Living Social, the No. 2 "deal a day" site after Groupon with $44 million raised, announced today that it has expanded beyond the U.S., adding London as its 27th market. Additional U.K. sites in Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool are up…
Living Social, the No. 2 "deal a day" site after Groupon with $44 million raised, announced today that it has expanded beyond the U.S., adding London as its 27th market. Additional U.K. sites in Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool are up…
American Express Open is making a series of moves to extend its massive list of SMB credit card customers into broad marketing relationships that will fully leverage Amex’s powerful brand and relationships. The potential for Amex to be a marketing…
Today we announced our revised forecast for the television industry. Previously we had been somewhat more conservative in our estimates because it was difficult to read which way the economic winds were blowing. And while the first half of this…
According to an eMarketer report out today, 80 percent of retailers still don't have a mobile product or marketing channel. This isn't terribly surprising given that we're still in the early days of mobile marketing, and it's still very much…
The Austrian mobile app developer Adafix has partnered with Lokaldelen, European Directories' Swedish operation, to launch a mobile caller ID recognition app. The new application enables the publisher to suggest alternate merchants if a caller fails to connect with their…
As widely rumored over the past few weeks, Foursquare has been working on a series B funding round, which it finalized today to the tune of $20 million. The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz and included existing investors Union…
Today Yelp is launching a new set of tools for businesses to better evaluate leads they're getting from its mobile products. Specifically, businesses that have claimed their listing and unlocked Yelp’s suite of free business tools can now also see:…
Recently I was asked by an analyst, “How sustainable is Apple’s iPhone growth really? If another device comes out with similar functionality at a much lower price, and on a better network, couldn’t there be a market share erosion?” A…
Recently I was asked by an analyst, “How sustainable is Apple’s iPhone growth really? If another device comes out with similar functionality at a much lower price, and on a better network, couldn’t there be a market share erosion?” A…
Recently I was asked by an analyst, “How sustainable is Apple’s iPhone growth really? If another device comes out with similar functionality at a much lower price, and on a better network, couldn’t there be a market share erosion?” A…
In case you missed them, here are a few headlines and links to recent posts on our Mobile Local Media blog. You can also subscribe to the RSS feed here, and the e-mail alert here. -- Bar-Code Scanning App RedLaser Picked Up by eBay…
This is a bit of a self-serving post, but kind of cool: I just noticed we rounded the corner on 4,000 blog posts. Thanks for continuing to read us. This blog has come a long way since it launched in…
In case you didn't see these, here are links to some of the more important posts from the past week on our Global Yellow Pages blog. Be sure to submit your e-mail address to "Subscribe to Our Blog." You will…
As Yell Group looks for a replacement for CEO John Condron, who announced that he will retire next year, President of New Media (UK) Mark Canon's responsibilities at the publisher are expanding. Condron recently named Canon Deputy Chief Executive, reporting to…
As Yell Group looks for a replacement for CEO John Condron, who announced that he will retire next year, President of New Media (UK) Mark Canon's responsibilities at the publisher are expanding. Condron recently named Canon Deputy Chief Executive, reporting to…
As Yell Group looks for a replacement for CEO John Condron, who announced that he will retire next year, President of New Media (UK) Mark Canon's responsibilities at the publisher are expanding. Condron recently named Canon Deputy Chief Executive, reporting…
Fresh from successfully defeating a strict opt-out bill in California, the Yellow Pages industry is now lobbying members of the Seattle City Council to prevent it from passing some form of restriction on Yellow Pages distribution. The City Council is…
We've written extensively about RedLaser, and mobile bar-code scanning apps for their merits in: 1. A more intuitive mobile search input than typing. 2. Buying intent that can be inferred from retail/point of purchase queries. Today, eBay announced that it…
After a two-week beta period, MerchantCircle is out with a new mayorship title for its SMBs that are the most "networked." One mayorship is given for every city/town and is achieved by engaging in the standard b2b activities of the site (connecting with…
