Google and Twitter Dec. 7 created new Web services to help local businesses broaden their exposure. The Favorite Places on Google initiative lets business owners place a window sticker with a bar code on their storefronts. Users walking by on the street can stop and scan the bar code, or QR code, from their Apple iPhone, Android-powered phones such as the Motorola Droid, or BlackBerry devices. Twitter, meanwhile, teamed with Citysearch and Urbanspoon, which are serving up Twitter’s new Sign-Up API to let local businesses integrate their Twitter account or create a new account directly from the business profiles.
– Google and Twitter Dec. 7 created new Web services to help local businesses
broaden their exposure.
Google has selected more than 100,000 businesses that have joined its Local Business Center for its quot;Favorite Places on Google quot; initiative, which
lets business owners place a window stick…