The Pew Center’s latest report on the state of the media shows the financial woes affecting the traditional news business continue, and this is having an effect on consumers — but there are a few bright spots as well. Read more at paidContent »
Path is adding its own version of search to your Path moments and check-ins on Thursday, implementing a search bar that lets you look through your posts for memories with a particular friend or restaurants that are popular nearby. Read more »
Local is hot, at least for Axel Springer. The German publisher is buying a local portal, meinestadt.de, as a vehicle to gain exposure for local online classified advertising. Read more at paidContent »
Google’s move to buy travel publisher Frommer’s highlights how local and travel are coming together. Increasingly, the best travel services are focused on treating you like a local. And local services are becoming great resources for people looking to spend time in an unfamiliar city. 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 “Interchange Zero.” It will only make money from selling offers and loyalty services. 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 Zagat scores and summaries into its listings — and makes Zagat free. Read more at paidContent »
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 investment — or is it shopping around for a sale? 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 last year as a provider of customized loyalty programs for small and medium sized business. 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 at paidContent »
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 at paidContent »
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 at paidContent »
Yellow Pages publisher Yell Group must fight off not only the decline of its traditional print directories business but also now that of its… Read more at paidContent »
Huffington Post today took one more step in its ongoing march for a wider international reach: it has now officially opened Le Huffington Po… Read more at paidContent »
Many local media companies now rely on a single sales force to sell both traditional and print advertising–but that might be a shortsighted… Read more at paidContent »
Today we know a bit more about how Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) plans to extend its business opportunities in the years ahead: mobile services will… Read more at paidContent »
Hispanics, according to Nielsen, have the second-highest penetration of smartphone usage among U.S. ethnic groups, and today brings news of… Read more at paidContent »
Comcast (NSDQ: CMCSA) Xfinity TV subscribers stymied by the lack of access to iPad app WatchESPN have relief in sight: a new multi-year, cro… Read more at paidContent »
About two years ago, Fred Wilson and I were talking about which startups we found interesting and I mentioned offhandedly that Foursquare wa… Read more at paidContent »
Some more detail appears to be emerging in the lead-up to Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX) launching in the UK next year: in the midst of signing a seri… Read more at paidContent »
This is the fourth in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we c… Read more at paidContent »
Android’s Market and the App Store from Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) may be getting ever-closer to being level in the number of apps on offer, but whe… Read more at paidContent »
Hyperlocal content network Examiner.com is partnering with CBS (NYSE: CBS) Local Digital Media to provide exclusive content for CBS’s locall… Read more at paidContent »
So much that happens in the online space is dependent upon measurement. The ability to measure results also greatly influences the ability t… Read more at paidContent »
Google announced it has bought Clever Sense, maker of the smart local recommendations app Alfred. The deal arms Google with another tool to attack the local market, as it seeks to scoop up more ad dollars and be the go-to resource for all things local. Read more »
On the back of its latest executive appointments — a new head of sales, and a new head of HR — AOL (NYSE: AOL) is pressing on with more re… Read more at paidContent »
The news aggregating behemoth Huffington Post is continuing its march into new markets: the next stop is Spain, where the site will partner… Read more at paidContent »
Following on from its acquisition of mobile software developer SPB at the end of November, Yandex is making one more move to increase its ub… Read more at paidContent »
It’s taken a few years, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has really ramped up the number of countries where it is selling its Kindle products. Today… Read more at paidContent »
“Save to Foursquare” buttons now appear alongside web content at New York magazine, *Time* Out, and a variety of other publishers, allowing… Read more at paidContent »
Here’s why the most valuable part of A&N Media’s digital empire has little to do with news and its display ads, and everything to do with cl… Read more at paidContent »
Just a few days after DMGT said online car classifieds are proving “challenging”, AutoTrader’s operator has reported strong gains in the sam… Read more at paidContent »
With last week’s hiring of Gilt City’s Fernando Romero, as VP of ad sales of women’s lifestyle guide DailyCandy, the company has decided tha… Read more at paidContent »
Despite warnings from groups like the OECD that Europe and the U.S. are heading into recession, the flurry of online and mobile activity tha… Read more at paidContent »
The Brooklyn Bureau, a nonprofit local news site with backing from the Knight Foundation, is now live. The site will focus on civic affairs… Read more at paidContent »
The local online ad marketplace has experienced two years of fairly flat revenues, but Borrell Associates says that the space is on the verg… Read more at paidContent »
Yell Group, the telephone directories business struggling under a £2.6bn debt pile, is hoping to spend £160m buying back its own bonds and… Read more at paidContent »
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Hyperlocal news network Main Street Connect has a new CEO–tech industry vet Zohar Yardeni–and also closed a $7 million funding round, the… Read more at paidContent »
