Featured Coverage
Mobile Commerce Daily, 10/12/2009
Brides Magazine Heads Down the Mobile Commerce Aisle
"...NearbyNow powers the application. The local search company is no stranger to applications for magazine brands. NearbyNow is also responsible for the Seventeen Fashion Finder application and Runner's World Shoe Shop."
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Marketing Vox, 8/12/2009
Magazines Moving to Mobile
"For a younger market now growing up on cell phones as their preferred media, this could be the spark the magazine industry needs."
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Local Mobile Search, 8/11/2009
NearbyNow Rolling Out iPhone Apps for Publishers
"What NearbyNow is doing with publishers is bringing them a new engagement and advertising platform that extends the reach of their brands and advertisers to demographically desirable audiences. "
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AdWeek, 2/18/2008
Walk the Talk
"New comparative Web sites like NearbyNow, Slifter and Frucall allow consumers to check for availability and compare prices of products."
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Chain Store Age, 1/1/07
Changing the Way You Shop, By Samantha Murphy
"Statistics reveal that more shoppers are researching merchandise on line, but making purchases in-store. To help mall-based retailers attract these time-starved, information-driven shoppers, malls are beginning to add a new search-engine solution that aggregates tenants' merchandise...."
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Wall St. Journal, 12/22/06
Search Engines Help Shoppers To Buy Locally, By James Covert
"Now that shoppers are accustomed to scouring the Web for the best prices on everything from TV sets to handbags, a new breed of search engine aims to help them figure out which local stores have the goods in stock..."
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Women's Wear Daily (subscription required), 12/1/06
Latest Search Engines Boost Local Stores, by Cate Corcoran
"There's no doubt this will be a very big and important part of the Internet going forward," said Matthew Booth, an analyst with research firm The Kelsey Group of Princeton, N.J., which tracks local advertising media...."
Additional Coverage
Pittsburgh Tribune Review, 4/4/2008
More people let fingers do talking
"NearbyNow Inc. said hundreds of Monroeville Mall and Westmoreland Mall customers use their cell phones each month to search for merchandise and sales."
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Dallas Morning News, 12/24/2007
Dallas-Fort Worth stores await late shopping rush
"For the first time, four area malls owned by General Growth Properties Inc. signed on with NearbyNow, a service that allows consumers to search inventory of stores at malls using the Internet or mobile phones and have merchandise held for them."
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Dallas Business Journal, 12/21/2007
DBJ Confidential
"The three shopping centers have teamed up with NearbyNow Inc. to provide a service that lets shoppers check store inventories online or with their mobile phones."
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TMJ4 . Milwaukee, 12/21/2007
Big, Last Minute Shopping Days This Weekend
"It's called nearbynow.com. All you have to do is go to the site and type in the brand name and it will tell you where in Mayfair or Brookfield that item is located and how many are left."
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USA Today - Part 2, 12/18/2007
Mobile devices come in handy for these shoppers
"Young people are much more likely than their parents to use their mobile devices for more than just talking. And they often put them to use for shopping, especially during the busy holiday season."
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Beaumont Enterprise, 12/14/2007
Web site tracks Parkdale Mall inventory
"Thanks to NearbyNow.com, shoppers can check if items are available at Parkdale Mall before they leave the house. They also can put the item on hold to pick up within 24 hours."
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Eden Prairie Sun/Sun Newspapers, 12/12/2007
Best of both shopping worlds
"NearbyNow's local search service is focused on making shopping as convenient as possible, Dunlap said."
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Screenwerk, 12/10/2007
NearbyNow.s New Directions
"I caught up with NearbyNow CEO Scott Dunlap today and learned some interesting things about user behavior and the potential future direction of the company."
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Directions Magazine, 12/7/2007
NearbyNow Identifies Top Local Search Trends for 2008
"NearbyNow, the online service that allows consumers throughout the United States to search all products, brands, and sales currently available at local shopping centers using the Internet or mobile phones, today announced the most groundbreaking search trends for 2008."
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Natchez Democrat , 12/3/2007
Malls now Internet searchable
"New technology is allowing shoppers to find out about product availability or the latest sale items at Bonita Lakes Mall in Meridian and Turtle Creek Mall in Hattiesburg without ever leaving home."
