LivingSocial has benefited greatly from its deal with Amazon, as it has both raised its profile and increased its sales. The company now hopes to replicate that success by striking another similar "national" deal with Fandango by offering a 70% discount on two movie tickets. In...
Hot on the heels of the release of the overhauled version of its iPhone app, AT&T Interactive's online yellow pages website YP.com has now just finished doing the same for the version of the app meant for mobile devices running the Android OS. The app...
AT&T Interactive's YP.com has become just the second website after Bing to integrate the interior imagery system from EveryScape. This feature allows users to enjoy a virtual tour of the interior of a shop or store or restaurant of their choice. Jim Schoonmaker, CEO of EveryScape,...
AT&T and Placecast recently announced a joint effort to offer geo-fencing based ShopAlerts in major cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Placecast first launched this service one year ago, and is currently behind a similar partnership in the UK with...
The Wall Street Journal recently got their hands on a Groupon company memo that's filled with all sorts of interesting data. No word yet on whether or not the memo was leaked intentionally, but here are the highlights: The company's 2010 revenue is listed at $760...
Bing's own Amar Patel stated some time ago at GetListed's Local University that approximately half of the user-generated searches for restaurants are done from mobile devices. Given how astonishing this data was, we followed up and discovered exactly where this interesting little tidbit came...
Google has recently introduced a new feature for their Places mobile app on the iPhone and Android-powered phones, allowing users to see if a particular business in their search results listings is open for business. This feature has been on Yelp's mobile apps for some...
It's been a year since Yelp launched their Yelp check-ins service on the iPhone, and a little less since launching it on Android-powered phones as well. Since then, Yelp has also added check-in offers, which gives all of the businesses on Yelp the power to...
Yelp has a great track record of listening to comments and suggestions from their users in order to help improve their apps and services. One of the newest innovations to come out of this willingness to listen and learn from their users is the creation...
When you're looking for a particular service or business in your area, where do you turn to? Well those old yellow pages are way out of date, as people today turn to Yelp to help them find what they're looking for. In fact, in just...