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Jun 9
2011

Coupons.com Gets $200 Million; $100 Million is for Tech, Staff Development

With Groupon going public, the promotions space is getting tremendously revved up. Hoping to get in on the action are promotional relatives of the deals space, including providers of grocery “cents off” coupons, retail weekly sales (circulars), retail rewards, and Buy One Get One Free. While most of these don’t do much with local advertisers, …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Mobile, Money, Newspapers

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Jun 2
2011

Patch: 194% Growth in 6 Months; New Mobile, Deals Focus

AOL’s Patch.com, which is now in 813 markets and is meeting internals goals and poised for success, according to President Warren Webster, who addressed San Diego Interactive Day yesterday. Webster says that Patch is now reaching 6.9 million unique visitors, and has seen 194 percent growth in the past six months. The site will continue …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, HyperLocal, Mobile

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Apr 25
2011

Where 2.0: Facebook Places Focuses on ‘Pushing Up the Stack’

Facebook Head of Groups Justin Shaffer told attendees at Where 2.0 that one of Facebook’s goal is to develop the largest database of “interesting” places. The collection of places has “really been the focus” of his division for the past four-to-six months he said. At the same time, the database of places is probably something …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Mapping, Mobile, Money, Social Media, Verticals

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Apr 21
2011

Groupon’s Mihir Shah at Where 2.0: Tech Unit ‘Deeply Integrated’

Chicago-based Groupon is pushing hard in Silicon Valley to build a major tech presence on the back of Mobility, a mobile services firm purchased last year. One piece of evidence: a billboard on the 101 touting the company as a place to work. At Where 2.0 today in Santa Clara, VP and GM Mihir Shah …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Deals, Mobile

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Apr 21
2011

Where 2.0: FourSquare’s Crowley Envisions How Service Grows to 50 Million Users

FourSquare now has over seven million users and a half billion check ins a year. But founder Dennis Crowley has a vision for how the service might use the fact of “being in your pocket” to eventually reach 50 million users. Speaking at O’Reilly’s Where 2.0 online mapping conference in Santa Clara, Crowley said the …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Mobile, Social Media

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Mar 9
2011

AT&T’s David Krantz: Mobile Now 1/3 of AT&T’s Local Search

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,” said Krantz, noting that AT&T has some significant head starts over rivals as a vertically …continue reading »

Categories: Mobile, Yellow Pages

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Feb 24
2011

The DealMap Sees Big Future for Deal Aggregation; Tallies 1.4 Million Users

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 675,000 installs of the mobile apps. It also has 271 developers using the API, including many …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Mobile

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