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The Storefront/The Roanoke Times, 11/27/2007
Shop with your cell phone
"In time for the holiday season, Roanoke's Valley View Mall now is offering shoppers the chance to search for a particular item by using their cell phones."
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techburgh.com, 10/30/2007
New Service Takes the Work Out of Holiday Shopping
"NearbyNow.com empowers shoppers by letting them check store inventory in 10 minutes or less at shopping malls in more than 130 cities from the Internet or mobile phone, and even reserve products for pick up before heading out the door."
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Staten Island Advance, 9/21/2007
Let your fingers do the walking, by Leslie Palma-Simoncek
"Online shopping just went interactive ..."
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 9/6/2007
DRESSING ROOM: A dresser.s worth of fashion news, by Helaine Williams
"NearbyNow confirms the product.s availability and lets you know when it will be available for pickup. When in the mall, use the mobile search service to find products and sales"
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UK Design - Lojas e Shopping Centers, 9/5/2007
Clientes online para os shoppings do mundo real, by Mario Sampaio Vianna
Savannah Business Report, 8/31/2007
Oglethorpe Mall is Savannah's First 'Searchable' Mall
"This service is powered by NearbyNow, Inc., the first company of its kind to provide Internet and mobile search technology for shopping centers."
Intelligencer Journal, 8/30/2007
Park City offers cell-phone searches, by Patrick Burns
"NearbyNow, allows consumers to search for products, brands or sale items at shopping center using the Internet"
The Edmond Sun, 8/18/2007
Online technology greets mall shoppers, by Alice Collinsworth
"[Shoppers] can "pre-shop" online for any product, brand or sale available in the mall using the Internet or a mobile phone - and then visit the mall to pick up their selections."
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Cincinnati Enquirer, 8/12/2007
Marketplace notes, by Jeff McKinney
"Shoppers at Kenwood Towne Centre can now look for items they want even before they go to the shopping center with a touch of their cell phone or a click on the Internet."
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Comparison Shopping Engine Strategies, 7/27/2007
NearbyNow: sign of a new CSE trend?, by Scott Hurff
"I think it will be good going for the company who can figure out the framework for connecting the on- and off-line worlds -- for everyone from the big to the little boys."
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San Fernando Valley Business Journal (subscription required), 7/21/2007
Around the Valleys, by Nadra Kareem
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 7/6/2007
Net result: Malls go high tech, by Gail Appleson
"Howe said the company was founded to harness the trend of consumers researching products online and then buying them in stores."
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Des Moines Register, 7/6/2007
New online tool benefits shoppers, by Patt Johnson
"By sending a text message, shoppers can find the nearest store in the mall that sells a specific product or advertises a sale."
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Chicago Sun-Times, 6/20/2007
Westfield launches online mall shopping service, by Tech Briefs
Daily Southtown, 6/13/2007
Westfield malls go high tech
The Australian mall operator said Tuesday it has partnered with NearbyNow to let customers browse items online and even reserve specific items before driving to the mall.
Self Service, 6/11/2007
Mobile shopping looks to change retail self-service, by Tamara Mendelsohn
NearbyNow, another local search-based application, gathers local inventory feeds from mall-based stores; when users search for specific products, the application sends back an SMS detailing which stores carry the product and whether it is in stock.
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St. Petersburg Times, 6/2/2007
Malls going to online service, by Mark Albright
"We're bringing together the store experience and the online world," Scott Dunlap said, Chief Executive of NearbyNow Inc.
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The Olympian, 6/1/2007
Shop at mall by phone, online, by Jim Szymanski
Westfield Capital mall shoppers now can use the Internet or cell phones to make shopping potentially more convenient.
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Red Herring, 4/24/2007
NearbyNow Bags $5 Million, by Herbert Sample
"This is useful for shoppers from both Mars and Venus"
The Journal Gazette, 4/7/2007
"Let Web do the walking", by Sherry Slater
"Let's say you know what you want ... and you want it fast."
Houston Chronicle, 3/30/2007
Woodlands Mall launches new Internet, mobile product searches, by Laura Isensee
"Some people like to buy online, some people like to buy in-store. We fit in between," ...
