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Just about three weeks ago, the geo-location service Foursquare launched its “Explore” feature for the online version, offering users personalized, location-based recommendations for various businesses all over the world. Now the service has updated its mobile application, bringing many of these “Explore” features to the iPhone and Android smartphones. Read the rest of this entry »

The free mobile local search application from Das Telefonbuch for Android smartphones has been updated with a full navigation system. Users can immediately begin to search for business and private contacts throughout Germany, as well as use the full navigation for any place within Germany, Austria, and Switzerland with the updated 2.0 version of the app. iPhone users have had this possibility for about half a year now. Read the rest of this entry »

With the desktop application click.to, users can conduct a local search with suchen.de directly from documents, short messages from Twitter, Facebook & Co., emails, and other desktop applications. This is made possible through a cooperation between Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH, click.to’s developers, and Searchteq GmbH, suchen.de’s developer. Read the rest of this entry »

The Telegate AG has given its online directory 11880.com a facelift: the portal will open with a location-based local search for the correlating city. The new feature is described as being more local, personal, and structured by Kirstin Bergmann in the company’s official blog. Read the rest of this entry »

The eleventh representation Ipsos-study about the use of directories has released some amazing results: not only do 96.3 percent of all Germans use various directories in their search for private and business contacts in addition to shopping possibilities, but also that the printed version remains the most popular. This makes 2011 the busiest year for directories, despite competition from search engines and other locally and regionally oriented media forms, according to the VDAV (Verband Deutscher Auskunfts- und Verzeichnismedien), who directed the study. Read the rest of this entry »

Despite numerous speculations regarding the end of the never-ending row of online coupons, but investors continue to pump large sums into companies like LivingSocial and Plum District. The deal portals, which have specialized themselves in location-based group deals, especially wish to expand their unique selling points with the extended financial support in order to improve their position against competition. But the competition is still strong: the leader of the pack Groupon has introduced a new online-booking possibility with an appointment planner with its new Groupon Scheduler. Read the rest of this entry »

The free local search application “Places” from TomTom is now available for Android smartphone users, just three months after the launch of the iPhone app. Users can find stores, restaurants, and sights in their vicinity within eight countries. The app combines data from ten million POIs (Points of Interest) from local directories in the corresponding country, according to TomTom. In Germany, the company is working together with Gelbe Seiten. Read the rest of this entry »

About half of all Germans search and purchase Christmas presents online. Nevertheless, about forty percent buy their presents in stores on-the-go – but many users wouldn’t mind having some assistance using location-based services while trying to find the perfect Christmas gift, according to a study from Gelbe Seiten with the market research institution Innofact AG. Just in time for the Advent season, several location-based services have release new services to help users find the perfect gift in local stores. We would like to present two of them: Read the rest of this entry »

The tantalizing scent of roasted almonds, waffles, and mulled wine is in the air and invites guests to visit the popular Christmas markets. Now a special local search app shows us where the nearest market is: the free Christmas market search application for Apple and Android smartphones from Das Örtliche. Read the rest of this entry »

Since the beginning of the month, meinestadt.de offers local deal coupons in addition to regional deal guides. Users can find new deals from national coupon platforms like Groupon or DailyDeal, in addition to regional deal offerings in the new “Deals” menu.
After choosing the preferred city, users are directly directed to the latest local deals. For now, there will be about 2,000 deals from the approximately 70 largest cities in Germany, according to a press release. Those who come from smaller cities can see deals within 80 kilometers. In addition, everyone can access the national “online-deals”. These appear automatically under the offering for local deals.

Those who prefer to receive the latest deals in their email can also subscriber to the deal-newsletter.