Archive for the ‘Local Search on the go’ Category
Edo: Personalized Local Deals Through Bank Card Data
23 May. 2012 | Author: 
Edo has developed the first mobile advertising platform allowing purchases and location-data to be combined, according to the company. Much most interesting is what the American company makes of this possibility: it offers a service that businesses can use to offer customers highly personalized real-time coupons on their mobiles while shopping by considering current buying behavior and location – “Geocommerce Offers” is what Edo calls the service. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Bankkarten-Daten, Edo, Location Based Service, mobile lokale Rabattangebote, mobile personalisierte lokale Angebote | 
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Gelbe Seiten: App Now For Windows Phone
The mobile application from the Gelbe Seiten is now available for free on smartphones equipped with the Microsoft operating system Windows Phone. Users with the new Nokia Lumia line of phones as well as a number of devices from Samsung and HTC can quickly find service providers on the go with the app. Read the rest of this entry »
Telegate: iPad App With Further Local Content
About a month after the free mobile iPad applications for the two local search engines 11880.com and klickTel were released, their operator Telegate AG, has already updated them. The latest release has made the iPad apps into mobile city-guides, promises Kristin Bergmann in the Telegate blog. Read the rest of this entry »
meinestadt.de: WP7 App Update with Additional Local Content
The latest version of the free mobile application for the city portal meinestadt.de for the Windows Phone 7 (WP7) now offers additional local information and functions in addition to contact data from restaurants, hotels, shops and other service providers as well as event information and movie times: the update now provides the new categories “Transit Stops” and “Local News”, as well as a telephone book search, as with the apps for the iPhone and Android smartphones. Read the rest of this entry »
Study: More and More Concerned with Online Ratings While Conducting a Local Search
Already 85 percent of consumers use the internet to search for local businesses, 16 percent of all users every week. This is one of the results of the current “Local Consumer Review Survey 2012″. Additional findings of the survey: consumer trust in online customer ratings has raised by ten percent in the past two years. About 72 percent of the surveyed found online as well as personal recommendations to be important, according to Myles Anderson, founder and chief of BrightLocal.com, a company specializing in local marketing, which conducted the survey on Searchengineland. Read the rest of this entry »
Google: Previous Local Searches Now Accessible
Those who conduct a search by google.com can now pull up their most recent searches including results on the go with a single click. After say, conducting a search on a PC for information about a certain location, users can pull up this data on their Android or iPhone in their next search on Google.com, including directions or relevant information about the location, all by clicking on the “Recent” icon, according to Junichi Uekawa in the company’s mobile blog.
Compare local daily specials on the way
The coupon-comparison platform tagesangebote.de tagesangebote.de has launched a new mobile Android application android-tagesangebote.de as well as an iPhone-App update iphone-tagesangebote.de. This allows the user to clearly see and compare local coupon deals at a glance, such as Groupon Groupon, Daily Deal DailyDeal, and Qypedeals Qypedeals.
KaufDA Now With Location-Based Brand Advertising
The local online prospect service KaufDA has apparently discovered a new means of making profit: the “Consumer Information Portal”, as the company calls its platform, will immediately begin offering the “kaufDA Brand Booster”, which specializes in advertising location-based brands. Read the rest of this entry »
Telegate Launches Local Search Apps for iPad
“The next generation of mobile local search” is how Telegate describes its new apps specially developed for the iPad for its two local-search services klickTel and 11880.com. The new mobile applications completely use the capabilities of the Apple tablets: users not only have access to 28 million private and business addresses in from the Telegate directory, but can also find various multimedia content such as photos and videos for service providers. In addition, the menus for the klickTel and the 11880.com apps can be individually customized on the iPad. Read the rest of this entry »
Das Telefonbuch: Android App with Full-Navigation
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 »
