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Local Onliner

Mar 15
2010

Goby.com: Search Engine Focuses on Local Events + Travel

Events are a vertical that cuts across many segments: travel, retail, sports, entertainment, education, dining, culture and others. Major players include specialists such as Zvents, Eventful, Americantowns.com and Center’d. City sites such as Citysearch and Yelp are active in the space as well. A new one for us is Goby.com, a venture-backed firm that comes …continue reading »

Categories: Google, Local Search, Shopping/Transactions, Verticals

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Feb 24
2009

Entrepreneur Watch:Cazoodle Crawls Vertical Listings

Cazoodle, a new listings-based service, has launched from the incubator at The University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (yes, Marc Andreeson’s former territory). The site currently crawls for apartment listings and shopping. Additional vertical categories such as events are anticipated, notes Professor Kevin Chang, who is supervising seven graduate students on the project. “We have the …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Google, HyperLocal, Local Search, Misc, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions, Technology, Verticals, Yellow Pages

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Oct 16
2008

Eventful CEO on $10 Million Funding, Mobile, and Ticketmaster Deal

Eventful, which competes with Zvents for leadership (and affiliates) in the fast changing local events marketplace, has just completed a new $10 million C round lead by Telefonica Capital. Also participating are alumni investors, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Bay Partners. In all, $19.6 million has been raised. CEO Jordan Glazier notes that the company …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Local Search, Mobile, Money

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Sep 30
2008

Zvents Gets $24 Million; Boosts ‘What, When and Where’ Vision

Zvents, which is seeking to transform the events category to a broader “what, when and where” category that encompasses local entertainment, organizations and businesses, has announced $24 million in new funding from AT&T (i.e. wireless and Yellow Pages), Nokia Growth Capital and NAVTEQ. The funding is on top of $7.2 million previously raised from Vantage …continue reading »

Categories: Local Search, Mobile, Money, Sales Channels

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Jun 18
2008

Dulski’s New Thing: Events and Plans Front and Center’d

Is there room for a new, locally-oriented social network if it is more practical than Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, LinkedIn et al? That’s what Norwest Partners and Keynote Ventures are betting $6.5 million on with the launch this week of Center’d, formerly known as FatDoor. The service is headed up by former Yahoo! Marketplaces head Jennifer …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Mapping, Money, Newspapers, Research, Shopping/Transactions, Verticals, Yahoo, Yellow Pages

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Nov 2
2007

Gannett’s Metromix Investment: ‘Under $10 Million’

Gannett is teaming with Tribune on a 50/50 basis to take the latter’s Metromix entertainment site national, and reach into the highly valued 21-24 year old market that doesn’t typically use newspapers–online or off. The JV plans to cover the top 30-35 markets within a year, including invasions of cities where neither media company has …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Local Search, Money, Newspapers, Sales Channels, TV/Radio, Verticals

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