MerchantCircle, which has established some expertise in launching markets on the cheap, says it is going international with new sites for Canada, the U.K. and Australia. It had previously announced that it is opening up its API to allow sites…
DexOne has made online video a standard element of its Enhanced Pack online advertising bundle as a way to encourage wider adoption of online video, according a release issued today. "Online video advertising has become an increasingly important tool for…
Bing has seen some solid overall growth since it launched. It continues to accomplish its stated goal of differentiating from the common set of search engine features. And search market share continues to increase. Its visually oriented nature and feature…
I recently attended a webinar hosted by SalesBlogcast that featured social media company BizBrag. My reason for attending was to learn how small and medium sized-businesses can take advantage of social media. Based on our Local Commerce Monitor research, 32…
Center’d, the local/social events and city guide site, has consistently reported growing traffic. But in its three-year existence, the site has never really found a niche that would set it apart from the competition. The site, however, has kept on…
MoVoxx today announced it has been acquired by mobile marketing firm Adenyo for an undisclosed amount. Adenyo offers a mobile ad platform including an analytics engine, mobile payments and coupons. It's strong in Europe, but it hopes MoVoxx will give…
Related to our ongoing blog coverage of mobile bar code scanning (and BIA/Kelsey report released last week), Occipital announced its RedLaser app has reached 50 million scans. Other milestones include 2 million downloads and 950,000 active users. RedLaser is one…
While avoiding predictions of a full recovery, Dave Swanson, CEO, DexOne (formerly known as R.H. Donnelley), said on this week's first-quarter 2010 earnings call that the company does expect the rate of decline in ad sales to improve sequentially throughout…
Comscore today reported that U.S. mobile Web usage has reached 30 percent of mobile subscribers. This is out of a total 234 million mobile subscribers age 13 and up. The Q1 mobile market data also breaks down user activities and…
ReachLocal says it is going ahead with its IPO. A new filing with the SEC noted that it will price 4.8 million shares between $17 and $19, allowing it to raise between $81.6 million and $91.2 million -- below the…
U.K. directory publisher Yell is launching an overall redesign to its online directory today that follows the trend of building an immersive online Yellow Pages experience. The new site includes 3-D maps and street cam. Working with partners C3 and…
Web site vendors may be well-positioned to jump-start Groupon-like "deal-a-day" offers. Analog Analytics and Adility, for instance, are seeking to leverage their respective media and sales channel relationships for deal a day. Now jumping into the pool is Utah-based Matchbin,…
Yelp just announced it has launched in France -- a move that makes sense for a site that bases itself on food, dining and entertainment. From the release: The launch of Yelp France underscores the site's increased effort towards broader…
Cox Enterprises has sold 25 percent of AutoTrader.com to Providence Equity Partners, a company that manages $22 billion in its portfolio and whose Web site says it likes to take equity shares “between $250 million and $2.5 billion.” Terms were…
I didn't have the chance to go to O'Reilly's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this year, but it's always a good show for broad and futuristic views of the world and of technology. Mobile has been a hot topic…
Google's pace of functional and aesthetic upgrades to mobile products has been swift. Chief among these is search and results pages. Tied to recent upgrades to online SERPs, Google has integrated filtering tools to the corresponding mobile pages on iPhone…
If you do a search on a doctor, you may come up with five or six spammy, ad-supported links. But now Insider Pages, a property of IAC’s Citysearch, has launched DoctorFinder, a new service that hopes to simplify the complex…
Real estate and rental agents get into big trouble if they mouth off about a neighborhood’s quality-of-life issues. The most they can do is point to Web sites that provide some general stats (i.e., school info, crime stats and market…
We’ve seen a marked increase in the number of inquiries we’ve been getting from clients regarding the use and implementation of call measurement platforms. We have long believed that the “call” is a critical element of any local search model…
When it comes to hyperlocal, the problem may just be that the local reporting doesn't reasonate with the community as much as the old community papers did. That's the feeling behind Main Street Connect, a new company launched by a…
