For local businesses, letting a phone number or address go stale online is a bigger problem than they may realize.
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Auction giant eBay is launching a new service called 'eBay Now,' which offers same-day delivery on local purchases.
New York City-based Yext, which offers a simple way to control your business data across local search publishers, announced today it has landed an additional $27 million in a fifth round of funding.
Yext says it will use the funding …
Local business reviews are at your beck-and-call on Apple’s iPhone 4S, thanks to deeper ties between mobile virtual assistant Siri and Yelp’s reviews service.
Yelp, one of a group of third-party services to be integrated into the Siri experience at …
Yelp filed for an initial public offering today. Here are some of the interesting numbers in the filing.
Net revenue for the first nine months of 2011 was $58.4 million, up 80 percent from a year earlier. About $40 million …
New York City-based Centzy makes it easy for you to find the best place to get that haircut you’ve been putting off. And unlike Yelp, it has accurate pricing about local companies to let you make a fully informed decision.…
Popular check-in application Foursquare announced today on its blog that as of last week it has more than half a million businesses signed up and offering specials.
Businesses looking to take advantage of customers using Foursquare to check in to …
Loopt, an early leader in location-based services, today announced the launch of Loopt u-Deals, a feature that allows consumers to request daily deals from local businesses.
The feature will enable any consumer to request that a business launch a daily …
Textingly, a company that let’s businesses manage text messages to customers, today announced it has launched a live chat tool for businesses to engage with customers via text in real-time from the web.
The company officially launched last year around …
Facebook Places, the feature that allows users to check in and share their location, may be winning the hearts and dollars of local businesses, according to a MerchantCircle quarterly report of more than 8,000 U.S. local businesses.
First reported by …
Marissa Mayer,Vice President of Search Product and User Experience for Google, may be changing roles and focusing on location and local services, according to Bloomberg.
Mayer started working for Google in 1999 and was the company’s first female engineer focusing …
