Peter Krasilovsky's

Local Onliner

Aug 1
2011

Google Buys Dealmap; Validation for Aggregators?

Google has acquired Dealmap, a deals aggregator and exchange, and will presumably use it to complement its own sourcing of deals for Google Offers, the daily deal site now in New York, The Bay Area and Portland and coming soon to Austin, Boston, Denver, Seattle and Washington, DC. Terms were not disclosed. Dealmap, a 15 …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Google

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Jun 9
2010

8Coupons Launches The DealBot; Scans Web for Offers

8Coupons, the 2 ½ year old New York-based coupon aggregator, today announced that it has launched The DealBot, which crawls the Web for specific deals. Deals found by The DealBot are added to 8Coupons’ geo-located “MoneyMap” showing deals and merchant locations. Users can weigh in on coupons by affirmatively voting on a section called “Is …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Local Search, Mobile, Shopping/Transactions, Social Media

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May 11
2010

Center’d Launches The Deal Map; ‘Price, Location and Sentiment’

Center’d, the local/social events and city guide site, has consistently reported growing traffic. But in its three year existence, the site has never really found a niche that would set it apart from the competition. The site, however, has kept on hammering away at local/social trends, with a strong emphasis on sentiment analysis and local …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, HyperLocal, Local Search, Mapping, Shopping/Transactions

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Jan 29
2010

Center’d Focuses on Local’s ‘Content Overload’

Center’d started its mission in June 2008 like most city guides, albeit one largely aimed at women and planning. But over time, the local space has changed. And the site itself has refocused to meet “the missing pieces” in local. CEO Jennifer Dulski and CTO Chandu Thota, in a conversation with us, say they’d encountered …continue reading »

Categories: Misc

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Dec 24
2009

Center’d Raises $1.875 Million in New Round

The year- end money deals continue. Today, the San Jose Business Journal reports that Center’d has raised another $1.875 million on top of the $6.5 million it has previously raised. The two-year-old, Moms friendly local search and events planning site, initially launched as “FatDoor,” is lead by former Yahoo Marketplaces head Jennifer Dulski and former …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Money, Social Media

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