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Yellow Pages Group Canada Adds Microsoft Virtual Earth Maps

Microsoft Canada Co. and Yellow Pages Group Canada announced that Microsoft Virtual Earth mapping software is now available on YellowPages.ca. The software licensing deal allows YPG to provide a more robust map experience for users. It will also enable the…

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Nielsen: EBay’s Kijiji has 1.7 Million U.S. Users

 EBay hasn’t really scored with any of its local initiatives during CEO Meg Whitman’s 10-year tenure (she is retiring). The local version of eBay Motors, for instance, never seems to get out of the gate. But the stars seem better aligned…

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Spot Runner Gets Up Close and Personal

Local and national video ad producer Spot Runner announced today that it will acquire video production network GlobeShooter. This will bring the company better scalability and capability to deploy up to 1,200 professional videographers to far-flung locales, and shoot video…

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More Web 2.0 Ideas for Local Search Sites

OK, so I’m on a Web 2.0 kick. I guess I’ve made it my New Year’s resolution to get more publishers and local search companies thinking about the broader meaning and business opportunities Web 2.0 presents beyond consumer reviews and…

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Larry and Sergey Go to Washington

The New Yorker this week has an interesting piece by the prolific Ken Auletta about Google's growing efforts to fend off attacks from anti-corporate lobbyist groups and legislators (some of whom see the Internet as a "series of tubes"). This…

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Out of Home Ramping Up

American Public Media's Marketplace ran an interesting piece yesterday about the launch of NBC Everywhere, NBC's foray into the expansive and growing out-of-home media market. According to the piece, there are some 500,000 out-of-home display monitors delivering content and advertising into…

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Gannett Names PointRoll’s Head as Chief Digital Officer

Gannett has named PointRoll chief Chris Saridakis as its new senior vice president-chief digital officer, reporting to longtime vet Jack Williams, who has been named president of the division. PointRoll is a rich media ad agency that Gannett purchased in…

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Linkedin as New Age Yellow Pages

Linkedin has become a valuable resource for connecting business professionals. Recently Linkedin has added a professional services feature that allows members to share their business contacts in specific service categories. The new “Services” tab allows users to find people via…

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MacBook ‘Air’ Unveiled

All right, this isn't directly tied to local search, but it's really cool. This morning, at the Macworld expo, Steve Jobs introduced the newest addition to the Apple family, the MacBook Air. It's small enough to fit into an interoffice…

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Rural Verticals: The Shift of Small-Town Auction Advertising

Small-town newspapers and radio stations sometimes get into businesses that media companies in larger markets rarely do. They publish directories, develop Web sites, provide Internet access -- you name it. Thousands of newspapers are still family-owned. Increasingly, though, more are controlled…

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PagesJaunes Takes Huge Online Risk

Pagesjaunes France has announced it will take a dramatic pricing approach in its largest urban markets where it will cut print costs by 20 percent while raising online costs on average by 50 percent. The goal of the pricing program…

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What’s in a Number?

The Kelsey Group has generated considerable attention (and some confusion) in the media and on the blogosphere from a statement that appeared in an Advisory issued by our Marketplaces program on Jan. 4 offering picks and predictions for 2008 (each…

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