WANE-TV News, 3/20/2007
New Way to Shop at Glenbrook Square
"There is a new tool to make shopping at the mall a lot easier. It's a tool that allows Glenbrook Square shoppers to search for specific items on line..."
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The Birmingham News, 3/7/2007
Bricks-clicks service lets shoppers surf mall, by Sherri C. Goodman
"University of Alabama at Birmingham retailing expert Robert Robicheaux said the application is a 'really good way to marry the brick and click,' he said..."
Search Engine Land, 3/5/2007
Local Shopping Search Stalks E-commerce, by Greg Sterling
"NearbyNow, Inc. has inked $2.5 million in Series A financing to bring the local shopping mall to the home computer, VentureWire has learned..."
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Inside Collin County Business, 2/14/07
Search Stonebriar Online
"NearbyNow is an online shopping search engine specifically made for local malls. It allows consumers to search various products and compare prices online, but buy the products in person..."
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DIRECT Magazine, 2/1/07
Window-Shopping the Small Screen, By Brian Quinton
"Shoppers can receive ads and special offers via SMS, such as a free iTunes card for purchases at a selected merchant during a specific period of time, say the next 20 minutes....."
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DIRECT Magazine, 12/20/06
NearbyNow Puts the Mall on Your Mobile Phone, By Brian Quinton
"What would you give to be able to find out, without setting foot in that seething mass of frazzled parents, crying kids and overworked sales clerks, whether that set of barbells your Aunt Fanny had her eye on was available, and maybe even on sale? NearbyNow wants to give you that chance ..."
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Arizona Daily Star, 11/22/06
Shopping's easy at Park Place online, by Joseph Barrios
"Here's one way out of the crowded stores and long lines at the malls: shop at the mall online. Park Place mall has launched an online service that allows shoppers to search for any product or brand available in the mall by using the Internet...."
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Retail Traffic Magazine, 11/10/06
Googling The Mall
"The service works much like Google except rather than scanning the Internet, NearbyNow searches a database it builds by getting every tenant in a center to provide inventories of items for sale at the center...."
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Shopping Centers Today, 11/3/06
Cellular Sell, (ICSC)
"After a successful test run, mall owners General Growth Properties and Westfield Group are rolling out a new technology at some of their properties that allows shoppers to search products, brands and sale merchandise at a particular shopping center over the Internet or by mobile phone..."
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Screenwerk, 10/27/06
NearbyNow Building Incredible Value, by Greg Sterling
"NearbyNow is building out real-time retailer inventory on local mall sites...This is the very data that people at my final Kelsey show said would take 10 years to compile. It now appears, through NearbyNow's efforts and others' that it's going to take about two..."
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Marketing Trendz (subscription required), 10/26/06
The Early Adopters - General Growth Properties and Westfield Embrace Multi-Channel Shopping with NearbyNow, by Myriam Beauge
"The future belongs to multi-channel retailing...NearbyNow addresses this, making mall trips more efficient for shoppers and giving retailers an opportunity to increase sales productivity. "
San Jose Mercury News, 8/25/06
Find stores at mall to be as simple as going online, by Michele Chandler
"Talk about the perfect male-oriented tool," said online consultant Rob Enderle, principal of the Enderle Group. "We are not wonderful about shopping. We hunter-gatherer types want to get in, buy it and get out..."
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The Kelsey Group, 8/25/06
NearbyNow: Part Deux, by Mike Boland
"Mobile search applications are a hot topic right now, and NearbyNow realizes it can really unleash the potential of its search platform on mobile devices..."
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Search Engine Watch, 8/22/06
NearbyNow Brings New 'Inventory' To Local Search, by Gerg Sterling
"The "holy grail" of online shopping is local inventory information. Paradoxical as it may sound I say that because the overwhelming majority of transactions occur in local stores and that isn't going to change any time soon..."
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The Kelsey Group, 8/17/06
NearbyNow: A Preview, by Mike Boland
"Today I had the chance to speak with Scott Dunlap, CEO of NearbyNow, which has an interesting model for bringing inventory data online to drive offline conversions the company is worth checking out..."
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