Local.com raises $13M

Local.com is in the news again with private stock issue worth $13M US today.  The company issued 2,356,900 shares at $5.50 per share.  The company will use the money to fund acquisitions, like the PremierGuide purchase last month, and expand its sales channel, defend its patent portfolio and for g

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Local.com purchases PremierGuide Directories

Local.com, one of the leading search engines in the US focused on the hyper local market purchased the PremierGuide business directory sites.  As more and more companies chase the hyper local market we expect to see more consolidation between Directories, Search and Classifieds.  These 3 services

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Yellowpages.ca gets Social

Yellowpages.ca gets Social

Darby Sieben recently wrote about , Canada's largest directory launching the ability to save directory listings to a variety of social bookmarking sites. The most interesting component is the ability to post the listing in Facebook. Facebook in Canada is extremely popular and until recently Toron

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YP Corp acquires Philippines Call Center

YP Corp announced that they have acquired OnCall Subscriber Management Inc based out Manila, Philippines. The deal gives YP Corp state of the art access to customer management and call center technology. Its an interest decision when most of the industry is moving towards outsourced call c

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AT&T 1-800-YellowPages Launch

Yesterday AT&T launched a new directory assistance service called AT&T 1-800-YellowPages. Consumers looking for a particular product can call the directory service and get a business number or be connected directly if the listen to a audio ads. The ads 5-10s long and advertise other busin

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