Our good friend and upcoming MLM SF speaker Tobias Dengel was featured on CNBC earlier this week, outside of Apple's WWDC conference. The CEO of WillowTree Apps was interviewed for his predictions on what Apple would announce. He was right…
Not to be cynical about it, but charity has always been great for business. "Charitable marketing," or "altruistic marketing," has been embraced by many of the leading brands, from McDonald's and Ben & Jerry's to the National Football League. It…
Constant Contact has made a really big bet on presence management with the acquisition today of SinglePlatform, a provider of a one-stop "write once, read everywhere" presence management network that provides parsed searching capabilities and services for 600,000 SMBs, including…
So where should a European local media company place its bets when looking across the spectrum of opportunities in social media, mobile and local online commerce? BIA/Kelsey announced today that it has joined forces with the European Association of Search…
Over at Street Fight, my monthly column explores how mobile ads -- despite lots of excitement and media attention -- are still undervalued in terms of ad rates. This is good for advertisers that want to experiment at early stages…
Mobile local promotion and wallet services that marry offers to linked credit card accounts and track usage are proliferating. A partial roster of players includes Plum Rewards, MyFavEats, RewardLoop, AirPay and PunchCard. They're all fighting for a share of smartphone…
The widely anticipated Foursquare redesign went live today (late last night) with some nice enhancements and feature upgrades. It's important to note, however, that there isn't much new functionality. This isn't the pivot some people are making it out to…
Elevation Partners' Roger McNamee -- friend of Bono's, the lead in the failed resurrection of Palm and a winner in the Facebook IPO to the tune of $1.5 billion -- is known as a contrarian thinker. He did not disappoint…
Loyalty and engagement programs are now flooding the local ecosystem. They see themselves as the next step up from daily deals. At the same time, they hope to be more effective than "buy 10 get one free punch cards," according…
Google Offers has just celebrated its first anniversary and now has a presence in 40 markets, says Group Products Manager Nitin Mangtini, who was speaking Tuesday at the Street Fight Summit West conference in San Francisco. Mangtini, who also spoke…
American Eagle Outfitters becomes the latest partner to launch Shopkick nationwide, including its Aerie locations, starting today. The announcement comes on the heels of Target's national rollout that we reported here. American Eagle Outfitters and Aerie shoppers will earn "kicks"…
Yellow Medya, Turkey's Yellow Pages publisher, announced a new partnership agreement today with TomTom Places. The Yellow Pages publisher will serve as the business listing and content provider to the navigation products supplier. In addition, Yellow Medya will serve as…
I'm at Street Fight Summit West today and moderating a panel later on how "big data" and local media are coming together. Meanwhile Peter Krasilovsky and I are working the room and pulling out whatever learnings we can from sessions.…
Repair.com launched its online repair scheduling tool today which allows potential customers to view and compare open appointments using data from its parent site, National Electronics Warranty, LLC. The new venture is an extension of its parent site that provides…
