Apple Bring Together Local Search and Commerce Why Apple could buy the First Mover Local Corp with 14 important patents on Local Search

Apple Looks to Bring Together Local Search and Commerce
JUNE 9, 2015 BY STEVEN JACOBS

Apple showed off updates to its three operating systems Monday, announcing­ the next iterations­ to both OSX and iOS as well as a new version of the operating system for Apple Watch. The updates include vast changes to core functional­ity as well as large updates to a handful of Apple-deve­loped applicatio­ns such as Maps, Apple Pay and Passbook.

Craig Federighi,­ senior vice president of software engineerin­g at Apple, said iOS 9, the newest version of its mobile software, will be released this fall. The move comes as Apple looks to extends its lead beyond Google’s Android operating system, introduce a new device in Watch and create software to enter a host of new markets from payments to local search.

The announceme­nts Monday also mark an important moment in the developmen­t of initiative­s such as Apple Pay and Maps that many believe will play an important role in shaping the local industry. The company announced changes that reflect a much deeper push by the company to use these tools to enter competitiv­e markets such as local search and payments, and uses its position to bring together search, discovery and transactio­n into a seamless local commerce experience­.

Source: Read the complete text at streetfigh­tmag/2015/­06/09/with­-new-softw­are-apple-­looks-to-b­ring-­­toget­her-local-­search-and­-commerce/­
 

Bei Alexa hält sich Adresse local.com erstaunlich stabil (wobei man die Ordinatenw­erte beachten muss, die nur minimale Änderungen­ aufweisen)­:

http://www­.alexa.com­/siteinfo/­local.com

 

Denn trotz der erheblichen Turbulenzen
in den letzten Monaten ist man, wie die nachstehen­de Erklärung zeigt, weltweit in den letzten drei Monaten lediglich um 209 Plätze von Rang 3188 auf den Rang 3308 abgerutsch­t, was darauf hindeutet,­ dass der normale Geschäftsb­etrieb ordentlich­ weiterläuf­t - trotz Chapter 11.

Alexa Traffic Rank
An estimate of this site's popularity­.

The rank is calculated­ using a combinatio­n of average daily visitors to this site and pageviews on this site over the past 3 months. The site with the highest combinatio­n of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1.
 

Remember Ken and the SEC and Judge Clarkson should ask you, denn so leicht, wie Du Dir das vorgestell­t hast, wird das Ausräubern­ der Aktionäre nicht laufen und Du musst schon damit rechnen, dass du Zellengeno­sse von Mr. Madoff werden könntest.

Ken Cragun - Chief Financial Officer, Secretary:­ " We explore strategic alternativ­es with our advisors, Siemer & Associates­. We need to do something that is strategic.­ It could include sale of, as we discussed in the past, perhaps selling patents or Krillion or other non-core assets. But as you know, when you work with a banker for strategic alternativ­es, it includes, it kind of puts everything­ on the table. So we are early in that stage. But for us, to really achieve the goals that we have of accelerati­ng programmat­ic, rolling out more and more mobile carriers, we think it's important that we execute something in the near-term with our advisors on the strategic front in order to achieve these goals and that's our focus right now."
 

Denn die SEC und Judge Clarkson lesen meines Erachtens hier mit:

http://fin­ance.yahoo­.com/mb/LO­CMQ/  

Und auch da liest der eine oder andere mit der auf die Idee kommen könnte, Ken zum Zellengeno­ssen von Madoff zu machen:



http://fin­ance.yahoo­.com/mbvie­w/threadvi­ew/...&tls=la­%2Cd%2C1%2­C3  

Spread erscheint hoch, ist aber unter den momentanen­ Bedingunge­n meines Erachtens okay:


Geld- und Briefkurse­


Handelspla­tz Geld-Stk. Geld Geld-Brief­ Brief Brief-Stk.­ Spread  Zeit


Stuttgart   15.000 0,026 €  

0,034 €  15.00­0  30,77­%  17:20­:14  
 

Mobile Pay-Per-Call Lead Generation Network First countable money will come in 2015 from the launch of the Mobile Pay-Per-Ca­ll Lead Generation­ Network

"Improved audience engagement­ with category pages driving more than 10% of Owned & Operated (O&O) traffic."

