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AT&T Opens Mobile App Incubator In Texas
The Dallas News reports that AT&T has officially opened a new center in Plano, Texas, to help mobile app developers create and launch their work. “The AT&T Foundry in Plano is a slick,...
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Lock & Door Contractor Blames SuperMedia Yellow Pages For Their Own Bad Service
The Morning Call in Pennsylvania reports about how “Always In Service”, a lock and door company, have run afoul of customers and the state’s attorney general office. In fact the attorney general’s...
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Drop In Major IYP Traffic
According to Google Trends, it appears there may have been a significant drop in traffic from Google referrals to major Internet Yellow Pages (IYPs) sites: Yellowpages.com, Superpages.com, Yelp.com,...
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Amazon’s Daily Deals Is Yet Another Flirtation With Local
It’s almost, but not quite, shocking to me that Amazon has launched another experiment into local business marketing with the Amazon Local daily deals service. I just got an email promotion for...
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Infogroup’s New Directory Poses SEO Challenge To IYPs
Infogroup‘s Monday announcement of enhancements for their Express Update service mainly focused upon how they could help businesses claim their listings, optimize through an expanded set of data...
View ArticleAT&T Selling Off Yellow Pages Unit?
AT&T (NYSE: T) appears to’ve obliquely referred to their YP unit as a “low-performing” “non-strategic asset”, and signaled that they might sell it off. If this sequence of events sounds familiar,...
View ArticleRHD Suit Settled for $25 Million – Yellow Pages Obsolescence Claimed
A class-action lawsuit brought by stockholders against the former R.H. Donnelley Yellow Pages company and some of its executives was settled earlier this month for $25 Million. The stockholders in the...
View ArticleAT&T Lets The Walking Fingers Take a Walk – Selling Stake in Yellow Pages
AT&T has decided to sell a 53% stake in its Yellow Pages unit to Cerberus Capital Management for $950 million. Jennifer Fritzsche, an analyst with Wells Fargo, referred to the valuation as...
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Bain Capital & Mitt Romney’s Involvement with Italy’s Yellow Pages Debacle
My attention was drawn to this Bloomberg article today, “Romney Persona Non Grata in Italy for Bain’s Deal Skirting Taxes“, brought to my attention by a Tweet from Greg Sterling. Let me note upfront...
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Double Bankruptcy Required for Dex One / SuperMedia Yellow Pages Merger?!?
In nothing short of earth-shattering news, it was reported that the Dex One – SuperMedia yellow pages companies merger is apparently on the rocks due to the companies’ creditors being unwilling to...
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