Mobile Local Monetization: How & Where is it Happening?

Source: Search Engine Watch

Of all the topics in the hot mobile location space, mobile monetization seems to be the biggest question mark. Though ad networks and search engines like Google see real revenue, mobile local leaders like Foursquare and Yelp haven't done much ...
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Square To Get Tough Competition From Groupon & Paypal

Source: WATBlog

Square might have been the first one to develop mobile payment processing for retailers but it will definitely not be the only one this year. Both PayPal and Groupon have jumped on the mobile payment idea and are rolling out their ...
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Short Sellers Hit Internet Stocks

Source: 24x7 Wall St.

For the two weeks that ended on May 15, short sellers hit old and new Internet site companies alike. Among firms that had IPOs recently, the short interest in Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA) rose 35% to 56.6 million. Shares sold sh ...
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Dell Latitude 10 Windows 8 Tablet Leaks
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SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft docks at ISS Today [Update]
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Facebook Camera App launched
Facebook pushes ahead with taking over photos on mobile phones with new app. Facebook already owns the biggest photo sharing service with Instagram.

 

Facebook, ‘Titanic” Of IPOs, Could Poison Tech Company Pipeline

Source: International Business Times

Faced with the disastrous fallout from the initial public offering of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, other technology companies that had been waiting to go next may reconsider. Or, unlike Facebook , ...
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The Facebook IPO Boondoggle

Source: The Epoch Times

A television anchor stands in front of screens showing the start of trading in Facebook shares at the Nasdaq stock exchange in Times Square on May 18. Facebook shares saw an opening pop fade Friday as the wildly popular social network made its long-antic ...
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Night Life: Happy hour specials at Monsoon

Source: Sacramento Bee

Bartender Nicole Martin muddles fresh strawberries and mint for the signature cocktail at Monsoon, the Dragonfly. The real steal: Choose from a $3 draft beers, $4 house wine and well drinks, $5 Stoli vodka in any flavor, a ...
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Local newspapers' crisis: my hyperlocal site was fine, but it didn't pay - The Guardian

Source: Society of Professional Journalists

Today's extract from What do we mean by local?* is by Richard Jones, a freelance journalist who lectures at Leeds university. He spent six years at Sky News before becoming a stay-at-home father and setting up a hyperlocal website, ...
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Some Santa Monica Residents Upset Over Flight School’s Groupon

Source: CBS Los Angeles

SANTA MONICA (CBS) — Some residents in Santa Monica are furious that the same flight school whose student pilot landed a plane on a house last year recently offered a discount on lessons. Hundreds of Groupo ...
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Groupon Said to Test Credit-Card Reader Rivaling EBay’s PayPal

Source: Bloomberg.com

Groupon Inc., the largest daily coupon website, is testing a credit card-reader for merchants that could vie with similar devices offered by Square Inc. and EBay’s PayPal Inc., a person with knowledge of the matter said. The reader, manufactured by I ...
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