Google Jan. 20 confirmed Google Offers is a product it is planning to offer consumers local daily deals from businesses. Yes, like Groupon. – Google confirmed it is preparing a prepaid deals program
that would compete with local deals giant Groupon, which the search engine
failed to acquire late last year.
Mashable broke the news Jan. 20, citing confidential sources. Normally spoken word sourcing beckons Google to respond
with its qu…
Google claimed it’s Google Places, Place Search and Place Pages are designed to deliver the best information to users, but TripAdvisor, Yelp, Citysearch and WebMd feel slighted. – Google Dec. 13 defended itself from suggestions that it
gives its own Place Pages local search service preferential treatment on Google.com,
arguing that anything it does is to help users find the best information
possible.
The issue arose after the Wall Street
Journal published this story (p…
The ruling Democrats (DS) in the northern town of Subotica have a new local branch leader, and he is Modest Dulić.
Modest is the brother of DS official and cabinet minister Oliver Dulić.
Yahoo is adding Local Offers to its Local deals Web service, which is available in beta for computers, iPhones and Android handsets. Local is the answer to Facebook Deals and Groupon. –
Yahoo contributed to the latest crush of local-related
news Dec. 8 by making its refreshed Yahoo Local service available in limited
beta for computers and Apple’s iPhone and Google Android smartphones.
Compare the current and new Yahoo Local services.
The top menu has changed from vertically…
The municipal government in the southern town of PreÅ¡evo, made up of three ethnic Albanian parties, has collapsed. Democratic Union of the Valley leader Skender Destani said his party had decided to leave the coalition with Ragmi Mustafa’s Democratic Party of Albanians and Orhan Redzepi’s the National Movement of Albanians.
Yahoo Nov. 16 introduced Local Offers, a bid to rival Facebook Deals, Foursquare deals and Google Places. Also on tap: integrations with Twitter and Zynga, as well as new search tools. – SAN FRANCISCO Yahoo
Nov. 16 rolled out a number of new features for applications spanning search,
instant messaging and mobile applications as it seeks to lure more users from
Google, Facebook and other Internet rivals.
But the most interesting piece of news was the vague introduction of Yahoo
…
Google Nov. 15 launched its Hotpot local recommendation engine in Google Maps for Android 4.7, helping users get input on places from friends. – Google Nov. 15 moved to socialize its Google Maps for Android application by
adding local recommendations about locations from friends.
Google Maps 4.7 for Android leverages
Hotpot, the company’s new local recommendation, to let users rate, write and
publish reviews about restaurants, coffee sho…
Google Nov. 15 refreshed its Google Product Search service, Google Shopper App, and added popular products and aisle tabs in time for Black Friday. – Google Nov. 15 unveiled an improved Google Product Search service,
partnering with retail giants such as Best Buy and Williams-Sonoma to surface
goods for online shoppers who are nearby.
The search engine partnered with more than 70 retailers and software makers
such as Oracle, JDA and Epicor to…
Greeks are voting in the second round of local elections that are widely seen as a referendum on the government’s tough austerity program.
The ruling socialists emerged ahead in a majority of regions after last Sunday’s ballot but only with a wafer-thin lead, in a poll marred by abstentions.
The VMware View 4.5 virtual desktop platform gained enterprise features including role-based administration, Local Mode (formerly known as Offline Desktop), full support for Windows 7 and a View client for Mac OS X, making this version the pace setter for virtual desktop infrastructure. View 4.5 started shipping Sept. 13. View Premier, the version that enables Local Mode and most other storage and customization features, costs $250 per concurrent user. View Enterprise costs $150 per concurrent user. VMware View 4.5 depends on the latest version of vSphere 4.1 to get all the storage and virtualization goodness. A workable test environment needs a View Connection Server, a View Transfer Server and several virtual machine templates. The View server components are integrated with a vCenter 4.1 server along with Microsoft Windows Active Directory infrastructure to handle user rights and the new role-based administration. To read the full review, check out "VMware View 4.5 VDI Goes Local". Â Or if you have experience with VMware View 4.5, share your thoughts at http://labs.eweek.com. – …
VMware View 4.5 VDI gains Windows 7, Mac OS X and Local Mode. – VMware View 4.5 gained enterprise features including role-based administration, Local Mode (formerly
known as Offline Desktop), full support for Windows 7 and a View client
for Mac OS X devices, making this version the pace setter for
virtual desktop infrastructure.
