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Online restaurant booking success story OpenTable has started to make moves into mobile — both building apps and distributing its reservation system to other app partners.
This is a logical move, given that Arts & Entertainment is a big category of mobile content consumption ...
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Local.com has reorganized around three business units: “Owned & Operated,” “Sales & Advertiser Services,” and “Network.” The latter unit will consist of over 700 regional media sites, formerly associated with PremierGuide and its successor, ...
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The volume level on discussions about geo-location continues to be turned up. The latest example is the geo-location panel that took place at TechCrunch’s Real Time Crunchup on Friday. If you missed it, you can see the entire session here .
If you don’t have time, start at minute ...
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Small businesses that buy search spent $1,658 on average in Q3 2009, a figure that was up 91 percent from 3Q 2008, according to a new report issued by WebVisible , a company that manages online marketing campaigns for SMBs.
Thirty-three percent of the SMB search market is made up of ...
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Microsoft
Here is a recap of posts from last week, in case you missed any. Click below to read each post in full.
Business Transformation Top of Mind for European Publishers
I’ve just spend two days attending the Yellow Pages Today event in Milan, Italy, where publishers engaged in a ...
Home Theater
I’ve just spend two days attending the Yellow Pages Today event in Milan, Italy, where publishers engaged in a very compact program that focused on “Repositioning the Yellow Pages.” The event was really about how directory publisher have to transform their organizations in ...
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Copenhagen based mobilepeople has been making moves throughout North America over the past year, starting with its deal to power the DexKnows suite of mobile products for directory publisher R.H. Donnelley.
It’s latest deal, announced today, is to power the mobile apps for ...
Mobile
The ILM:09 conference Dec. 9-11 in LA is now just around the corner. We’ve handpicked 60 cutting-edge speakers, and we think we are onto something that is really important. I can tell you that signups have been great, too.
Recent adds to the speaker roster include ...
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Skype
One of the often asked questions we receive regarding sales from all local media sectors “is multi-product selling by a single sales force really possible.” The natural follow on question invariably is what would be the benefit of a single sales force as opposed to ...
Online
Mobile Social app Foursquare is getting lots attention and is growing quickly into new cities. The app, for those unfamiliar, lets you “check in” at local establishments in order to alert friends where you are.
The value exchange for checking in also involves gaining ...
iPhone
National Public Radio has been recently getting more aggressive in promoting sponsorship packages in advertising industry trades. Indeed, NPR has positioned itself as an advertising alternative to other news outlets – positioning that hyperlocal sites such as Sacramento Press ...
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One of our favorite mobile products is ShopSavvy, the Android based app that essentially turns your phone into a bar code scanner. It now joins the 100,000-deep library of iPhone apps.
Technically, what the app does is overlay a horizontal scanline on the camera’s viewfinder to scan ...
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Android
Following in the footsteps of ESPN Local and CBS Sports , Comcast will develop local sports sites on the back of its existing TV properties. Comcast has already launched Comcast SportsNet News England , which it calls “the most comprehensive and dedicated online local sports ...
Home Theater
Comcast
One of our favorite mobile apps is ShopSavvy. It essentially turns your phone into a bar code scanner.
Technically all it does is overlay a horizontal scanline on the camera’s viewfinder to scan an image and then scrape its product database and pull up pricing, specs and reviews. ...
iPhone
iPhone
Following up on the previous post about BIA/Kelsey’s Mobile Market View study, the big jump in smart phone penetration deserves a closer look.
Specifically the data show smart phone penetration to be 29 percent of U.S. adult mobile subscribers (up from 18 percent last year). This ...
Mobile
BIA/Kelsey’s Mobile Market View survey releases today, showing a big rise in smart phone use as well as corresponding mobile web activity and data consumption.
The annual U.S. consumer survey, currently in Wave III, indicates a surprisingly high jump in smart phone use to nearly a ...
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The past week has seen a lot of action in the mobile space — Droid release , AdMob acquisition , new BIA/Kelsey mobile data, etc.
On Friday, we sat down to record a podcast to bat around some of these events and what they could mean. This is something we’ve done periodically but ...
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Yahoo News is bolstering its local efforts and building “a staff of editors around the US who will improve the local news experience on the frontpage,” according to a Tweet from Anthony Moor, who was recruited from Dallasnews.com , per Lost Remote . The Yahoo News effort is ...
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AOL
Outgoing CBS Interactive head Quincy Smith, in a New Teevee Live interview conducted by Om Malik, said he continues to have confidence in the future of TV, which is unlikely to suffer the same disruptive fate that many people are assuming for the music and newspaper industries.
“The ...
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Things continue to heat up in the mobile ad network space. One week after the Google/AdMob news broke, top mobile ad network Millennial has announced a $16 million funding round led by NEA, and existing investors.
The company says it will use the money to accelerate international growth ...
