The Yellow Pages industry has failed to win a preliminary injunction or restraining order from a U.S. District Court in Seattle. This mean the Seattle opt-out ordinance can move forward as…
First-quarter 2011 earnings reports are trickling in across the global Yellow Pages industry, and while the results are still largely negative, there are some signs that the rate of revenue…
Last week, I had the chance to catch up with the team at Poynt about new acquisitions, usage milestones, intellectual property and general directions. The short version: There's a lot…
The City of Seattle has modified its tough Yellow Pages opt-out ordinance, but apparently not sufficiently to make a federal lawsuit challenging the ordinance go away. The city has eliminated…
In case you missed them, here are a few headlines and links to posts over the past week from our Global Yellow Pages blog. You can also subscribe to the…
We've long had an ax to grind about mobile products that simply port over online experiences to a smaller screen. This can be said for apps, as well as advertising. The latter…
ZipLocal, the U.S. independent directory publisher, has launched a new "hyper local" leads-based advertising model called Local Leads that taps into a distribution network featuring 18 properties and 80 billion monthly…
Two sometimes rival U.S. directory industry associations have joined forces to build a more robust one-stop opt-out Web site (due out early next year) that they hope will mitigate the…
Microsoft will work more closely with small businesses and interactive agencies, offering itself up as “the local operating system,” according to Randy Wootton, Microsoft Advertising VP of global search and…
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…