In its fourth-quarter earnings call last week, the company described local mobile advertising as a "huge" opportunity.
Though rates vary depending on the app and ad format, marketers generally pay more for local mobile ads.
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Larry demos a phone version, Google Local Mobile.
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As consumers jump on the trend, businesses are paying closer attention to their local-mobile presence.
WhitePages is still hunting for ways to keep growing through local and mobile products.
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Business owners of all types are trying to sort out local and mobile, as well as social and Yelp is a big part of all three.
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Trevor is the President and co-founder of LocalVox, a local social and mobile marketing platform for local businesses that was named one of the top startups in NYC by Business Insider.
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Yet Facebook could struggle to shop a more deeply-embedded mobile service in emerging markets, where local apps born on mobile platforms dominate the landscape.
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Predictive and aggregated mobile local data analysis will open up new business opportunities.
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Thus a new generation of external storage devices (wired and wireless) are developing to support greater local storage for mobile devices.
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Some 30 television stations in 17 cities across the country have now installed additional transmitters on their towers to beam live local broadcasts to mobile receivers mostly for nothing.
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Thus the battle between local and on-line storage continues to drive a new generation of enterprise storage for the cloud as well as external local storage for mobile devices.
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So when users search on their mobile device for local restaurants or a neighborhood dry cleaner, they reach for apps like OpenTable or Yelp rather than a mobile browser.
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Meanwhile, the confluence of social, mobile and local is seeping into the corporate world.
Because a local, social, mobile app that manages to get 100, 000 users is more significant than anything else out there.
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WhitePages, the Seattle-based provider of business and personal contact information, is one such firm that views mobile and local services as its future.
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These are apps like WhatsApp and Nimbuzz that are not popular, but already have all-important, complex relationships with local carriers and even mobile developers.
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By forming Pearl, each founding TV group underscored their individual and collective commitments to the vital extension of local broadcasting onto the mobile platform.
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To extend its reach, the Japanese company, known for its high-definition televisions and camcorders but a minor player in the smartphone market, signed an agreement with a local firm, Jaina Mobile India Pvt.
And residents in some German towns can switch on local street lights using their mobile phones.
He started by helping out in the studio, and then began reporting on a mobile phone at local football matches.
Surrey is among many local authorities to cut its mobile library service.
In addition to increased local storage, the Touro Mobile Pro solution provides two levels of protection with 3GB of free cloud storage from TouroCloudBackup.com.
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Bu now, in terms of mobile mapping, local businesses have to worry about both how they are represented on two platforms instead of just Google.
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