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AI Startups Dominate Q2 Venture Tally
According to research firm CB Insights’ State of Venture Q2 report, AI-focused startups accounted for 28% of venture funding globally in the second quarter of
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Are SMBs Ready for AI?
With $6 million in seed funding, Enso aims to assist various SMB daily operations and marketing tasks through pre-programed and purpose-built AI agents.
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Google Local Search, SOCi Chat, Walmart, World’s Top Retailers Lead This Week In Local – July 8
The past week in Local news was highlighted with the news of Google local search enhancements, the new SOCi Chat, Walmart’s immersive shopping play and
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Soci Chat is An AI-Fueled Resource for Multi-Location Businesses
Soci has met the moment with its latest release: an AI-powered chatbot. Known as SOCi Chat, it lets its users (multi-location businesses) offer their users (consumers) streamlined ways to ask questions and interact.
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How Will AI Disrupt the Accounting World?
.There are certain incessant questions raised by generative AI. Where will advancements in AI plug existing holes in workflows? And where will it create disruptions
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Local Strategy Is More Important Than Ever for Search
2024 has been a busy year for SEO, with everything from a major Google core update to a potentially huge Google Search algorithm leak shaking
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Tiger Pistol, Amazon , Big Tech, Meta AI and WhatsApp Lead This Week in Local – June 24
The past week in Local news was highlighted with the news of Tiger Pistol partnering with Amazon, big tech’s ad revenue dominance surging, Meta halting
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What’s New with WhatsApp?
A sudden stream of WhatsApp news recently crossed our desks and reached critical mass. So we’re taking this opportunity to check in with the company, in the form of a breakdown on its latest moves and how the dots connect.
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Read AI Dials in Email, Transcripts with New Features
Read AI is a startup that competes in the “remote tech” space that we sometimes write about here at Localogy Insider. The company has just
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Will Big AI Be Forced to Go Green?
It wasn’t so long ago that Bitcoin was under heavy fire for using vast amounts of energy to mine a single coin. Today this environmental
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E75: Cracking the SMB Marketing Code with Lasso’s Mike Wilson
In E75, Localogy analyst Mike Boland talks about automating the art of campaign management with Lasso Media Founder and local search veteran Mike Wilson. The
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Uberall-Leadzai Partner to Advance AI-Driven Pay Per Lead
Uberall and Leadzai, leaders in the AI-driven evolution of local search, have teamed up to advance AI-driven pay-per-lead. This deal fits with a shift in
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LeadzAI Leads a Shift from Ads to Offers
‘Pay-per-results’ engine LeadzAI offers SMBs the ability to have programmatic offers-based campaigns. Co-founder and CEO Joao Aroso told Localogy Insider that this is what SMBs want: Sales, not clicks.
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Sam’s Club Jumps into ‘Exit Tech’
Sam’s Club is the latest retailer to integrate technology that expedites or replaces the traditional checkout aisle. The technology – which we’re calling exit tech – is meant to streamline longstanding logistical bottlenecks in retail.
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Yelp’s Spring Product Release Leans on LLMs
Yelp launched its annual Spring product release. And it’s heavy on AI. Specifically, the company is positioning large language models to better connect consumers and local businesses.
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vcita: Where Do AI and SMBs Meet?
vcita is already devising AI tools that are meant to alleviate longstanding SMB pain points, such as assisting with marketing workflows and broader business strategy.
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E68 Asks if AI Will Displace Aspiring GenZ Influencers
In E68 of Localogy’s This Week in Local, co-hosts Mike Boland and Charles Laughlin ask if GenZ’s who dream of becoming influencers should consider another
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L24: Reputation Management in an AI-Driven World
AI is changing everything from the creation of visual art to making credit decisions. It’s also changing how small businesses manage ratings, reviews, and their
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E67 Explores TikTok’s Efforts to Stave Off a Ban
In E67 of Localogy’s This Week in Local podcast, co-hosts Mike Boland and Charles Laughlin talk about the looming U.S. TikTok ban and the short
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GenZ Influencer Dreams Fade Away in the AI Era
Anyone who knows me knows I am not a young man. For me, an avocado green rotary phone on the kitchen wall isn’t weird. Not