View 4.5 started shipping…
Fighting terrorism in Yemen requires patience and partners
JUST as mist often cloaks its spiky mountain peaks, Yemen tends to fade from outsiders’ view until an alarming event there commands sudden interest. The foiling of al-Qaeda’s Halloween plot to sneak two parcel bombs onto aircraft bound for America is just such an attention-grabber.
The attackers hid the devices in ink cartridges inside computer printers and sent them by scheduled courier services from the Yemeni capital, Sana’a, addressed to synagogues in Chicago. The plan may have been to explode them en route, perhaps as the plane was landing. That highlights a security hole in global transport (see article) as did a separate series of primitive bombs sent, apparently by Greek leftists, to the German chancellor Angela Merkel and other European targets. …
Google has significantly accelerated its local search and advertising plans as it battles location-based services from rivals Foursquare, Facebook, Twitter and Yelp. – Google in October has significantly accelerated its local
search and advertising plans as it seeks to rival location-based service
efforts of Foursquare, Facebook, Twitter and Yelp.
In analyzing its search engine traffic, Google has found
40 percent of its U.S. traffic is local in nature. To ad…
If you remember, a few days ago we talked about redesign of location reviews on Place pages. Turns out that Google wanted to introduce a new search service and that’s exactly what it did. It has introduced what it calls as Place Search. To begin with, here’s an excerpt from the official blog post: “Today [...]
Google Place Search lumps together information around places when users do a search for a local restaurant, landmark or business. The service is part of Google’s local search push. – Google Oct. 27 moved to boost its local search services
by launching Google Place Search, which groups information around places when
users do a search for a local restaurant, landmark or business.
The move comes as Google is
ramping up
its geolocation and local search efforts under Marissa May…
Google Boost is a new online ad program that lets business owners build search ads from their Google Places account. The goal is to make the ads contextually relevant. – Google Oct. 25 extended another olive branch to local
business owners with Google Boost, a new online ad program that lets business
owners build online search ads from their Google Places account.
Google in April
revitalized
its Google Local Business Center as Google Places to help local
busin…
Egnyte’s hybrid cloud/local storage service is worth evaluating for organizations looking to cash in on the benefits of cloud-based storage without surrendering on-premises support. – Cloud-based applications and
services promise to change, for the better, the way we manage our workloads and
get things done. Of course, change can bring as many liabilities as
benefits take cloud-based storage, which can cut maintenance requirements,
albeit at the cost of increased network late…
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DEBUT ALBUM GORILLA MANOR OUT NOW
LA’s own Local Natives
will be
hitting the road starting September 17 at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles. Along the way, the band will also
hit San Francisco on September 22 for a performance at the Fillmore before heading over to Seattle, Portland,
Boulder, Minneapolis, Chicago, Boston, Montreal, and other cities.
The band released their debut album, Gorilla Manor earlier this year. Check out the video for
“World News” below.
TOUR DATES:
9/17 – Henry Fonda Theatre – Los Angeles, CA
9/19 – Belly Up Tavern – Solana Beach, CA
9/20 – SOHO Music Club – Santa Barbara, CA
9/22 – Fillmore – San Francisco, CA
9/24 – Showbox at the Market – Seattle, WA
9/25 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR
9/28 – Fox Theatre – Boulder, CO
9/30 – The Waiting Room – Omaha, NB
10/1 – First Avenue – Minneapolis, MN
10/2 – Metro – Chicago, IL
10/3 – The Blue Note – Columbia, MO
10/5 – Academy of Contemporary Music – Oklahoma City, OK
10/6 – House of Blues – Dallas, TX
10/7 – House of Blues – Houston, TX
10/9 – Austin City Limits – Austin, TX
10/11 – Tulane University LBC Quad – New Orleans, LA
10/13 – Work Play Soundstage – Birmingham, AL
10/14 – Cannery Ballroom – Nashville, TN
10/15 – The Masquerade-Heaven Stage – Atlanta, GA
10/16 – Grey Eagle Tavern & Music Hall – Asheville, NC
10/19 – Mod Club – Toronto, ON
10/20 – La Tulipe – Montreal, QB
10/23 – Paradise Rock Club – Boston, MA
10/27 – Trocadero – Philadelphia, PA
10/28 – Nightclub 9:30 – Washington, DC
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