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Nov 22
2011

New at ILM West: Google, Facebook, SoLoMo Day +++

ILM West is shaping up to be one of the great ones. Taking place Dec. 12-14 in downtown San Francisco, ILM West really reflects a sea change in local marketing from advertising to the new hybrid model of advertising and commerce (i.e. prepaid deals, reputation management, mobile app sales etc.). We’ve made some big additions …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Conferences, Deals, Google, HyperLocal, Local Search, Mobile, Money, Newspapers, Research, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, Social Media, Technology, TV/Radio, Verticals, Video, Yahoo, Yellow Pages

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Nov 15
2011

Matchbin Becomes Radiate Media; Focuses on Ad Network & Services

Matchbin has spent $10 million to acquire 800 radio and TV accounts from Navteq’s Radio and TV Group (formely Traffic.com). It has also raised $12 million for working assets from Silicon Valley Bank, and is rebranding the combined entity as Radiate Media. The money to acquire the Navteq broadcaster accounts came from Level Equity, Greycroft …continue reading »

Categories: Mobile, Money, TV/Radio

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Oct 23
2011

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 Living Social. The two year old, venture-funded site has 40 employees. It raised $1.5 Million in a Series A round, and is looking …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Mobile

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Aug 23
2011

Espinosa’s New Project: ‘Appetizer,’ a Mobile App for Restaurants

Fresh on the heels of the sale of Backyard, a local offers company to Pixelfish, entrepreneur Steve Espinosa has assembled a new team to develop “Appetizer,” a new mobile-centric service that enables restaurants to offer instant deals via push notifications. Using the service, which costs $9.95 per month, restaurants can also add menu items and …continue reading »

Categories: Misc, Mobile, Verticals

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Aug 16
2011

SinglePlatform Raises $3.25 Million for Online Restaurant Services

SinglePlatform, which places restaurant search info such as menus, specials and photos, on search engines and social and mobile media, has raised $3.25 million. The new raise is led by DFJ Gotham Ventures with participation from New World Ventures, First Round Capital and RRE Venture. It is on top of $1.2 million raised in February …continue reading »

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Aug 11
2011

Chalkboard Launches Real Time Promotions in U.S.

The appeal of real-time promotions allowing SMBs to add or update a sale or special offer on the fly is fairly apparent. It is a segment that’s been chased after by such players as Google, Yext and others. Add Chalkboard to the list. The year-old, 12-person startup launched with operations in Singapore and Malaysia, where …continue reading »

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Jul 27
2011

Cool Twitter Event: WineTwit’s ‘Virtual Tasting’

Businesses do really well online when they create “events” — as local promotion companies ranging from Zvents to Active.com have discovered. Home Depot has classes. Those are events. Brew pubs have free samples. Those are events, too. And so are REI’s adventure trips. They all pop up on calendars, in search results, and in social …continue reading »

Categories: Mobile, Social Media

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