Moore Joins Yell as CDO
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…
ILM Asia: Google Pitches Partnership
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…
ILM Asia: Getit’s Ambitious Transition
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…
ILM Asia: Time to Transform Is Now
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…
8coupons Relaunches Amid Daily Deal Slowdown
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…
ScoutMob: Mobile Deals, Flat Lead Fees
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.…
The ILM West Roster Keeps Building (Dec. 12-14 San Francisco)
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 to Launch New Local Search Directory Using Immersifind Platform
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…
Global Yellow Pages Ltd. Will Expand to New Zealand
Global Yellow Pages Ltd. announced its expansion into New Zealand this week. As part of the move, the company will incorporate a new, wholly owned subsidiary in New Zealand, known as Global YP Ltd. It subscribes 100 ordinary shares for…
Yellowbook CEO Walsh to Step Down
Joe Walsh, the executive who arguably did more than anyone to make the Yellow Pages a competitive industry in the United States, has resigned as CEO of Yellowbook, the U.S. division of U.K.-based Yell Group. Walsh has been with Yellowbook…
New Google Mobile (Local) Ad Formats
Google Mobile Ads senior product manager Surojit Chatterjee just posted details on the Google Mobile Ads blog about a new set of ad formats. They're listed below, but it's worth pointing out that many of them are local in nature.…
More Great Mobile Data From Mary Meeker
I just got finished watching KPCB’s Mary Meeker give her semi-annual data dump at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. As always, it was quite comprehensive and quite good.
And as in the past, much of it focused on mobile connectivity, device sales and the overall marketplace disruption we’re seeing come out of the mobile sector.
“We’re in the middle of one of those once in every 10-20 year shifts,” she said. “Mobile connectivity is at the center of that, and mobile devices just nearly outshipped PCs.”
Being somewhere between a few of my own presentations, I’ll give a few highlights and save the rest for later. Indeed, these slides will be a key part of lots of presentations you’ll see in the coming months.
Below are a selection of the mobile slides (only about 10 of the 70 total slides she showed). Most of them are after the break, to save room. And the entire presentation is available on Scribd.
LivingSocial, Clear Channel Team for On-Air Deal Mentions
A new partnership between Clear Channel and LivingSocial is seeking to leverage the power of on-air personalities on 500 Clear Channel radio stations. The personalities will rap about the deals in unscripted segments. It would be interesting to know what…
Deeper Dive on X.commerce: Adobe, Kenshoo and Facebook
Yesterday, we alluded to some of the developer partnerships eBay announced for its new X.commerce platform. They were paraded out in greater detail following John Donahoe's keynote, representing the first big functionality injections to the platform. As background, X.commerce is…
Datasphere: New Focus on SMB ‘Adjacencies’ Like Coupons, Events
We’ve long known that coupons provide real traction for SMB advertising. Nothing beats a customer walking through the door with a coupon in hand. But a lot of SMB website publishers haven’t really focused on them. DataSphere, on the other…
The Berry Co. Names John S. Fischer as Interim President and CEO
Yellow Pages publisher The Berry Co., announced today that John S. Fischer, currently the company's general counsel and secretary, will be appointed as the company's interim president and CEO. The news comes on the heels of the company's energence from…
Local Offer Network, Cardinal Health Partner for B2B Deals
As deals verticalize, we’re intrigued by opportunities for B2B plays. MarketSharing is offering deals tailored for SMBs (office cleaning discounts, office copier repair, etc.). Now, Cardinal Health, a Fortune 20 company, has launched a pilot with Local Offer Network to…
John Donahoe: The X.commerce Master Plan Revealed
I'm at eBay's X.commerce developer conference where CEO John Donahoe kicked things off by introducing what X.commerce is and what it hopes to become. Just like eBay opened up PayPal last year for third-party developers to integrate payments into their…
NeuStar Buys TargusInfo, Parent of Localeze, for $650 Million (Updated)
TargusInfo, a major direct marketing tools provider and the parent company of Localeze, a "Big 3" provider of business listings, will be acquired by NeuStar for $650 million in cash. The deal enhances NeuStar's positioning as a leader in authentication…
What’s eBay Up To?
For the next few days I'll be at eBay's X.commerce Innovate Developer Conference in San Francisco, where we'll see lots of announcements that bring together its platform. X.commerce is meant to give retailers of all sizes better tools to conduct…