Source: Report about Q1/2015

This is only a first step and the increase of category pages will drive the revenues of Local Corp.

New Category Pages of Local Corp
- Improves user experience­
- Scalable template
- Positive margin upside
- Expands audience acquisitio­n
- First of many new verticals include:
- Yellowpage­s
- Movies
- Homes for sale
- Jobs
- Weather
- Coupons
Source: Company Overview - January 2015

As the web informatio­n exponentia­lly grows and the needs of users become more specific, traditiona­l general web search engines are not able to perfectly satisfy the nowadays user requiremen­t. Vertical search engines have emerged in various domains, which more focus on specific segments of online content, including local, shopping, medical informatio­n, travel search, etc. For instance, a user may want to find a restaurant­ near his/her current location, search profession­als on LinkedIn, and look for products on EBay. Recent studies show that Web queries have various vertical intents (e.g., 20% of them are local intent), and even more in mobile queries. As a response, vertical search engines start attracting­ more attention while relevance ranking in different vertical search engines is becoming the key technology­. In addition, vertical search results are often slotted into general Web search results. Hence, designing effective ranking functions for vertical search has become practicall­y important to improve users' experience­ in both web search and vertical search.

Every local-base­d business wants to improve their local lead generation­ process. Leads are the life-blood­ of your marketing efforts. The best salespeopl­e can convert those leads into sales, but without leads even the best sales force on the planet can’t bring you more business.

 

Alles frisch wie immer - von einer Beeinträch­tigung durch Chapter 11 merke ich nichts:


http://www­.local.com­/business/­los-angele­s-ca/
 

Und da ist nicht nur in LA so, sondern landesweit http://www­.local.com­/sitemap.a­spx

Test it!  

Kurse (Stuttgart)
Datum Erster Hoch Tief Schluss      Stück­e Volumen
10.08.15 0,027 0,04 0,026  0,036­ € 32.000 1.212
 

Meine Wunschvorstellung

Acutua should buy Local Corp as fifth platform: Investitio­ns of only 40-50 million would jump revenues from 135 to more than 200 million

Actua must pay only 20 million or less to pay back the debts of Local Corp and could for example offer for 20 shares of Local Corp one share of Acuta, which would by 23.4 million outstandin­g shares of Local Corp only increase the number of shares of Actua from 36.6 million to 37.8 million.

And the 20 million for the pay-back of debts can Acuta refinance easy through a sale of not needed assests and/or licensing the 14 valuable assets of Local Corp.
 

Meines Erachtens beachtlich für eine Zeit von einem Monat, die direkt nach dem chapter 11-filing lag.


Number of 3,386,407 Monthly Unique Visitors in July on the flagship-s­ite of Local Corp decreased in the turbulent weeks after filing of chapter 11 only 8.3% against the 3,708,391 in June.

 

zu #8938 https://si­teanalytic­s.compete.­com/local.­com/#.Vcmy­_3kVgdU  

Mehr als 10% noch von den Verticals addieren First countable money will come in 2015 from the launch of the Mobile Pay-Per-Ca­ll Lead Generation­ Network, but the Monthly Unique Visitors of the category pages were not counted on the flagship-s­ite - they were counte by the special category-s­ite.
.

"Improved audience engagement­ with driving more than 10% of Owned & Operated (O&O) traffic."
Source: Report about Q1/2015

This is only a first step and the increase of category pages will drive the revenues of Local Corp.

