye on hyperlocal news service Journatic this weekend, revealing in its latest episode that the company’s local real estate site BlockShopper had slapped fake bylines onto some of the site’s lawsuit-prone stories. “This was a mistake,” Journatic CEO Brian Timpone told Street Fight yesterday. “We should never have run an alias byline and sent the article to our partners.”
Street Fight Daily: Google Now, ‘Times’ Debriefs on Hyperlocal
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… p style=”text-align: left;”>Google Now’s Personalized Search With Automated Results: Creepy Or The Future Of Search? (Fast Company)…
Five Things The New York Times Leaned From Its Three-Year Hyperlocal Experiment (Nieman Journalism Lab)…
Project Glass Is The Future Of Google (TechCrunch)…
Patch Local Editor is Having Fun (Romenesko)…
Placecast Expands Geo-Marketing Platform to Mobile Wallets
Earlier this month, mobile advertising company Placecast hit 10 million active users on its ShopAlerts platform — a white-label service that helps advertisers like North Face and AT&T push geo-targeted offers to consumers who opt in. Now, the six-year-old company is expanding into the mobile wallet space with the launch of ShopAlerts Wallet this morning…
Street Fight Daily: NYT Ends ‘Local’ Experiment, Patch Pressure
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… ‘Times’ Will End Partnerships with N.Y.U., CUNY on Hyperlocal Blogs (Capital New York)… Patch Puts Pressure on Local Editors (Romenesko) … Groupon China Venture To Merge With Tencent-Backed FTuan (Bloomberg)…
Street Fight Daily: Yelp Featured, Facebook Pulls Location-Aware App
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)…
Street Fight Daily: More Recommendations, Square Cloned
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology.… 
Former Microsoft Dealmaker Fritz Lanman Launches Livestar Recommendations App (All Things D)… Rocket Swipes ‘Double Digit Millions’ for Square Clone (GigaOm)… Daily Deal Dashboard Redeem & Get Launches Redepmtion Management Tool for Marketers (The Next Web)… Apps That Present Highlights of the World in Front of You (NYT)
Street Fight Daily: Square Loyalty, LocalResponse Nears Profit
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...
Square Gets Into the Loyalty Game with Digital Punch Cards (GigaOm)…
LocalResponse: Our Ad Network Has 7 Billion Impressions Per Month And Is Almost Profitable (TechCrunch)…
On The Heels Of Its Funding, Yext Gets A New Interface And Review Monitoring (TechCrunch)…
Transaction Overview: Constant Contact Acquires SinglePlatform
While a clear strategic fit, Constant Contact made a bold financial move with this acquisition. Valuation paid is clearly based on the expectation of strong revenue growth in 2013 and beyond as well as the strategic value of SinglePlatform’s products and customer and publisher relationships…
Street Fight Daily: AOL Fends Off Starboard, ICANN Domains, Seamless
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...
AOL Doubles Down On Content After Surviving Activist Challenge (Forbes)…
Why Newspapers Were Doomed All Along (Harvard Business Review Blog)…
Groupon Is Winning or Losing, Depending on Who You Ask (NBC Chicago Blog)…
Street Fight Daily: Yelp to Bing Local, IAB Launches Mobile Tools
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal content, commerce, and technology...
Yelp to Feature Reviews on Microsoft’s Bing Local Search Pages (Bloomberg Businessweek)…
IAB Launches Hub For Mobilizing Web Sites (MediaPost)…
Anyone Who Thinks Mobile Advertising Is Going to Be Huge Needs to See These Charts (Business Insider)…