Adding to its LBS portfolio, eBay has acquired Boston-based WHERE.com, which has a popular mobile app and operates a “hyper-local” mobile ad network. Last year eBay bought local product inventory finder Milo.com.
The terms of the WHERE deal were not disclosed.
WHERE, which began as uLocate, will apparently be housed in the PayPal business unit. [...]
BORRELL ASSOCIATES SURVEY While newspapers still dominate when it comes to generating local online advertising dollars, Internet pure-plays — specifically fledgling daily deals site Groupon and car marketplace Autotrader.com — have made huge gains in the space, bringing in the most money in about one-fifth of the markets covered in Borrell Associate’s “Benchmarking Local Online [...]
Students ranked Disney as their first employer preference for the fourth year, according to a survey of top students.
This is the fourth annual survey of the National Society of High School Scholars — high-achieving students ages 16-22. The previous survey results were published in the March 2008, April 2009, and April 2010 issues [...]
