Klarna Looks for Pre-IPO Revenue Diversification via Subscriptions
Klarna, the Swedish fintech that is one of the biggest players in buy now, pay later, is said to be pursuing an IPO this year.
Charles Laughlin
January 31, 2024
Pro Features
Which SMB Verticals See the Highest Margins?
How do profit margins vary across SMB verticals? DoorDash recently broke it down as a sort of content-marketing PSA. We highlight the findings and add our own take.
Mike Boland
January 31, 2024
SOCi
Soci, Smarsh Team Up to Make Compliance Easier
“Compliance” is one of those words that conjures up few inviting images. Actually, it conjures up none. Unless lawyers, paperwork, and unsympathetic regulators give you
Charles Laughlin
January 30, 2024
Pro Features
Yelp Releases a Barrage of AI-Powered Features
Yelp has announced several new features to uplevel its functionality across the board. The whopping 20 new features and updates include formal recognition for power reviewers, a new user-facing feed for content discovery, request-a-quote improvements, and business-facing insights.
Mike Boland
January 30, 2024
AI
E54 Examines the Latest FedEx eCommerce Move and Uber’s Drizly Drop
In E54 of Localogy’s This Week in Local podcast, senior analysts Mike Boland and Charles Laughlin have fun with a couple of tech topics recently
Charles Laughlin
January 29, 2024
Pro Features
Google and Walmart Put the AI in Retail
One category that’s seen an uptick in AI activity is retail. Companies continue to ask themselves how AI can help build strategies around seasonal trends or automate their online strategies. We examine the latest from Walmart and Google.
Mike Boland
January 26, 2024
Pro Features
Amazon’s Just Walk Out Enters the Enterprise
Amazon’s Just Walk Out tech continues to find new use cases. The latest involves transactional zones within enterprise spaces, such as cafeterias. We examine drivers & dynamics.
Mike Boland
January 25, 2024
Pro Features
Yelp Reports All-Time High in New Business Openings
Yelp reports in its New Business Openings Report that 2023 saw a record number of SMBs open in the U.S. – a strong health indicator for the U.S. economy. We dive into the numbers
Mike Boland
January 24, 2024
Fintech
Is It Slimming Season? Fintechs Are Shedding Fat
Some of the biggest names in fintech are doing their part to make this January among the most miserable in recent memory. At least for
Charles Laughlin
January 23, 2024
Benchmark Bytes
Where Do SMB In-Person Software Sales Go Wrong?
Benchmark Bytes is a series that examines Localogy’s original data on SMB tech deployment. Based on its recent Small Business Trends report, each installment drills down on a data excerpt and draws out meaning for Localogy Insider readers.
Mike Boland
January 23, 2024
Scorpion
Scorpion Becomes ServiceTitan Preferred Digital Marketing Partner
The local digital marketing platform Scorpion has secured its place as the preferred digital marketing partner for ServiceTitan. In turn, ServiceTitan becomes Scorpion’s preferred software
Charles Laughlin
January 22, 2024
2024 May Be a Wild Ride for Big City Real Estate
Localogy Insider is about local advertising, commerce, small businesses SaaS, etc. It isn’t a publication about commercial real estate. Yet sometimes the intersections cannot or at
Charles Laughlin
January 19, 2024
Pro Features
Google Lens Gets More Intelligent
Google Lens now boasts more intelligence to not only identify items in a photo or live camera feed but also let users go deeper in asking questions about said items.
Mike Boland
January 19, 2024
Pro Features
Copilot Revenue Model Materializes
Microsoft Copilot will offer a Pro plan that unlocks premium features. At $20 per month, it includes expanded generative AI features on PCs and Macs across products like Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote.
Mike Boland
January 18, 2024
Amazon
FedEx Jumps into eCommerce-as-a-Service
There’s a new eCommerce player in town: FedEX. A longtime component in the broader eCommerce value chain, it’s now expanding its position from shipping & logistics to business-facing software.
Mike Boland
January 17, 2024
A Pandemic Baby’s Incurable Hangover
I learned about the demise of Drizly, a service I have never used (not that I remember anyway), today via an email message from, well,
Charles Laughlin
January 16, 2024
Benchmark Bytes
How Satisfied are SMBs with In-Person Software Sales?
Benchmark Bytes is a series that examines Localogy’s original data on SMB tech deployment. Based on its recent Small Business Trends report, each installment drills down on a data excerpt and draws out meaning for Localogy Insider readers.
Mike Boland
January 16, 2024
AI
E53 Examines Google’s EV Ambitions and the AI Adoption Path for SMBs
In E53 of Localogy’s This Week in Local podcast, senior analysts Mike Boland and Charles Laughlin kick around a couple of tech topics they’ve been
Charles Laughlin
January 15, 2024
Payments
X Flies Closer to Super-App Ambitions
It’s no secret that Elon’s master plan is to evolve X into a super app, or as he puts it “the everything app.” This week, the latest domino fell. X laid out its 2024 road map, which includes integrating peer-to-peer (P2P) payments.
Mike Boland
January 12, 2024
SMBs Share Economic Anxiety, Views on AI in vcita Study
A new study released this week by small business software firm vcita offers more color on how small businesses are feeling about the economic environment,
Charles Laughlin
January 11, 2024
