Mobile Local Ad network xAD has been on a roll. About two months ago, it announced reaching 2 billion ads, just four months after hitting the first million (a feat that originally took 18 months). Now the company has announced…
The Jesus Phone turns 4. What better way to celebrate than an infographic (via Mashable). You're all grown-up now.
A federal judge upheld Seattle's opt-out registry this week for residents who choose not to receive Yellow Pages. U.S. District Court Judge James L. Robart said the city's opt-out ordinance does not violate the Yellow Pages publishers' First Amendment rights.…
As we keep saying, mobile will represent "Act II" of the exploding deal space. We even have an entire segment of our Deals 3D conference next month devoted to it. It kicks off with a session of heavy hitters including…
Readers of the blog know that we believe the deals space is the springboard for the next generation of …dare I say it…Local Online Commerce. Our Deals 3D conference July 18-19 in San Francisco is the one that couldn’t wait…
I'm a day late to this news but better late than never. Mobile local ad network Verve Wireless has released its "Local Mobile Index." This is fresh off the MMA show where I ran into Verve CMO Greg Halinan, who's…
Not a day passes without the question "Can Google Get Social?" popping up in the tech punditry. After several ill-feted answers (Buzz, Wave), the search leader has a new social reply: Google+. Actually, it's the Google+ "project." VP of Social…
We’ve been focused so much on deal a day that we sometimes forget it is just part of the mix when it comes to successful SMB promotions. Seth Gardenswartz of SpaBoom, a provider of promotion services for spas and restaurants,…
The big destination deal sites such as Groupon and LivingSocial have developed sites in most of the 150 or so large and medium markets in the U.S. How about markets with populations less than 250,000? There are 84 markets with…
From the Friday Futurist Department, TechCrunch has an in-depth look at Oblong's Mezzanine, a revolutionary new graphical user interface. When futuristic technologies are referenced, the movie "Minority Report" is often invoked. Though it usually refers to personalized ads (the scene…
Today we released our latest forecast that projects spending on U.S. mobile advertising. The highlight of this particular release is the subset of advertising that will be location targeted. We also break down formats (display, search, SMS), but here I'll…
Deal aggregators sort through daily deals and find the best ones for consumers in return for a piece of the action. They are primed to make up a healthy part of the extended family of deals products. But it isn’t…
The title of this post is meant to convey Loopt's longstanding presence in mobile local, as well as the "reverse" nature of the deals product it launched today with ChompOn. Known as U-Deals, it's a sort of reverse group buying…
Local Matter has named a new CEO, Tom Higley, who takes the helm at the local search software company following a months-long search. Higley has a deep background in starting up technology companies. According to his LinkedIn profile, Higley was most…
Soon after launching v2.0 of its mobile app, Shopkick got a little more local today by extending its mobile in-store rewards program to 1,000 SMBs in 10 U.S. cities. Known mostly for working with big-box chains like Target, Best Buy…
The credit card-based, in-flight beverage, food, entertainment and Internet era has a new twist: “Froogll” deals that can be bought online and targeted to users based on destination (i.e., Las Vegas), gender and observable family status (i.e., single/married/family). Froogll is…
Soon after announcing 10 million users, Foursquare is out with an app refresh that makes it easier to check in. This is simply a repositioning of the check-in button, and a further streamlining of the process. But with growing volumes…
HopStop, a directions portal that competes in the segment against an ever-building Google Maps, today announced its plans to fight the Big G, including new markets, content partners and features. The 20-person site, which gets about one-third of its traffic…
Can Groupon easily extend into the grocery coupon space? No, not at all easily. For starters, food producers used to "cents off" can't really provide goods at 50 percent off, or more, and then provide a commission of 30 percent…
Four-month-old, Cincinnati, Ohio-based SmartyTags has a decidedly different approach to the technology of QR codes. Rather than just focusing on the technology, its focus is on how best to use them as a marketing tool, track uses of each code…
