Facebook is expanding its Community Help hub to better serve local communities amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The hub has already seen significant usage by those requesting food, supplies and information
Neighborhood social networking app Nextdoor is rolling out a few changes focused on supporting local businesses. The COVID-19 outbreak has forced many businesses to close their doors, sometimes for go
Google Maps will soon begin testing a new feature that’s more common to social networks like Facebook, rather than a maps app: the ability to find and follow other users. In Google Maps’ c
We’re still very far away from real-time Google Street View or satellite imagery on Google Maps, but Google is, for the first time, introducing video in parts of its mapping service. Users who a
From rising rents to online competitors, local stores and restaurants face enough challenges outside of their own doors that basic stuff like scheduling employees’ shifts and breaks should feel easy
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.foursquare.com">Foursquare</a>, a company now focused on transforming itself into a source of local business information and reviews more along the lines of Yelp, i
Google has quietly launched a new program called <a target="_blank" href="https://www.google.com/local/contest/cityexpert">Google City Experts</a> to encourage more high-quality local business ratings
Local business data provider Locu is announcing a partnership with Yelp today, in order to help update Yelp’s menus and other listings data with Locu’s real-time information directly fro
Lightbank has invested $650,000 in its own <a target="_blank" href="http://www.lightbank.com/team">Founder-in-Residence</a> Josh Hernandez's new startup, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.walk.by/">
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.glassmap.com/">Glassmap</a>, the YC-backed location startup <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/02/16/yc-backed-glassmap-launches-a-find-my-friends-for-facebook-us
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.locu.com">Locu</a>, a Boston-based local business data provider born out of Sir Tim Berners-Lee's lab at MIT, is today officially launching its commerce dashboard f
The mobile apps from stealthy loyalty startup <a href="http://www.punchcard.com/">Punchcard</a> have only been on the market since February, but the company is now reporting it's close to being cash-f