Archive for March, 2010

The Vienna-based “people” search engine 123people now belongs to Pages Jaunes. The French apparently popped out 10 to 15 million Euros to buy out the previous stockholders. Read the rest of this entry »

What is going on here? The concept of FourWhere is there to answer this question. You pick a city, click on the map – already you’ll see locations in the area and what sorts of comments they’ve received from Foursquare-users. Read the rest of this entry »

Though quite overdue, experts speculate that Facebook will be announcing their headquarters in San Francisco F8 at the end of April on the next F8. The New York Times, the original reporters for the claim, says their information is from anonymous sources. Read the rest of this entry »

Yahoo! is taking Local Search literally to finger practice. With „Sketch-a-Search“, you have the ability to draw a point on a map using an iPhone and all the restaurants in the area are then displayed. Read the rest of this entry »

The evaluation forum Center’d in the USA has introduced a new ad site in the worldwide web. It’s called „The Dealmap “ and is meant to help users look for the best deals in their city in a certain category. “Coming soon”… Read the rest of this entry »

When Americans search for local services, they trust their Yellow Pages more than online search engines, at least according to the first “Local Media Tracking” study conducted by the market-research from Burke in contract with Yellow Pages Association.. Read the rest of this entry »

These Canadians have quite a sense of humor. In order to make their jazzed up Logo more famous, the Yellow Pages Group (YPG) has introduced a truly bizarre video of a pumped up, half-naked muscle man strolling down the street, for whom nothing is more important than “being oily”. Read the rest of this entry »

The American newbie Placecast can start loading up its cash-boxes. Multiple investors are so impressed with the fairly new service ShopAlert that they’ve increased their initial investment from 3 to 8 million dollars. Read the rest of this entry »

When the AGOF [Working Group for Online Media Research] releases the AGOF newest internet rankings at the end of each quarter, online Germany seems to quiver. This time around, the makers of Das Örtliche can be excited: they’ve gone from 26th to 18th place. Read the rest of this entry »

Das Örtliche iPhone App: Urkunde für die Nominierten

Die iPhone-App von Das Örtliche gehört zu den drei innovativsten mobilen Anwendungen in Deutschland. So entschied die Jury des Innovationspreises IT auf der diesjährigen Cebit in Hannover. Angetreten zu dem Wettbewerb waren 2000 Anbieter in 35 Kategorien. Der Innovationspreis wird jedes Jahr auf der Cebit von der Initiative Mittelstand verliehen. Sieger in der Kategorie ist der Hotel Reservation Service mit seiner Mobil-Lösung.