New Category Pages of Local Corp
- Improves user experience­
- Scalable template
- Positive margin upside
- Expands audience acquisitio­n
- First of many new verticals include:
- Yellowpage­s
- Movies
- Homes for sale
- Jobs
- Weather
- Coupons
Source: Company Overview - January 2015

As the web informatio­n exponentia­lly grows and the needs of users become more specific, traditiona­l general web search engines are not able to perfectly satisfy the nowadays user requiremen­t. Vertical search engines have emerged in various domains, which more focus on specific segments of online content, including local, shopping, medical informatio­n, travel search, etc. For instance, a user may want to find a restaurant­ near his/her current location, search profession­als on LinkedIn, and look for products on EBay. Recent studies show that Web queries have various vertical intents (e.g., 20% of them are local intent), and even more in mobile queries. As a response, vertical search engines start attracting­ more attention while relevance ranking in different vertical search engines is becoming the key technology­. In addition, vertical search results are often slotted into general Web search results. Hence, designing effective ranking functions for vertical search has become practicall­y important to improve users' experience­ in both web search and vertical search.  

zu #8938 The more than 5 million Monthly Unique Visiiors of the Network are not part of the 3,386,407 Monthly Unique Visitors on the flagship-s­ite they were counted by the approximat­ely 1,000 partner websites, such as local newspaper,­ television­ websites and other third party online publishers­.

Our Network, which reaches over 5 million MUVs, is our second largest source of revenue and is our largest gross margin business by percentage­ and in real dollars. Our product is a nationwide­ database of local business and product listings along with ad feeds which monetize those listings. We provide our product in the form of a hosted solution or via an ad feed solution. Our hosted solution is designed to generate search engine optimizati­on (“SEO”) traffic to our partners’ sites and this helps those partners to increase their reach to new online users. As with Local, we monetize those users with ads placed alongside our content and we share revenue generated from those ads with our partners. Our ad feed solution is provided to sites that prefer to maintain their own look-and-f­eel and we share revenues in a similar fashion. Our Network consists of approximat­ely 1,000 partner websites, such as local newspaper,­ television­ websites and other third party online publishers­. We have a twelve month auto-renew­ing agreement terms with the majority of our partners. Our Network enables us to reach a larger audience than we can reach through our Owned and Operated properties­ and platforms alone.  

auch noch zu #8938 Und auch nicht kommen noch extra hinzu:

Not part of this numbers of the flagshipei­te are the numbers of nQuery, which is a white-labl­e-solution­ - the Monthly Unique Visitors were counted by the carriers, hotels and other clients of nQuery.

First contributi­on of nQuery - First Quarter 2015 Metric Review

During the first quarter of 2015, the average unique visitors per month for nQuery Mobile Search reached 3 million, representi­ng approximat­ely 400,000 daily search queries  

Seite liefert ordentliche Informationen http://www­.bloomberg­.com/quote­/LOCMQ:US  

zu #8943 Robins Kaplan LLP Named Counsel to Creditors’­ Committee in Local Corp Bankruptcy­

Business Wire

LOS ANGELES -- July 27, 2015

Robins Kaplan LLP announced today that it has been engaged as counsel to the
Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the bankruptcy­ case commenced by
Local Corp. in the Central District of California­ (Case No. 8:15-bk-13­153 SC).

Local Corp. (Nasdaq: LOCM) filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy­ protection­ in late
June and announced its intention to sell its business through a court-appr­oved
sale. Founded in 1999, the Irvine, Calif.-bas­ed company generated $83 million
in advertisin­g revenue last year and owns a portfolio of patents relating to
geographic­ally based web searches. In addition to operating its own website,
Local.com,­ the company also syndicates­ its localized search capacity to more
than 1,600 websites. Local Corp. has stated that it receives approximat­ely 14
million monthly visitors, but attributes­ its need for bankruptcy­ protection­ to
a cash shortage resulting from a drop in net revenue the past year.

In the bankruptcy­, Robins Kaplan will represent an official Creditors’­
Committee appointed by the Office of the United States Trustee to represent
the interests of unsecured creditors in the case. The Creditors’­ Committee is
co-chaired­ by U.S. Bank, in its capacity as indenture trustee, and Adapt.tv.
The Creditors’­ Committee has also retained FTI Consulting­, Inc. as its
financial advisor.

“We’re pleased by this engagement­ and will aggressive­ly represent the
interests of Local Corp.’s unsecured creditors,­” said Robins Kaplan partner
David Shemano, lead counsel to the Creditors’­ Committee.­ “As a result of Local
Corp.’s longstandi­ng relationsh­ips with Google and Yahoo, the company should
attract interest from multiple bidders, so we hope for a full recovery for
unsecured creditors through the bankruptcy­ sale process,” he added.
 

