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May 21
2013

GrubHub, Seamless Merge; Mobile Drives Food Ordering Growth

Photo: CNN Online restaurant ordering and discovery giants GrubHub and Seamless have agreed to merge their operations, creating a single company. Chicago-based GrubHub currently serves more than 20,000 food ordering establishments in 500 cities, while New York-based Seamless serves more than 12,000 food ordering establishments in 400 U.S. cities plus London. GrubHub CEO Matt Maloney, …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Mobile, Money, Shopping/Transactions, Social Media, Verticals

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May 15
2013

Gib Olander’s Local Viewpoints Gets Business Feedback, Reviews

Former Localeze business develoment guy Gib Olander is back in the game, this time switching his focus from local business listings innovation to maximizing effective local business reviews. Think of a variation of “Net Promoter Scores” for local business. Olander’s new company, Local Viewpoints has won seed funding from Wavetable Labs. It launched at the …continue reading »

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Apr 22
2013

SupportLocal: 27 Local Questions, 27 Local Recommendations

Facebook is the undisputed king of social media. The average Facebook user has 124 friends, and 70 percent of its users have “liked” at least one local business. But at this point, how local is Facebook really? And as an open network, it the ideal medium for local recommendations? This is the soft underbelly to …continue reading »

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Apr 22
2013

LA Times Columnist Calls out Yelp for ‘Suppressing’ Reviews

I think Yelp is a fantastic service and a top resource, especially when I am travelling. But it was disturbing to read a column in The Los Angeles Times on Saturday by Sandy Banks, which suggests that Yelp is suppressing good reviews, and implies that there is a linkage between ad sales and allowing good …continue reading »

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Apr 17
2013

LSA 2013: Facebook’s Dan Levy on Importance of Local

“Local search is really important for Facebook,” with a major boom in local business adoption, and the synonymous nature of mobile usage and local search, notes Facebook’s Dan Levy, who spoke April 16 at The Local Search Association conference in Las Vegas. Levy says there are 15 million SMBs on Facebook now, and 680 million …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Deals, Social Media

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Jan 27
2013

Converting Facebook SMB Pages to Websites

Various companies have built SMB websites and landing pages by scraping the Web. PaperG comes to mind. How about using Facebook. BIA/Kelsey data from our Local Commerce Monitor shows that more than 40 percent of U.S. SMBs have Facebook pages. Many, however, still don’t have standalone websites. Exai, a spin off of TrafficMedia, is pursuing …continue reading »

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Dec 30
2012

CMO.com’s Expert Panel: 2013 All About ‘Better Data’ and ‘Better Content’

At this time of year, a lot of us in the analysis and strategic research world are thinking about our predictions for 2013. Some of our predictions will be based on data trends; other predictions will be based on gut instinct vis a vis the relationships between marketing developments, tech developments, and the players that …continue reading »

Categories: Misc, Social Media

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