Articles tagged “local”

As Google adds one Frommer's review after another to its database it's realizing that it got a great deal for $23 million and totally screwed by it's Zagat acquisition.

Remains to be seen if they take off against denizens' own phones/portable devices, or if they end up being used as tourist information kiosks.

The need for conscious tourism is no more evident than in Bali where the tourism industry's excess has contributed to one million locals being without clean water.

The next $4 million funding is large for a local recommendation app, especially with lots of competition, but strange are the ways of VCs who play favorites with certain buzzy founders and startups. What'll ultimately matter would be if it can scale.

Yelp's biggest challenges are ahead. with a mobile audience that makes up almost half of it usage and no plan to monetize those users, Yelp may even start losing money faster.

Indiewalls’ greatest feature for hotels is the ability to constantly offer guests something new and distinctive with minimal outlay and very little work.

It's difficult to say where the frustration of a struggling business ends and the unscrupulous practices of a shady salesperson begin. If any of the suits against Yelp are to gain ground they're going to need to capture the bad pitch in action.

When the opportunity to divest appeared, Yelp's biggest investors instead decided to hold on to their stock and signaled a a very confident endorsement of its battle with Google over the future of local information.

Great take on the local economic and tourism development efforts, and how to move away from gimmicky, big-money projects and focus on what works on smaller scale. Europe and particularly Spain might agree.

With early investors backing out of Groupon and other sites re-evaluating their rapid expansions over the past two years, it's certainly not a good week to be in the local online coupon business.