Yext CEO Howard Lerman, in the first of several keynotes at BIA/Kelsey's DMS 2010 in Dallas, says that “dozens of winners” will emerge in the local marketplace. Noting how fast technology has swarmed around local marketing, “it is basically the Jetsons…
Zillow, after five years and $87 million raised, says it is now in the black for the first time, after focusing more on revenues. It also announced that Spencer Rascoff has been appointed CEO, replacing Expedia Founder Rich Barton, who…
The entire BIA/Kelsey team is in Dallas this week running the Directional Media Strategies conference. I'll be running a few sessions dedicated to mobile and will post (or cross post) here. And I'll do my best to keep up with…
We had the opportunity to spend a few minutes this morning with Alfred Mockett, the new CEO of Dex One, on his first day on the job, and it's clear that he plans to follow an aggressive change management agenda.…
Last week Apple threw a long overdue bone to the mobile app developer community. It released a series of informative (if snarky) guidelines on the factors for approval in the App Store. For anyone in the local media space (many of you,…
Yesterday Apple updated various pieces of its developer rules/requirements. The change that got the most press was that Apple was "opening up its popular App Store to products made using Adobe Systems Inc.'s (ADBE) Flash program," according to The Wall…
The reputation management space will be yet another hot topic at DMS ’10 next week. It's garnered a lot of press and new competitors in the past year, and as BIA/Kelsey anticipates this area to grow to roughly $3.1B in…
With just a few days remaining before the start of our DMS ’10 conference in Dallas, we wanted to preview a couple of hot topics that will likely receive a lot of buzz at the show. I will be co-moderating…
Fresh off the launch of Facebook Places, I had the chance last week to talk to Gowalla Director of Business Development Andy Ellwood. We both spoke at July's Geo-Loco conference and have since been reeling from the activity and excitement…
Groups have been using the Web since the mid-1980s for a wide range of activities, such as scheduling, discussions, photo sharing, referrals etc. Groups have been a special strength for Yahoo. BigTent, a group software company based in San Francisco,…
Pretty big news from Dex One today. The company announced this morning that it has a deal with rival SuperMedia that allows advertisers from each site to have their business profiles appear on the other publisher's online directory. The obvious…
SuperMedia has joined the list of directory publishers rolling out complete overhauls of their online Yellow Pages directories. Today, the publisher unveiled a new version of SuperPages.com, which featured more local content, more robust merchant info on search results page,…
A few weeks ago, we covered the launch of DudaMobile and its low maintenance mobile Web site building tool. Yesterday Duda made more news by partnering with transactional tool provider Agendize. The partnership brings Agendize's signature appointment scheduling to Duda's mobile Web…
The deal-a-day model thrives on the power of its e-mail list, sales channels, promotion, clever copywriting and vendor selection. Newspapers and TV stations should be especially well positioned to leverage these strengths, right? Many, in fact, are diving in to…
In case you didn’t see these, here are links to some of the more important posts from the past week on our Global Yellow Pages blog. Be sure to submit your e-mail address to “Subscribe to Our Blog.” You will…
In addition to announcing 1 billion users per week, You may have heard about Google's new "Instant" search feature launched today at its Search event in San Francisco. The new search paradigm will serve results in real time as users…
Following up on our coverage and initial reactions to Facebook's Places launch, my monthly column on Search Engine Watch digs a bit deeper. Below is the teaser and link. As non-cave dwellers have likely heard, Facebook has launched its own location…
Dex One has gone leaderless since May when longtime CEO Dave Swanson announced his retirement, which took place immediately. Rather than appoint an interim CEO, the company was run by a temporary leadership team comprising senior members of the board.…
Eniro has replaced Jesper Karrbrink as CEO of the Swedish directory company with Johan Lindgren, former CEO of Telenor Sweden. Eniro's board is apparently frustrated at the pace of improvement resulting from the new strategy put in place by Karrbrink.…
The U.K. directory publisher Yell's stock had its best day of trading in months, leading to speculation that the company might be a takeover target. Another report suggests the increase may not be the result of a takeover bid, but…
