Facebook Head of Groups Justin Shaffer told attendees at Where 2.0 that one of Facebook’s goals is to develop the largest database of “interesting” places. The collection of places has “really been the focus" of his division for the past…
Facebook sees strong potential in local advertising and will develop an aggressive local strategy, according to Facebook Local Leader Emily White, a Day 3 keynoter at ILM:10. White, who left Google four months ago, said businesses are always being told…
American Express has recently been leveraging its powerful relationship with SMBs on the Web, including a tie to search engine marketing and lead generation via a deal between American Express Open and Clickable. Now Amex is going deep with social…
After a packed day of participating in webinars and victory parades, it's time to catch up on a full slate of news items. Chief among them is Facebook's "mobile" press event during which it announced updated apps, a single sign-on…
Small businesses seeking to pick, choose and install Web applications for their Facebook Pages and Places can now easily do so with Appbistro, a new site that provides app makers an iTunes Store-like model (right down to the 70/30 revenue…
Clickable has announced that it will add support for Facebook advertising that allows its Pro users to directly compare social and search results. The effort follows initiatives by rival “search resellers” like ReachLocal, Yodle and Orange Soda to broaden their…
Following the previous post about Facebook's potential to be a category killer in the quickly budding mobile LBS market, could Google do the same? Like Facebook, the question comes down to Google's sheer scale and installed base. It hasn't done…
Following the previous post about Facebook's potential to be a category killer in the quickly budding mobile LBS market, could Google do the same? Like Facebook, the question comes down to Google's sheer scale and installed base. It hasn't done…
Location-based services continue to roll out left and right. TechCrunch won't stop saying this year's South By Southwest conference will be all about location (except for this contrarian piece by Paul Carr). We mostly agree. But with all the start-ups…
AT&T Interactive has put up a beta version of its new Buzz.com site dedicated to eliciting positive social recommendations and answers to questions from friends, friends of friends and throughout the Buzz site (which, unfortunately, may get confused with Google…
AT&T Interactive has put up a beta version of its new Buzz.com site dedicated to eliciting positive social recommendations and answers to questions from friends, friends of friends and throughout the Buzz site (which, unfortunately, may get confused with Google…
Local/social leaders from Facebook, Yelp and Twitter took the stage at IAB’s Annual Leadership Meeting in Carlsbad, California, this week to discuss what IAB President Randall Rothenberg called “the mobile/social local real-time medium that does not have a name.” Facebook’s…
By Steve Passwaiter, VP, Business Development We head into the New Year severely chastened by the historic revenue declines of the past year. For traditional media companies -- not so much the new media companies that BIA/Kelsey also covers --…