According to new research released by British Car Auctions, used car buyers are apparently quite content. According to the research, nearly 96 percent were "very and/or quite" satisfied with their used car purchase. The survey of 2,900 drivers indicated that…
I ran across the new (to me) site EcoMetro, which is attempting to build an advertising business around green. This from its Web site: At the core of EcoMetro is the idea that many people want to buy green products…
There's an interesting "new" company that's been launched to deal with one of life's headaches and frankly an afterthought -- parking. ParkingCarma, now in beta, sets out to make sure there's a parking spot waiting for you at the local BART…
Yesterday in The New York Times, Borders Books announced that it has partnered with Ripple to put digital monitors in hundreds of its stores across the country. By the end of February, the company expects two monitors for its Borders TV…
Local Matters today launched its localguides.com beta. The site will focus on delivering a richer local search experience. It was clear when I saw the site earlier this year that CEO Perry Evans and team spent considerable time and energy…
A few interesting pieces of news came out of the Yellow Pages world today: Telstra has bailed out of the bidding for Telecom New Zealand's Yellow Pages Group. This comes as no surprise, as intense bidding has pushed the…
Next time you refer to your cellphone, pause and ask yourself, "Is this a Sprint phone or a Nokia phone?" Seems a bit trivial, but how wireless phone subscribes think of their phones will become an increasingly material matter in…
InfoSpace continued the product evolution of its Find It mobile application with its latest release earlier this week, offering better features for consumers and a performance ad model for advertisers. This version of Find It offers consumers "eyes free driving…
Donna Bogatin had an interesting blog post yesterday based on comments made by Sheryl Sandberg, VP of global online sales and operations for Google. Ever since I attended the Google University in December 2002 with former Kelsey analyst Greg Sterling,…
Kate Bowler of Platefood points out that Platefood Performance is a PFP platform and not, as I suggested, a local search platform. It may well be that the Platefood engine will be licensed by World Directories to complement the Local…
News from World Directories that the company has chosen Local Matters to power its local search platform. This is a particularly interesting win for Perry Evans and team as it presumably beat out competitors Platefood — a collaboration of Sensis…
Today there's a report that three private equity firms, including Thomas H. Lee Partners, are gathering to consider a purchase of Verizon's Yellow Pages business. This would be a significant change of plans, since most observers expect the business to…
As speculated for sometime now, Verizon Communications filed the necessary papers to spin its Yellow Pages business — Verizon Information Services (to be named Directories Corp.) — out to the public market. The paperwork with the SEC was filed today.…
Where Do Moviegoers Turn First for Movie Listings?New research conducted by The Kelsey Group shows that U.S. households are turning to a variety of offline and online local information sources to find movie listings. With "Superman Returns" topping $100 million…
Dave Swanson, chairman and CEO of RHD, was recognized as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Carolina region. Three years ago Swanson and team packed up their boxes and moved from Purchase, N.Y., to Cary,…
Univision Communications, the largest Spanish language media company in the U.S. was sold to a group of private equity players for $12.3B. This comes after intense bidding by Grupo Televisa — a large media company in Mexico. Univision is the…
Before leaving the Bay Area this week to go to Atlanta and Seattle, I needed to make a hotel reservation in Seattle. It was suggested I try the Westin Seattle, so I went to the hotel's Web site — it's…
Tomorrow, Ingenio's intellectual capital monetization machine — or Ether as Ingenio named it — goes live. Ingenio was once Keen.com — an early entrant to the peer-to-peer connectivity space. Ether is designed to help individuals leverage their IP capacity by…
A nice ad in today's WSJ Marketing Section from Google suggests the global search engine company wants to ramp up its sales capacity to "blue chip" clients. The ad, leveraging the familiar primary colors and clean design of Google's general…
As posted elsewhere The N.Y. Times ran a lengthy story about the shareholder battle at the Tribune Co. Much was made at the time of the acquisition/merger of the Times Mirror and Tribune companies about the possible synergies the "deal"…
