Ingenio has linked up with Web search engine Find.com to provide pay-per-call listings in its search results. Pay-per-call is getting more and more attention these days as a valuable source of performance-based marketing, online and off. Click-to-call (the basis of…
Where Do Moviegoers Turn First for Movie Listings?New research conducted by The Kelsey Group shows that U.S. households are turning to a variety of offline and online local information sources to find movie listings. With "Superman Returns" topping $100 million…
Dave Swanson, chairman and CEO of RHD, was recognized as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Carolina region. Three years ago Swanson and team packed up their boxes and moved from Purchase, N.Y., to Cary,…
The Tyee, a community site based in Vancouver, BC, is pursuing a rich base of community advertisers and foundations left behind by the "establishment" views of CanWest, the publisher of The Vancouver Sun and other Canadian titles.CanWest is a local…
The American Press Institute's $2.7 million Newspaper Next project is nearing completion on six innovation test beds and getting ready to share its findings with the rest of the newspaper industry in September, according to Managing Director Steve Gray, who…
Social media driven news site Digg has gotten a facelift and some added functionality. John Battelle takes a closer look and speculates on possible future enhancements and plug-ins for the site. The viral success the site has enjoyed makes this…
A few weeks ago, we had the opportunity to interview InfoSpace's senior director of emerging products, Joe Herzog, and product management director, Ron Winter. The company has an interesting strategy with parallel initiatives in online search and in mobile products,…
At the recent EADP congress in Rome, Peter Darpo, CEO of European Directories, provided the audience with detailed information about the recently created European Directories. The company covers seven markets and has annual revenues of around 620 million euros and…
The Yellow Pages Group held a CMR summit in Toronto last week. According to the ADM Flash, "During the last three years, Yellow Pages Group has been the fastest growing publisher in the world, has the highest EBITDA, highest IYP…
Here are a handful of news items to round out the week:—Google is moving further down the social search path by allowing users to tag video content with comments, ratings and labels. Search Engine Watch explains. —Microsoft has come out…
Mobile coupon engine Cellfire launched yesterday for Cingular users. The tracking and marketing benefits that online and mobile coupons offer will make this a big area of development in the local space over the next year. As more third-party software…
Google's long-awaited online payment system launched today, which, among other things, will enable better tracking by closing the loop on search and online conversions. There is obviously a lot more to it, which we'll get the chance to explore later.…
As the owner of a small business, I have always been interested in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition. Therefore, I was pleased to read that Perry Evans, CEO of Local Matters, was honored by E&Y with…
The New York Times' John Markoff has an interesting write-up today on a location-based service gaining traction in Japan, based on the technology of U.S.-based GeoVector. Achieving a similar end as mobile visual search, it uses a combination GPS, Web,…
Before leaving the Bay Area this week to go to Atlanta and Seattle, I needed to make a hotel reservation in Seattle. It was suggested I try the Westin Seattle, so I went to the hotel's Web site — it's…
Univision Communications, the largest Spanish language media company in the U.S. was sold to a group of private equity players for $12.3B. This comes after intense bidding by Grupo Televisa — a large media company in Mexico. Univision is the…
The roll-up of mom-and-pop Spanish-language directory publishers continues. Hispanic Yellow Pages of America, a portfolio company of Hispania Capital Partners of Chicago, has acquired the Milwaukee Hispanic Yellow Pages and Resource Guide. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Here…
Some notable happenings from around the local search and media worlds this week:—MapQuest launched the beta version of a new tool today that helps road-trippers plan routes. It includes some new Ajax functionality to drag and drop points on a…
Dow Jones reported at roughly 5:30 p.m. EST that Local Matters has priced its initial public offering of 3.3 million shares at between US$14 and US$16 per share. This works out to a range of US$46 million to US$53 million,…
Seat Pagine Gialle has recently announced a beta version of a three-dimensional online Yellow Pages directory, called Pagine Gialle Visual. You can check out the beta here. Here is the press release if you're interested. Conceptually, this is a powerful…
