#LDS15 Stefan Weitz: Machines Have Enough Data to Understand the Real World
Search has already become a critical part of our lives. But Stefan Weitz, the outgoing director of search at Microsoft, believes search will help hinge together the growing capacity of machines with...
View Article#LDS15 Why Google Will Dominate Local Search for a Decade
Over the past few years, some watchers of the technology industry have suggested that Google was at risk of losing its hold on the search market. The shift to mobile, they argued, would chip away at...
View Article#LDS15 Why Payments Data Is the Next Goldmine for Retailers
What we buy often tells a lot about who we are. That’s why payments data – information about what consumers buy, when they buy it, where they are coming from and every other detail imaginable – has...
View ArticleStreet Fight Daily: Investors Eye Craigslist Killers, Google’s New Insurance...
A roundup of today’s big stories in hyperlocal publishing, marketing, commerce, and technology… Investors Are Drooling Over Two New Craigslist Competitors. One Might Raise $100 Million (Recode) Two...
View Article#LDS15 Gil Elbaz: Location Isn’t Just Where You Are
Some of the most interesting opportunities being utilized in business today are enabled by an ever-growing, ever-changing entity: the data stream. Local data — information about the real world — can...
View Article#LDS15 VIDEO: The Potential — And Pitfalls — Of Beacon Marketing
It’s not just about the product or service anymore — retailers must support a positive shopper experience across different channels in order to compete. During a panel at Street Fight’s Local Data...
View Article#LDS15 VIDEO: How MasterCard Uses Its Payments Data to Understand Customers
MasterCard may make its money on payments, but the company is increasingly built on data. During a presentation at Street Fight’s Local Data Summit in Denver earlier this month, Cristobel von...
View Article#LDS15: Taking Programmatic Advertising Into the Real World
Programmatic marketing is projected to nearly double in the next year to a $20 billion market by 2016, according to BIA/Kelsey‘s Mike Boland, who led a panel on leveraging data and profiles for next...
View Article#LDS15 VIDEO: Payments, Panels, and the Push for Mobile Attribution
Offline attribution has become one of the defining challenges of the mobile advertising industry. Consumers are often using their devices to make purchases in stores — not online — creating an ongoing...
View Article#LDS15 VIDEO: “Put the Internet Into Products — Not Products on the Internet”
“How we use these devices and how we examine our behavior is really important, because your life is now officially a platform. And if your life is a platform, how you live your life is going to become...
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