Foursquare raised another $20 million in a Series B round led by Andreessen Horowitz. Funds will be used for recruiting and product design.
Foursquare Closes $20 Million Series B From Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square, And O’Reilly.
Mapquest, once the leading online map service, has relaunched with more features, less ads and a focus on local search. Google Maps passed up Mapquest in terms of features and usage back in early 2009.
Mapquest Introduces New Look, New Capabilities.
ReachLocal, a local ad network, has launched Bizzy, a site that gives local business a tool for communicating with their customers. This is the first attempt made by ReachLocal to create online presence for their customers.
ReachLocal Starts Expansion With Launch Of Local Business Site Bizzy | paidContent.
Thumbtack.com has raised another $1.2 million from angel investors including WebBlogs and Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis. Thumbtack provides listings of local service providers, but differentiates itself by only including listings for companies that compete profiles.
Well-known angels back local services startup Thumbtack.com | VentureBeat.
Online social deal-finding and shopping site, Groupon, raised $135 million over the weekend from Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian Internet holding company that has investments in other notable startups including Facebook and Zynga. Groupon had previously raised $30 million in December, lead by Accel Partners.
Groupon’s visitor traffic has skyrocketed over the past 9 months, much [...]
Local websites, such as Yelp, are red hot and so are the data providers that help power their content. Today Localeze announced that they have partnered with Microsoft’s search engine Bing to use their premium business content.
In related news, AT&T launched their own local site, Buzz. Here is more coverage from Forbes. It will be [...]
Panoramio co-founder, Eduardo Manchón, announced his departure from Google today and simultaneously announced that he is joining hyperlocal Q&A startup Askaro.com.
Askaro’s hyperlocal spin on Q&A is an interesting strategy to compete in a big market where sites like Answers.com and Yahoo Answers pull in huge visitor traffic. But in a category this big, there is [...]
In its short life (less than a year), Foursquare has attracted a lot of attention as one of a few new location-based social networks that allows you to share your whereabouts via a “check-in” system.
Apparently it is now starting to attract a lot of traffic. Foursquare recently tweeted that they averaged a check-in per second [...]
Local business directory / social network MerchantCircle has signed up their one-millionth local business merchant. This is a pretty amazing accomplishment for a few reasons:
This number represents 5% of all merchants in the US
They have reached this milestone in just over three years
The competition in this space is high (Yelp, Citysearch)
The service offers both free [...]
Google has added reporting to their Local Business Center (LBC) service.
The service is free to use for local businesses and allows them to update their business information that is displayed in Google’s search results. This combined with the reporting service, which allows them to see what keywords their customers searched to find them and where [...]