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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/
 

stabil (wobei man die Ordinatenwerte beachten muss, die nur minimale Änderungen aufweisen):

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

 

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.

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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."
 

meines Erachtens hier mit:

http://finance.yahoo.com/mb/LOCMQ/  

der auf die Idee kommen könnte, Ken zum Zellengenossen von Madoff zu machen:



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

den momentanen Bedingungen meines Erachtens okay:


Geld- und Briefkurse


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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.

 

Beeinträchtigung durch Chapter 11 merke ich nichts:


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

http://www.local.com/sitemap.aspx

Test it!  

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

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.
 

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.

 

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

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.  

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.  

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  

http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/LOCMQ:US  

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.
 

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.
 

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Stuttgart   15.000 0,017 €  




0,024 €  15.000  41,18%  17:54:25  
 

http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/...r_post_confirmation.pdf  

http://www.law360.com/articles/642446/...ders-emerge-as-ch-11-players  

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.
 

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