As we've sought to closely cover the inception and growth of mobile local search over the past few years, Poynt has been an important and influental company on our radar. This has involved a great deal of evolution in broadening…
PagesJaunes, the French directory publisher, recently announced the launch of 123deal in Italy, Germany and the U.K. The daily deals and local discounts portal and search engine is also available in France and Spain. The location-based search option allows users…
Last week several of the leading listed directory companies saw sizable spikes in their stock prices following their Q3 earnings announcements, though the surge seems to have died off today. For example, Dex One announced its earnings on Nov. 3. On…
Image Source: Reuters via New York Times Groupon’s final IPO price went from dank estimates of $10-$12 to $20 by the time it was priced, raising $700 million on a relatively small offering of its shares. That puts the company's…
We’ve been having a lot of fun putting together the ILM West conference Dec. 12-14 in San Francisco. As noted in our webinar yesterday (
Image Source: Mashable Groupon’s greatly reduced IPO is apparently set to take place on Friday, Nov. 4, in an environment much less friendly than originally envisioned last spring. The bloom has come off for a number of reasons. Groupon has…
The local display ad companyPaperG today unveiled a deal with AOL to offer its local display advertising technology via Patch, AOL's hyperlocal platform. The PaperG solution offers the ability to create a locally targeted display ad with only the…
During our DMS conference in September, we held a session on the "starting line" tools for SMBs to establish a mobile presence. This is step 1, before the higher frequency discussion of targeting mobile ads. It's what I like to…
Ticketmaster-Citysearch once had the idea that it could spur local commerce by matching concert goers with nearby restaurants, bars and even parking lots. AOL Digital City and Sidewalk explored similar concepts. But no one got it totally right. Now, Weotta,…
EyeTrackShop, a digital marketing search firm, just released the findings of its October 2011 study on smartphones and tablets. Apple's iPhone and iPad were the most visually appealing, drew the most attention, and if cost were not an issue, are the ones…
It is an article of faith that small businesses drive the U.S. economy, acting as incubators of innovation, and leading all forms of employment growth, especially for immigrants determined to raise their living standards. I’ll always remember New York Mayor…
Facebook has become an important marketing channel to SMBs, according to InfoGroup's quarterly Small Business Marketing Outlook. Twenty percent of those surveyed said Facebook was extremely/very important, and 24 percent said it was somewhat important. Twitter is important, too. Twenty-four…
Yell announced this week that Microsoft MSN Partner and Producer Scott Moore will join Yell Group as its chief digital officer. Moore will report to Yell Group CEO Mike Pocock and will be based at a new Yell office in…
Speaking today at ILM Asia in Singapore, Google's James Sanders made a very direct appeal to directory publishers to resell Google advertising products to SMB advertisers in the Asia-Pacific region. "Globally, Yellow Pages companies are our most successful partners," Sanders…
Just before lunch at ILM Asia, Sidharth Gupta, CEO of Getit Infoservices, shared his company’s vision of the future. It was comprehensive and holistic. In his talk, Gupta spoke of the evolution that is occurring around the world and in…
My colleague Charles Laughlin kicked off ILM Asia -- a conference organized by BIA/Kelsey and the Asian Directory Publisher Association (ADPAI) -- with the results of a survey of business leaders operating in the local search space in Asia. Among…
If you are a major aggregator of daily deals and the industry seems to be slowing down, what do you do next? That’s the question faced by 8coupons, one of the original aggregators. As founder Landy Ung tells us, “we…
Atlanta-based ScoutMob has cut out the high commissions and has launched as an all mobile site as it prepares for the next wave of deals beyond the world defined by Groupon and LivingSocial. The two-year-old, venture-funded site has 40 employees.…
ILM West is shaping up to be one of our biggest and best local events ever. There is so much going on. We’ve already announced some key people, like our opening keynote, Bob Pittman, CEO, Clear Channel; Zorik Gordon, CEO,…
Tele Directories, a Yellow Pages ad solutions provider, is set to launch its new local search directory for Brunei Yellow Pages, www.yp.com.bn, next week. The new site is based on the ImmersiFind 2.0 platform, an online directory search application that…
