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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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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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Dec 11
2010

ILM:10: Deals as an ‘E Commerce Platform’

In the context of Google’s reported $6 billion acquisition offer to Groupon, questions were raised at ILM:10 about the true potential of Deal a Day beyond its current two or three daily deals and banner ad emails. For Nimble Commerce CEO Prashant Nedungadi, the real potential is moving local advertising into performance based models. “Group …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Deals, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions

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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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