Google received some good news in the form of a stay of divestiture for its Chrome browser. Though it still faces punitive and preventative antitrust measures, the biggest bullet has been dodged.
Ai-centric enterprise communications company Sendbird this week added to its arsenal with a voice-automation tool. Known as Senbird Voice AI, it’s meant to handle inbound customer service and offload the manual rigor that goes into it. It boasts features like response speed and natural voice interaction.
Google this week added to its rapidly expanding AI arsenal with a set of tools for generating talking-head videos. Use cases include product how-tos, support modules, or spokesperson-based video ads. This update adds avatars and other features to Google’s existing and underexposed Vids tool.
In this edition of Localogy’s Local Radar, we focus on AI and SMB-SaaS startups addressing the legal vertical.
We recently caught up with Network Solutions Director of Online Marketing Alicia Pringle, who’s been developing insights around the new holiday marketing playbook. The short version is that SMBs need to get a jump on holiday promotions now, including a few key SEO action items.
Location intelligence and data management platform Precisely today announced two products to support location-based marketing. The first is an audience insights tool called Dynamic Neighborhoods. And the second is Signal Engine, a tool to organize and gain insights from brands’ first-party data.
Google’s AI Mode just took its latest steps forward. And these steps involve both global and local expansion. For the former, it’s available in more countries. And for the latter, its agentic functions are now more capable for typical local search needs, like finding restaurants and booking appointments.
Historically, multi-location businesses have focused on ranking in the top three results in Google Search and Maps, but with the proliferation of AI search and
Agentic AI platform Sendbird this week announced a collaboration with AWS that should accelerate its exposure and adoption. This happens on a few levels, including helping AWS expand its agentic AI capabilities and positioning as a launch partner for AWS Marketplace’s AI Agents and Tools category.
Seattle-based retail tech provider Augmodo this week announced that it has secured $37.5 million. The round was led by TQ Ventures, with participation from existing investors Lerer Hippeau, NewFare, WIN, and Interlace. New investors in the round include Arena Holdings and Jefferson River Capital.
In this edition of Localogy’s Local Radar, we examine newly funded companies Rillet, LegalOn & Calo
When it comes to local search, standard best practices will only get you so far. The name of the game is to work with factors that are regional and vertically specific.
For businesses with multiple locations, local search success takes more than complete Google Business Profiles and a basic brand website. To stand out in both
Vendasta roared out of the gates today with two interlinked announcements. The first is the launch of its AI Customer Acquisition and Engagement Platform for
Most AI engines are launching or have aspirations to launch their own browsers. This gives them a certain degree of control and independence over Google and Apple, while enjoying some vertical integration and positioning. We examine latest developments.
Reddit continues to elevate itself as an SEO powerhouse and destination for topical – sometimes esoteric – knowledge, including local fare. As it continues to hit key milestones, we’ve watched closely but arguably haven’t given it the ink it deserves. So let’s dive into Reddit and what’s driving it.
One of the AI era’s emerging topics – and source of much handwringing in the media sphere – is the technology’s acceleration of zero-click search. vcita weighs in with tips & tactics.
While it is very normal to encounter a plethora of opinions on optimization for a page to increase ranking and, therefore, revenue for clients in
Instagram this week fired the latest shot in the social mapping wars. It announced Instagram Map, a social mapping tool that resembles Snap Map in arraying content and friend updates on a Map UI. This is just the latest in a string of Instagram mapping moves that built up to this point.
Yelp made a move this week that deepens its relationships with national brands – an area of development housed in its Yelp for Brands division. Specifically, it launched a toolkit for consumer-facing brands to more effectively market themselves in location-relevant ways, including local flair & flavors.
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