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With 300,000 delivery and takeout restaurants in the U.S., the online food ordering space is definitely heating up, with New York Magazine’s MenuPages launching in many markets, and allmenus.com still playing (although with leadership changes). Now coming on strong is…
In the first of many possible partnerships with local media companies, Centro has teamed up with Morris Digital Works to create a network that allows advertisers to place geo- and vertical- based ads across a broad spectrum of local and…
The Internet Yellow Pages business model has largely refocused on hosting small-business websites, and upselling from that position. At least, it has for Yellowbook. Yellowbook Chief New Media Officer Pat Marshall, speaking at the recent Borrell conference in New York,…
We're greatly looking forward to seeing everyone in Boston at ILM East March 21-23 (i.e., Monday-Wednesday). Boston Globe Publisher Chris Mayer is set to welcome everybody to Beantown, and discuss Boston.com's local search, city guide and mobile services. Then we'll…
The deal-a-day space has gotten more interesting, as major media companies are diving in for their share of the action. Today The New York Times, Comcast’s Daily Candy, Thrillist and Meredith Corp. announced they’d use the deal-a-day platform provided by…
SMB reseller WebVisible went through difficult changes last year, downsizing from 320 to 130 employees and retreating from an ambitious direct marketing program. But it has kept core partners intact; key members of the CEO's installed executive team have stayed…
Cars still need to be sold by salespeople and that never changes. And most people still want to get on the phone to talk to their dealer. What does change is the ability to find cars on the Web, notes…
Mobile now accounts for a third of AT&T’s local search, according to AT&T President and CEO David Krantz, who was speaking at the Borrell show last week in New York. “We truly believe that mobile is bigger than the Web,”…
Groupon’s spectacular growth has now been quantified. According to an internal memo leaked to The Wall Street Journal, Groupon had $475 Million in revenues in 2010, and $760 million worldwide, with a presence in 35 countries. It also had 51…
The Dealmap reports that after nine months, it is off to a healthy start as a source and distributor of local and daily deals. It reports 11 million daily API queries and 1.4 million users -- including the users of…
Reply.com has carved out a niche among online marketing companies by offering an auction marketplace for locally targeted consumer traffic for various verticals (home improvement, autos, real estate, insurance, etc.). Now, it is set on building a mobile strategy. The…
The program for ILM East March 21-23 in Boston is nearing completion with the addition of a great new keynote: Constant Contact CEO Gail Goodman. Goodman joins a roster of nearly 50 featured speakers, including opening keynoter David Weinberger, a…
ILM East in Boston March 21-23 is shaping up to be one of the most substantive conferences we’ve ever put together. Leaders have been confirmed from most of the major companies in local. Just added is Google’s Ben Wood, who…
Local sales leaders are now jumping into the deal-a-day phenomenon. Yesterday, Citysearch said it would push deals hard to its thousands of advertisers. Today, ReachLocal announced that it was buying DealOn Media. Specific terms weren't disclosed, but ReachLocal is valuing…
Citysearch is getting into the deals space, offering a mix of curated daily deals, coupons and other offers from providers such as Groupon, The Dealmap, Restaurant.com as well as from its own base of thousands of advertisers. CityGrid advertisers may…
Jer’s Gourmet Chocolates of Solana Beach has the world’s best pretzel chocolate balls, and Jer, a former IBM EVP, can be found all over North County San Diego hawking his handmade creations and talking chocolate. I’ve seen him at Costco…
BuzzLabs, a Seattle-based rep management service initially funded by CityGrid Media, has rolled out a new self-serve tier for SMBs. CEO Phillip Lee told us that the year-old, six-person company has been mainly working with large restaurant chains. But it…
The program for ILM East, March 21-23 in Boston, is now mostly set, with a lot of action-packed sessions and speakers that represent the state of the art -- and also the fast, fast, fast evolution of local from even…
AOL will buy The Huffington Post for $300 million in cash and $15 million in stock, and put Arianna Huffington in charge of the AOL Local sites (MapQuest, Patch, MovieFone) as well as its growing collection of opinionated tech and…