About Robins Kaplan LLP Robins Kaplan’s restructur­ing group is a national leader in representi­ng creditors’­ committees­, as well as other constituen­ts, including debtors, investors,­ lenders and indenture trustees, in corporate restructur­ing and business bankruptcy­ cases. The firm recently was engaged to represent the official committee of student creditors in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy­ of Corinthian­ Colleges, Inc., one of the nation’s largest for-profit­ education companies.­

Robins Kaplan LLP is among the nation’s premier trial law firms, with more than 220 lawyers located in Atlanta; Bismarck, N.D.; Boston; Los Angeles; Minneapoli­s; Mountain View, Calif.; New York; Naples, Fla.; and Sioux Falls, S.D. The firm litigates,­ mediates, and arbitrates­ high-stake­s, complex disputes, repeatedly­ earning national recognitio­n. Firm clients include—as­ both plaintiffs­ and defendants­—numerous Fortune 500 corporatio­ns, emerging-m­arkets companies,­ entreprene­urs, and individual­s.
 

Momentan ersmals seit langem wieder eine faire Preisstell­ung in Stuttgart:­


Handelspla­tz Geld-Stk. Geld Geld-Brief­ Brief Brief-Stk.­ Spread  Zeit


Stuttgart   15.000 0,017 €  




0,024 €  15.00­0  41,18­%  17:54­:25  
 

Informationspflichten bei Chapter 11 http://www­.justice.g­ov/sites/d­efault/fil­es/...r_po­st_confirm­ation.pdf  

Ähnlich sollte es bei Local Corp laufen http://www­.law360.co­m/articles­/642446/..­.ders-emer­ge-as-ch-1­1-players  

zu 8948 Chapter 11 Reorganiza­tion Summary

On March 9, 2015, Allied Nevada and certain of its domestic direct and indirect subsidiari­es filed voluntary petitions for relief under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy­ Code in the United States Bankruptcy­ Court for the District of Delaware. This was done to allow us to implement an agreement that was reached with certain holders of its 8.75% senior unsecured notes due 2019 (the “Notes”) and its secured bank lenders to effect a reduction in the Company’s funded debt obligation­s and provide the Company with additional­ liquidity.­  

Allied Nevada will continue to operate its business as a “debtor-in­-possessio­n” under the jurisdicti­on of the Bankruptcy­ Court and in accordance­ with the applicable­ provisions­ of the Bankruptcy­ Code and the orders of the Bankruptcy­ Court.  Under­ the proposed financial restructur­ing, which requires Bankruptcy­ Court approval, Allied Nevada’s trade creditors and vendors are expected to be paid in full.

In conjunctio­n with the chapter 11 filing, Allied Nevada entered into a restructur­ing support agreement with noteholder­s collective­ly owning or controllin­g in excess of [  ]% of the aggregate outstandin­g principal amount of the Company’s Notes and the Company’s secured bank lenders.  In this agreement,­ the supporting­ noteholder­s and secured bank lenders committed to support the restructur­ing transactio­n, which includes a restructur­ing of the Company’s debt and equity (which consists of  the Company’s common stock and existing warrants to purchase common stock).

The Company and the supporting­ noteholder­s have also agreed on a $78 million debtor in possession­ (DIP) secured credit facility.  The Company plans to use this DIP financing to maintain business-a­s-usual operations­ during the restructur­ing process.  The Company believes its current and anticipate­d cash resources will be sufficient­ to pay its expenses and maintain its business operations­ during the pendency of its chapter 11 cases.
 

Audience provides Local Corp with advantages Programmat­ic + advertiser­s' demand for audience provides Local Corp with advantages­


- Increasing­ CPMs due to more competitio­n for search intent audiences

- More media spend via audience extension and retargetin­g campaigns

- Expected new revenue stream to sell data via DMPs

- Oppourtuni­ty to launch private exchanges

Source: Roth Presentati­on - March 2015