Chris Jennewein The layoffs at Patch have been met around the industry as the latest sign that hyperlocal can't work because of the difficulties in scaling content and ad sales locally while attracting a reasonable quorum of local readers. Hale…
Chris Jennewein The layoffs at Patch have been met around the industry as the latest sign that hyperlocal can't work because of the difficulties in scaling content and ad sales locally while attracting a reasonable quorum of local readers. Hale…
AOL's Patch.com, which is now in 813 markets, is meeting internal goals and poised for success, according to President Warren Webster, who addressed San Diego Interactive Day yesterday. Webster said Patch is now reaching 6.9 million unique visitors and has…
AOL will buy The Huffington Post for $300 million in cash and $15 million in stock, and put Arianna Huffington in charge of the AOL Local sites (MapQuest, Patch, MovieFone) as well as its growing collection of opinionated tech and…
Main Street Connect, a new hyperlocal network founded by former community newspaper executive Carll Tucker, former SmartReply exec John Falcone and others in the New York suburbs, notified the SEC on May 26 that it has raised $3.97 million for…
Jon Brod, EVP, AOL Ventures Patch.com, AOL's hyperlocal network, will grow from its tally of 30 sites today to "hundreds" by the end of 2010, per an internal memo read by Business Insider (and that we saw on www.netnewscheck.com). The…
