Tag: Local

Banjo: New Mobile App That Hopes to Take Social & Local Mainstream
Because social media is currently one of the hottest topics, everyone wants a piece of it. For this reason, new social sites are rising up continuously. Even though many of these n...
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Google City Pages – Company Continues Cranking Out Local Features
Google has launched new city pages for Portland, Austin, San Diego, and Madison, but will continue to add to the list. City Pages are essentially a place users can go and see infor...
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Google Launches My Places Tab on Google Maps
Google announced the launch of a new tab on Google Maps, called "My Places," which gives users a place where they can see the places they've starred on Google Maps, rated on Google...
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Google Adds Descriptive Phrases to Local Search Results
Google has launched a new feature for Google Maps in the US and Great Britain. The feature displays a few words or phrases that attempt to describe what a place is known for. T...
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Google Looks at Purchasing Habits of Smartphone Users
Google released some interesting stats this week about the purchasing habits of smartphone users, or more specifically, smartphone searchers. This is in the US only, but the study...
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Facebook Ads Gaining Popularity Among Local Businesses
22% of local merchants have used Facebook Ads, and two-thirds of them would use them again, according to a survey from MerchantCi...
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Amazon Local Launches for Daily Deals
Clearly the daily deals space is on fire. That was true even before Groupon filed for its IPO...
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Facebook Places and Check-In Deals Come to Pages
Facebook is making changes that make it easier for businesses to manage their Facebook presence and get customers to engage. InsideFacebook...
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Nokia to Replace Bing Maps Infrastructure?
As you may know, Microsoft and Nokia signed a deal last month, aimed at...
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Microsoft adCenter Getting Some New Local Features
Microsoft adCenter plans to launch new local features for Bing in the U.S. aimed at helping businesses reach local audiences. These include radius targeting for search ads, new loc...
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Blekko Already Powers Search on Topix After Just Six Months of Existence
Blekko announced that it will begin powering the search functionality on local news aggregation site Topix, c...
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Daily Deals Space Gets More Crowded as AT&T Enters the Ring
Add another provider to the growing list of daily deal options for customers and businesses. Believe it or not, this one comes from another established, well-known brand (actually...
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Google Talks Mobile, Local and CPA At Goldman Sachs Con
Here are my notes on the interesting points in Google’s presentation to Goldman Sachs’ Tech and Internet Conference. It’s noteworthy not just for seeing the trends in where they’...
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TalkBin Acquired by Google for Local Business Customer Engagement
Google has acquired a company called TalkBin (spawned from Y Combinator) for an undisclosed sum. Tal...
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Google Panda Update Helps Local Search Results
As we continue to look at the fallout of the Google Panda update (more so since its international...
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