Both MySpace and Facebook announced new ad platforms yesterday, signaling an increased interest in the ad targeting abilities of social networking. Though there are some privacy concerns with this type of targeting, both platforms will seek to utilize users' level…
I listened to the replay of last week's Idearc Media third-quarter earnings call, and a few items stood out. First, Idearc made the assertion that through nine months of 2007, most of its challenges in the print business were the…
Google made the official announcement today that it will launch an open source mobile operating system called Android. This is named after the company Google acquired in 2005, whose former founder, Andy Rubin, is now Google's director of mobile products.…
In case you missed any posts, here is a weekly recap of select happenings in local search, Yellow Pages and online media. Read below to read each post in full. Gannett’s Metromix Investment: 'Under $10 Million' Gannett is teaming with…
An article in the Australian newspaper confirms that Sensis will need to pursue acquisitions in order to meet the five-year growth objectives set out by Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo back in 2005. Telstra is Australia's leading telecom and is the parent…
Toronto-based voice search technology provider Call Genie announced today that it will acquire European DA technology provider BTSLogic for $1.5 million. The press release is somewhat unclear on details of how this will play out, but it states generally that…
As we speculated a few weeks ago, FastCall 411 has officially taken its product portable so it can "live" on other local search sites. The technology is a twist on click-to-call in preventing users from having to go down a…
There is a lot of buzz today around a Wall Street Journal article (sub req.) that reveals the latest in Google's impending entrance into the mobile world. As reported in a recent New York Times article and supported in a…
Yellowpages.com today announced the release of a mobile local search site specifically designed to work on the iPhone and iPod Touch. This will be a mobile web based local search site accessible from the devices' Safari web browser, and will…
Zillow announced this morning that it will integrate a new ad targeting feature known as HomeDirect, which will serve geographically, demographically and contextually relevant ads within individual home listings. This will come in three flavors; targeting individual homes that its…
3-D mapping company EveryScape today launched its product for Boston, Miami, Aspen and New York. We've written a great deal about the potential for 3-D mapping to become a centerpiece of the local search experience in published reports and blog…
France's PagesJaunes has long been the dominant player in the country's print directory market, but in recent quarters, what was a growing business now is struggling to generate positive revenue growth. Online, however, continues to be a strong suit for…
In case you missed any, here is a sampling of posts from the TKG blog this week. Click below to read each post in full. Yellow Pages Odds n' Ends Charles Laughlin takes a look at the week in Yellow…
The Nordic directory publisher Eniro announces its third-quarter and nine-month 2007 earnings on Thursday, and while the news for print in Norway continues to be bad, print appears to have stabilized in Sweden, the publisher's largest market. While print is…
The Nordic directory publisher Eniro announces its third-quarter and nine-month 2007 earnings on Thursday, and while the news for print in Norway continues to be bad, print appears to have stabilized in Sweden, the publisher's largest market. While print is…
I've collected a number of Yellow Pages-related items over the past week or so that are worth noting. So here it goes: The Texas ad agency FKM has launched a new unit to focus on interactive Yellow Pages and related online…
I've collected a number of Yellow Pages-related items over the past week or so that are worth noting. So here it goes: The Texas ad agency FKM has launched a new unit to focus on interactive Yellow Pages and related online…
Mr. Local SEO Andrew Shotland writes today about vertically oriented Web site development and hosting products for small businesses. This is an interesting concept because it brings together two local trends we've written extensively about: Webification and verticalization. First, with…
R.H. Donnelley announced on its third-quarter earnings call Thursday that concurrent with first-quarter earnings next year it will pay a dividend equal to 25 percent of free cash flow. The publisher took some heat recently when it used money that…
After all the recent speculation that Facebook will create the next G,Y,M bidding war that will put the Right Media and DoubleClick deals to shame, news just hit the wires that Microsoft will be the one to invest in (not…