Classified Ventures, the holding company for Cars.com, Homescape, Apartments.com, RentalHomesPlus and HomeGain that is jointly owned by McClatchy, A.H. Belo Corp., Gannett Co., Tribune Co. and The Washington Post Co. is now valued at $338 million. The valuation, contained in…
Following closely behind the TKG report and forecast on the growth of SMB video advertising, The Wall Street Journal writes today about the opportunity. It's a good introductory glimpse into the medium and how it has been growing with lowered…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog last week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Old Online Services Never Die, They Just Fade Away France Telecom is finally pulling the plug on…
Online menus are a good thing, and a number of companies, mostly regionally oriented, have tried to aggregate them and sell advertising and delivery services around them. I am a big user of MenuShark in my area.At least two companies…
France Telecom is finally pulling the plug on the 26-year-old Minitel service, which it launched in France in 1982. (Actually, Minitel is really 15 years older than that according to SEC filings: "Under an advertising sales agreement entered into in 1967,…
Sebastien Provencher takes an interesting look at UrbanSpoon's iPhone application and also poses the question, have we already jumped the shark with mobile local search on the iPhone? This question relates more to the volume of apps vs. early adoption…
On Thursday's second-quarter and first-half earnings call, Yellow Pages Group CEO Marc Tellier made it abundantly clear that his company’s acquisition of Volt Information Sciences was driven by the need to secure strategic technologies and not to gain a toehold in…
As many of us have read over the past week, some major hotel chains -- Hyatt and Hyatt Place Hotels, Omni and some Starwood properties -- have made the decision to remove Yellow Pages directories from their hotel rooms. (Although a…
WellcomeMat isn't the latest player to enter the SMB video space, but it is starting to get more attention as the medium itself picks up. As TurnHere, Mixpo and a few others do to varying degrees, the three-year-old company focuses mostly…
TMP Directional Marketing, an interactive and print advertising agency specializing in local services and franchises like HoneyBaked Ham and The Men’s Wearhouse, is seeing a slight rise in verticalization, more performance-based solutions and ever increasing use of online promotions to…
The latest nugget of data has been released from the folks at Palore. This set shows the monthly ad spends from a sample of 6,000 advertisers in San Francisco and New York within the Yellow Pages headings of beauty &…
Cable video, voice and broadband provider Comcast is set to buy Daily Candy for a reported $125 million. Daily Candy specializes in daily electronic newsletters catered to affluent women in urban areas. The focus is mostly on fashion, food and…
Today, TurnHere announced the appointment of Bud Rosenthal as CEO. Rosenthal previously held VP positions at Yahoo! Small Business Services and Real Networks' Rhapsody music division. He also founded BigStep and was most recently CEO of Bessemer Ventures-backed job board…
MerchantCircle announced today that it will offer a Web site hosting service on top of its existing set of local listing products. Known as Instant Website, it will offer the 550,000 companies that have MC listings, Web site creation and…
Local.com said during an earnings call today that it now has 3,500 direct advertisers, largely sold by a team of 100 outside sales personnel. It has also reached a plateau of more than 18 million monthly unique visitors from organic…
Today, TheFind launched its anticipated iPhone application, called "Where to Shop." The biggest selling points of the application involve the product search that combines location awareness with inventory feeds from Krillion and NearbyNow. As we've written, the iPhone and its…
On the heels of last week's speculative post on monetization opportunities for social networks around location targeting, The Wall Street Journal writes about MySpace's changing monetization strategy. Though it is planning to target users with a more granular set of…
Here are the highlights from the TKG blog last week, in case you missed any posts. Click below to read each post in full. Social Networking and Local: How's It Gonna Happen? In local, there have also been some moves…
Scripps Network Digital's new real estate site, FrontDoor.com, has developed an impressive list of ways real estate pros can use video. Presenting at Inman's Real Estate Connect conference last week in San Francisco, VP Kelly Rourke said video is critical…
The New York Times writes about jewelry outfit Cartier and its recent social networking activity. This is nothing new for large advertisers and has become a new form of branding that follows consumer activity -- especially among some demographics…