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Yahoo’s new board is throwing big dice with Marissa Mayer. Predictably, Silicon Valley – and cult of personality fans – like the move, while Eastern media watchers are dubious. I’ll prove… Read more »
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Yahoo’s new board is throwing big dice with Marissa Mayer. Predictably, Silicon Valley – and cult of personality fans – like the move, while Eastern media watchers are dubious. I’ll prove… Read more »
LevelUp, a Boston-based loyalty and payment startup, is laying down the gauntlet to other payment competitors by doing away with processing fees forever in what it calls a bid to achieve… Read more »
Lots of local activity in social and online media today. A local marketing services company, Momentfeed, says its data analysis implies that Facebook has shifted its feed algorithms to promote the… Read more »
Since Google bought Zagat last September for a reported $125 million, the company hasn’t done much with Zagat’s local content. That changes today with the rollout of Google+ Local, which incorporates… Read more »
Qype is Europe’s answer to Yelp, and it’s grown to more than 25 million users around the continent. But is a new publicity campaign touting its expansion a prelude to further… Read more »
No one has really emerged as a leader in helping local businesses retire their old punch cards. Andreessen Horowitz is laying down a $10 million bet on Chicago-based Belly, which launched… Read more »
Russia’s online listings market could be about to explode, and investors want a piece of it. The latest beneficiary is a Craigslist-style site that also wants to be like eBay. Read more »
Advertisers have long been enamored with the promise of location-based advertising (LBA). To date, however, national advertisers’ and agencies’ enthusiasm has been tempered by fragmented audiences, and advertisers and agencies have… Read more »
It could be all-change in one of UK news publishers’ biggest online sectors, car classified ads.
News Corp.’s News International is ready t… Read more »
UK online property listings leader Rightmove saw profit improve by a quarter in 2011.
Now it forecasts a tipping point, saying newspapers a… Read more »