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Potts Launches Effort to Make Hyperlocal Into a Real Business

Hyperlocal sites are well intentioned, and most have some kind of business plan. But they haven’t really focused much on making money. That’s where GrowthSpur, a new company, comes in. Launched by former Washington Post executive and BackFence founder Mark…

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Diller: Vertical Search Represents Key Opportunity

A year since IAC’s spin-off of several businesses, IAC Chairman Barry Diller, during a 2Q earnings call, saw some bright spots, including ServiceMagic, which saw a 5 percent jump in service requests. Diller also expressed optimism that the company had…

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TwitArea Helps You Tweet Local Businesses

Praized Media continues its march toward blending Twitter and local. The latest product is a browser plugin called TwitArea that lets users tweet about places. Specifically, the plugin plants an "insert place" button under the Twitter.com text box. When clicked,…

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Microsoft/Yahoo Deal Announced

As speculated yesterday, the search deal between Yahoo and Microsoft has been officially announced. Many of the expected terms apply, and the official release has lots of detail and video addresses from Steve Ballmer and Carol Bartz (notice she mentions…

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ServiceMagic, Meredith Team on Targeting Women

Women have become a prime target for service referrals. The appeal of Angie’s List's premium gated community is largely oriented around them. Now ServiceMagic is ramping it up. The IAC company, which recently launched an ambitious TV campaign, has announced…

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Village Voice Media Jump-Starting Online Efforts

The conventional wisdom is that alternative weeklies have their best days behind them.  But that’s clearly not the position of Village Voice Media, which owns 15 titles reaching about one-quarter of the 7.6 million alt weekly readers in the U.S.…

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CBS Sports Taking Out Local Domain Names (Too)

ESPN, which revealed a plan this week to launch a series of local sports Web sites, may soon be contending with local CBS Sports sites as well. As reported by the Fang’s Bites blog, ESPN has registered at least 26…

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Google Brings More Local to AdWords

Google announced today a new feature in its AdWords search marketing product that will let advertisers automatically list their address as part of their text ad. Known as "local extensions," it allows businesses to link their AdWords account to their…

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Ambassador Media Files Chapter 11

Ambassador Media has filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court of New York's Southern District. The publisher, which operates in the five boroughs of New York City and surrounding areas, published nine directory titles in 2008 with…

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