YPG Canada announced today that it will join Foursquare's venues project. This will provide Foursquare with the 1.5 million business listings in YPG's YellowAPI. Existing YellowAPI developers will conversely have one-stop access to Foursquare's API. The venues project is meant…
So, do we buy shares in Groupon? We don’t provide investment advice, of course, but as we consider its prospects from a non-investment angle, we’ll be watching for answers to the following eight questions – none of which, unsurprisingly, is…
I was surprised this week when Google Offers didn't get more of a media blitz. It did get some coverage, and to be fair the news had leaked weeks ago so the thunder was effectively stolen. But what coverage there…
Today we held a webinar to preview our upcoming Deals 3D conference and to touch on the biggest issues facing the emerging sector. This drilled downs on a few areas where deals are taking form in different ways, such as…
NBC’s local websites for its 10 owned and operated stations have effectively lowered the average age of users from 44 to 33, boosted the average time spent on site to 12 minutes, and grown its user base to 10 million…
The purchase funnel that takes consumers from awareness to transaction and retention has been an article of faith among marketers for many years. TV advertising, for instance, is “upper funnel.” Yellow Pages, at the point of sales consideration, has been…
AOL's Patch.com, which is now in 813 markets, is meeting internal goals and poised for success, according to President Warren Webster, who addressed San Diego Interactive Day yesterday. Webster said Patch is now reaching 6.9 million unique visitors and has…
