Local Matter has named a new CEO, Tom Higley, who takes the helm at the local search software company following a months-long search. Higley has a deep background in starting up technology companies. According to his LinkedIn profile, Higley was most recently CEO of Pavlov games, which “creates and distributes event-based social games.”
In addition to the …

Realestate.com.au, the powerhouse Australian real estate vertical with more unique visitors than the next 19 competitors combined, has relaunched with a new social-oriented effort that
also integrates more advanced search capabilities and personalization. The relaunch was done using a real estate-centric version of Local Matters’ local search platform.
Realestate.com.au’s dominance of the market may have made the …

Here’s a question: How long would directory publishers sit back and let new companies such as RedBeacon, AlikeList and others disrupt the leads economy for SMBs with search and socially driven features such as Twitter and Facebook? Or Google, with Place Pages? That’s a question that Local Matters and other Yellow Pages  vendors have obviously …