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Apple Infuses Business Connect Deeper into its Ecosystem
Apple has announced that it’s expanding Apple Business Connect (ABC) deeper into its apps and features, including Mail, Tap to Pay, and Phone.
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Apple Vaults Visual Search
One particular flavor of AI stood out during Apple’s Glowtime event: visual search. Specifically, Apple’s Visual Intelligence will be a valuable part of the Apple Intelligence mix.
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Apple Doubles Down on Intelligence, Introduces Visual Search
During Apple’s big Fall hardware event yesterday, one thing that stood out (besides the new iPhone 18 line) was its commitment to Apple Intelligence. First announced at the Spring WWDC event, Apple Intelligence will permeate Apple devices and apps, bringing more AI and automation into the mix.
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Siri Gets a Stay of Execution
Apple Intelligence will uplevel Siri, answering our question of whether Siri gets killed or gets a brain transplant. How exactly will Siri improve? We go down the list.
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Apple Maps Comes to a Browser Near You
Starting in public beta, users can access Apple Maps for the first time via their web browser, including directions, curated city guides, and other app favorites like Look Around.
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Retail Media Leads This Week in Local – June 3
The past week in Local news was highlighted with financial services entering the retail media space, Apple and Google updating Maps to be more SMB
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E74: Talking Local Search Trends with SOCi’s Damian Rollison
In E74, Localogy analyst Mike Boland welcomes SOCi Director of Market Insight Damian Rollison, a research whiz whom Mike anoints as an honorary lifetime member
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E73: Helping SMBs Apple Their Businesses
In E73, co-hosts Mike Boland and Charles Laughlin talk about Apple’s moves to make it even easier for small businesses to control how they appear
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Apple Adds Custom Action Links to Business Connect
Apple has launched a new custom actions feature feature in its Business Connect offering for local businesses. Known as Custom Action Links, they let businesses decide what types of user actions they want to drive in their Apple Maps place card.
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E66 Explores the Meaning Behind Read.ai’s $21M Series A
In E66 of Localogy’s This Week in Local, co-hosts Mike Boland and Charles Laughlin unpack what we learned from future of work startup Read.ai’s recent
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E65 Explores Walmart’s Extension of Retail Media to SMBs
In E65 of Localogy’s This Week in Local podcast, co-hosts Mike Boland and Charles Laughlin talk about extending retail media networks to small businesses. Mike
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E64 Explores Big Tech’s EU Regulatory Reckoning
In E64 of Localogy’s This Week in Local podcast, co-hosts Mike Boland and Charles Laughlin talk about some legal and regulatory actions that Big Tech
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Vision Pro Launch Day: Previewing Apple’s Future
What is Apple Vision Pro? Who’s it meant for? And how does it fit into Apple’s future-proofing plan for its hardware business? We go deep on the device’s role in a signature Apple product lifecycle.
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Apple Refines its Immersive Maps
While Apple invests in catching up to Google in online mapping, one competitive edge could come from immersive 3D navigation and wayfinding. We examine the latest.
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Apple Brings 3D Maps to Denmark & Greece
The mapping wars continue to heat up as Apple Maps accelerates its feature rollouts to catch up with the dominant Google Maps. Its latest move is to bring “Look Around” and “Detailed City Experience” to Denmark and Greece.
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Ep. 41 Examines the AI Arms Race and Dumb Diversification
“If you squinted your eyes you would think this was an AI event and not a Pixel 8 event.” Subscribe to This Week in Local
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Ep. 34 Unpacks Apple’s Adventures in Banking
“Banking is foundationally a trust-driven business…and that is what Apple is doing. That is the game they are playing.” In Episode 34 of Localogy’s This
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Apple: A Lesson in Big-Tech Revenue Diversification
After a decade and a half of runaway growth, global ubiquity, massive revenues, and planet-scale value creation, the iPhone has matured. So how do you keep satisfying massive growth requirements? Adjacent markets.
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Apple Maps Raises the Stakes
Apple Maps has announced that some of its most colorful new features – including Look Around and “Detailed City Experience” – are now more widely available in 20 additional cities.
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Ep. 32 Asks Will Apple GPT Kill Siri & Does “X” Mark the Super App?
“If you can pull off a super app, you have a few things. You have scale. You have stickiness. And you have sustainability. The three