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- YellowPages.com Sees $1.5 Billion Across 3 AT&T Screens by 2010
- While the other telcos have divested their Yellow Pages unit, AT&T still maintains that there is real synergy in pursuing a 3 screen strategy. Rather than selling the YP unit and using the proceeds to build out its network, as Verizon did, AT& — From The Local Onliner, Dec 13, 2007
- Merchant Circle Goes Positive in Telemarketing Effort
- Merchant Circle has apparently changed its tact for getting small businesses to sign up. In the past, there have been numerous reports that it autodialed SMBs and notified them they had to check out the company’s website to see their “bad — From The Local Onliner, Dec 11, 2007
- Google Local Symposium: Listen Carefully, It is Google
- Google is simultaneously the most open and most shut business I can think of. On one hand, it is amazingly transparent. You walk around the two campuses in Mountain View and you can walk right by Larry and Sergey’s offices. During my short tim — From The Local Onliner, Dec 8, 2007
- Google Local Symposium: Fresh Tidbits from Craigslist
- Google has been hosting a day- and- half local symposium here for local media and directory partners (and potential partners). Roughly 120 execs have come to the invite-only event – the glamour of the Google-plex campus, and excellent food and drink, — From The Local Onliner, Dec 6, 2007
- Yahoo! Re-orgs Local Markets and Commerce
- The way that Yahoo breaks up business segments is always instructive – something that we follow closely at The Kelsey Group as we do our best to sort out our Interactive Local Media, Marketplaces and Yellow Pages/Directional Advertising (“The Kelsey — From The Local Onliner, Dec 5, 2007
- Closing The Book on ILM:07
- (Pic by Simon Heseltine) It is hard for me to comprehend, but we are finally finished with ILM:07. We were grateful to have had 650 interesting and enthusiastic attendees from all over the world; 72 stimulating speakers; a full load of sponsors; and — From The Local Onliner, Dec 4, 2007
- ILM: 07 – RHDi’s Jake Winebaum Sees Verticalization, Simplified Sales
- A major benefit associated with RH Donnelley’s $345 million purchase of Business.com in July was getting Business.com founder Jake Winebaum. RHD needed an Internet change agent, and Winebaum clearly fit the bill after having played that role at Disn — From The Local Onliner, Dec 3, 2007
- ILM: 07 — Why the Mapping Deals are So Vital to Local
- At the ILM conference last week in LA, we saw lots of great mapping demos from Google, Mobile People et al. But it was hard to nail down how maps and their related services (zip codes, neighborhood mapping and other spatial endeavors) specifically im — From The Local Onliner, Dec 3, 2007
- Mel Taylor’s Great Pics of ILM:07
- Our friend Mel Taylor, who writes the engaging Local Media in a Web 2.0 world blog, took a full slate of PICTURES of the Interactive Local Media:07 Conference (and food and drinks). You-Were-There. Thanks Mel! (Pic: Mel Taylor) — From The Local Onliner, Dec 1, 2007
- ILM:07 –Chamath Palihapitiya on Facebook’s Local Opportunity
- Facebook VP of Product Development Chamath Palihapitiya, during a keynote at our ILM:07 conference in LA, says Facebook is keenly interested in driving local advertising via local media partners, its own outreach efforts and other means. Just six mo — From The Local Onliner, Nov 29, 2007
- Where Are The Web 2.0 IPOs?
- As the IPO market heats up, newly hatched companies are out in the cold. — From Forbes.com, Apr 11, 2007
- Tracking The Trackers
- ComScore wants to go public. Will privacy concerns be an issue? — From Forbes.com, Apr 11, 2007
- Treasure Island?
- If profitless Aruba Networks can cash in on the IPO market, there may be more riches ahead. — From Forbes.com, Apr 11, 2007
- Pop-Up Video
- The tech IPO may be making a comeback. Can BigBand Networks play along? — From Forbes.com, Apr 11, 2007