In the immediate wake of our report on Google mobile ad revenues, TechCrunch reports today that the search giant saw a 2x year-over-year increase in mobile search ad requests (the largest source of its mobile ad revenues) in 2011. Our…
Throughout 2012, we're beefing up our editorial pipeline to get more reports out, on a more frequent basis. This is especially true in mobile, where there is such a great deal of activity and data coming out of the quickly…
On yesterday's AT&T earnings call, CEO Randall Stephenson opened the door to the possibility that the telecom giant would sell off its directories business. Here is what Stephenson said on yesterday's earnings call: "That's one area that we're going to…
U.S. directory and local search player The Berry Co. has scooped up defunct search marketing firm WebVisible's Geneva platform from a liquidator in the wake of that company's collapse. "This acquisition will dramatically enhance our presence and capabilities in the…
As you probably heard, Apple today announced first-quarter earnings (its first fiscal quarter is Sept.-Dec.). And you probably also heard that it was a blowout quarter -- beating even the most aggressive analyst estimates. Here are the main bullets. More…
I just heard from our friends at WillowTree Apps about their most recent iPhone app, "Likes." Utilizing the growing number of Facebook Likes out there, it will look at your friends' and friends of friends' activity and make local recommendations…
Following Peter's post about the developing lineup for our upcoming ILM East conference, we recently shot some video to give a little more color on what we're in the process of building. Below are the first two. We'll shoot more…
Foursquare announced today that it has partnered with SinglePlatform to add Menus to its Explore tab. The Explore tab, as many of you know, allows users to discover places around them -- as governed by check-in history, social behavior and…
AT&T Interactive is launching a contest today to encourage online and mobile application developers to use its APIs to build new uses for local business data. ATTi is trying to tap into the collective creativity and brainpower of the developer…
Millennial Media has become the latest to join the recent resurgence of tech IPOs. Or at least it has taken its first big step in that direction by filing its S-1 with the SEC, according to an email I just…
The Sweden-based local search company Eniro has acquired some of the assets of De Gule Sider in Denmark, the Yellow Pages operation closed down recently by European Directories. EDSA has made the decision to discontinue print directories in Denmark, where…
The search marketing firm WebVisible was abruptly closed down by its creditors over the holidays, with CEO Ron Burr managing only to convince the company's lenders to wait until after Christmas to foreclose on the business. As of Dec. 27…
The European directory and local search operator Truvo has taken major steps toward consolidating around its flagship Belgian operation. On Dec. 22, Truvo "divested" its operation in Ireland, selling it to Contact Holdings, which operates Yellow Pages companies in the…
Heavily leveraged Yell Group has earned some breathing room from a deal with its lenders announced yesterday. Yell announced that it has reached terms with the "overwhelming majority of lenders" to increase the headroom on its debt. Without such concessions, Yell…
Moh Ok, Chief Scientist at PayPal, and Bo Fishback, CEO and Founder of Zaarly, talked about the integration of social, local and mobile to close the loop on driving consumer purchases during a morning dedicated to SoLoMo here at ILM…
Court Cunningham, CEO of Yodle, made news at ILM West this afternoon, announcing a three-year deal with Canada's Rogers Communicationsduring a 15-minute Q&A with BIA/Kelsey analyst Bobbi Loy Luster. Rogers is a leading communications company in Canada. Its deal…
Local Search Association President Neg Norton announced today at ILM West in San Francisco that the trade group would work with BIA/Kelsey to produce its annual conference, April 21-24 in Boca Raton, Florida. Norton said the LSA is committed to…
During a late morning panel on Day 2 of ILM West, local video providers batted around the opportunity in bringing video advertising to the "other 99 percent" of small merchants. "We know it's evolving," said moderator Steve Passwaiter of this…
In the midst of ILM West happenings, call measurement ad provider Telmetrics announced today that it's bringing its m.Call platform to iOS. M.Call gives local search publishers and app developers the ability to capture data around the phone calls they're…
Dex One Chief Strategy Officer David Sharman shared with us today some of the key challenges the longtime traditional directory publisher is facing as it evolves its business into the digital world. The primary challenge that he sees in the…