Mobile Search is Local Search
Speaking at a Mobile Marketing & Advertising event in Las Vegas to coincide with CTIA Wireless 2010, Diana Pouliot – director of mobile advertising at Google – revealed that one-third of all Google...
View ArticleBIA/Kelsey Marketplaces 2010: Key Takeaways From Day 1
Rick Ducey, Chief Strategy Officer at BIA/Kelsey just listed his takeaway thoughts from day one of the Marketplaces 2010 conference: * Video works AT&T : 25% more tracked calls to businesses with...
View ArticleThe Evolution of White Pages: Facial Recognition?
Face.com announced the release of their API this morning: In this open alpha stage, we’re letting any developer tap into our face detection and face recognition tech through simple REST API calls....
View ArticleAre Newspapers Outsourcing Core Features to Foursquare?
Megan Garber from the Nieman Journalism Lab explains in details how the Wall Street Journal uses Foursquare to offer geo-localized news: [The Wall Street Journal] has also been making regular use of...
View ArticleFour out of Five Cell Phones to Integrate GPS by End of 2011
New data from iSuppli: With cell phones increasingly becoming the nexus of the burgeoning markets for navigation and Location Based Services (LBS), the use of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology...
View ArticleIs There A Mobile-Only Yellow Pages Company in Our Future?
Flickr picture by Dale Gillard The Yellow Pages Association just released new ComScore data regarding business directories access on mobile. Excerpt from the press release: The number of mobile...
View ArticleAndroid Rapidly Gaining Mobile OS Market Shares
From a post on GigaOM this morning: (…) Nielsen said among recent acquirers of smartphones in the last six months through August, Android was the top platform in the U.S. with 32 percent of new...
View ArticleJeremy Stoppelman (Yelp's CEO): "Mobile is the Future of our Business"
Excellent keynote to start the first day of the BIA/Kelsey conference. Jeremy Stoppelman, Yelp’s CEO, shared with us a lot of interesting data points regarding their business. How they define what they...
View ArticlecomScore: The State of the Local Search Nation
On day 2 of the BIA/Kelsey ILM 2011 conference, Gillian Heltai, Senior Director at comScore presented a series of interesting data points to attendees: Total online searches grew 9% year-over-year to...
View ArticleBIA/Kelsey ILM West 2012 Conference: A Preview
In less than two weeks, BIA/Kelsey is organizing its ILM (stands for Interactive Local Media) West 2012 Conference, a must-attend for anyone in the local media space. Held from December 4 to December...
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