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…
Early next week, we will publish the third and final installment of our newspaper White Paper series. It picks up where we left off in the second part by examining the performance- based advertising models that can apply to newspapers,…
Tribune, Knight Ridder and Gannett's success with CareerBuilder has led to other newspaper companies wanting in on the national recruitment action. As Paid Content reports, CareerBuilder "had a great second quarter with network and affiliate revenues up 42 percent over…
We just saw the official announcement that Mark Canon has moved on from AOL to a new opportunity at Autobytel, where he carries the title "chief product officer." Canon, whom The Kelsey Group has followed for years, joins Jim Riesenbach,…
Cox Search is getting ready to launch new city-specific versions of Kudzu.com, its hybrid Yellow Pages/Review site in San Diego, Phoenix and Las Vegas this fall. It also says that its inaugural site in Atlanta, which launched in October 2005,…
The free community newspaper in Princeton, N.J., is called Town Topics. It has been delivered on Wednesdays to every household in town for the past 60 years. Town Topics has great editorial about the Princeton community and is always chock-full…
This Red Herring article examines the traffic modeling technologies being baked into the navigation systems of Tele-Atlas and Navteq. These are mostly in-car nav systems, but since these two companies are the primary data providers for every major online mapping…
Topix, the news aggregator owned by Tribune, Gannett and (probably) McClatchy, is teaming up with ShopLocal to distribute its retail ads to users on a hyperlocal basis. ShopLocal, a provider of onliner circulars and other local ad services, is owned…
Real estate-related Internet advertising will reach US$2 billion in 2006, or 17.7 percent of all real estate spending, according to a new report from Borrell Associates. The report predicts online will jump to 32.1 percent of all real estate spending…
IAC/InterActiveCorp's Entertainment Book is beginning to make more use of online coupons and exploring better synergies with other IAC divisions. Traditionally, the book has relied solely on direct-to-consumer sales. Local books are typically sold for $24.95 to $45, and proceeds…
Who cares about Chastain Chem-Dry carpet cleaning service in Atlanta? Actually, a lot of people, I would think — from employees and customers to companies Chastain buys from and those that are sold to. In other words, this is an…
We reported in a recent news roundup that smartphone adoption is on the rise. This could be a boon for mobile local search adoption, given hardware features (keypad, larger screen, etc.) that are more conducive to some MoLo applications (see…
Just back from a week's vacation, and in the process of catching up, saw a couple of items online regarding Yell's (U.K.) recent legal action against Yellowikis, which bills itself as an online Yellow Pages directory built on a wiki…
Backfence, the hyper-local news and information site operating in several Washington D.C. suburbs and the Bay Area, is expanding. Chicago will be its third metro area, and it is continuing to go deeper into the suburbs of its existing markets.I…
Google has long since seeped into the mainstream lexicon as a verb. Now it's official.
Today I had the chance to speak with Andy Halliday, CEO of recently launched OurStory — a post-launch follow-up to our initial discussion back in May. The site falls into the social networking category but has an interesting way of…
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.…
Tribe.net is being sold to NBC. The sale marks the official end of an era for a service that at one time was determined to bring Friendster-like social networking to the local level via various city "tribes" run by newspapers,…
DSL subscribers have surpassed cable modem subscribers, according to a survey by The Pew Internet & American Life Project.Pew Director Lee Rainie, speaking June 29 at The Media Giraffe conference at The University of Massachusetts in Amherst, said it was…
Ingenio has linked up with Web search engine Find.com to provide pay-per-call listings in its search results. Pay-per-call is getting more and more attention these days as a valuable source of performance-based marketing, online and off. Click-to-call (the basis of…
