Yellow Pages Industry Files to Block SF Opt-In Ordinance
The Yellow Pages industry is taking an aggressive stance in its fight against the San Francisco opt-in ordinance. The industry, led by the Local Search Association, has filed a motion…
LivingSocial Buys South Korea’s Ticket Monster
Groupon got a flying jump investing in overseas properties that have basically cloned its daily deal concept and set up local operations. International now accounts for 54 percent of Groupon’s…
Deutsche Bank N.Z. Suffers Yellow Pages Hangover
2010 was a dismal year for the New Zealand branch of Deutsche Bank after exposure to the Yellow Pages Group restructuring. The KPMG Financial Institutions Performance Survey issued last week…
Management Shake-Up at Local Insight Media
Local Insight Media President and CEO Scott Pomeroy has resigned, effective Friday. Pomeroy was replaced as interim CEO by Scott Brubaker, a director at the turnaround firm Alvarez & Marsal,…
DMS ’10 Headliners Cotterill, Lerman Offer Contrasting Perspectives
The line up of speakers for Directional Media Strategies 2010 has been shaping up nicely. We have a full slate of "headliners" who will either give full presentations or sit…
Skype Continues Pay-Per-Call Initiative, Now With Marchex
Last year we broke a story about Skype's new initiative with local pay-per-call. Given its half a billion global users, the company began to monetize the calls made to businesses,…
European Directories Likely for Sale
European Directories, the private equity owned publisher of directories across Europe, is for sale, according to a report in the Financial Times (via Bloomberg). European Directories operates in Austria, the…
Is a Sale of YPG-NZ on the Horizon?
Regional press reports suggest that Yellow Pages Group New Zealand may be up for sale. The company was scooped up by private equity buyers (CCMP Capital Asia and Ontario Teachers’…
Local Matters Unveils Search and Social Platform for IYPs
Here’s a question: How long would directory publishers sit back and let new companies such as RedBeacon, AlikeList and others disrupt the leads economy for SMBs with search and socially…
YPG-NZ Grows Revenue, but Posts Loss Due to One Offs
New Zealand's Yellow Pages Group posted a net loss after tax of NZ$338 million for the financial year ended June 30, but much of the loss resulted from one-time items.…