Articles tagged “local”

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.

Microsoft/Bing's approach to content is indeed more open than Google's, and Bing has done a great job incorporating a lot of Yelp restaurant content on Bing.com without having to acquire the company.

Taking a port city’s big attractions from land to sea is easy in a city like Miami, and it's a strategy cruise lines can adopt in more ports to engage residents and get them on more ships.

C'mon Google: You shouldn't be using fuzzy math when boasting about your user-review numbers. You are better than that.

Cruise ships could provide a huge boost to the local economies they visit by buying fresh local produce and seafood -- a boost that many cruise stops from Maine to the Caribbean islands desperately need.

With both Frommer's and Zagat in the fold, Google may be able to solve the problem that's plagued travel companies for the last decade: How to effectively bridge travel and local.

GringoLocal aims to save travelers money on local experiences by selecting deals from destination-specific resources; however, the established team of founders are already thinking of possible pivots should the idea not take off.