Yelp's Local Reviews
Company: Yelp Launched: in Beta (since late 2004) Location: San Francisco Yelp is a website that allows users to write and share reviews of local businesses. It also has social networking features...
View ArticleIntuit's Zipingo Joins Local Business Review Sites
Zipingo joins the ranks of local business review and ranking services such as Yelp, Judy’s Book (which just raised $8 million from Mobius Venture Capital, Ignition Partners and Ackerley Partners) and...
View ArticleBig Layoffs At Insider Pages
Silicon Valley based Insider Pages, one of the many user review sites that have sprung up in the last couple of years, has reportedly laid off 2/3 of their total staff recently. The news is coming from...
View ArticleInsider Pages Acquisition May Be Announced Next Week
Update: See Troubled Insider Pages Acquired By CitySearch . Insider Pages, a user generated review site for local businesses, has been acquired by a public company, according to sources close to the...
View ArticleTroubled Insider Pages Acquired By CitySearch
The Insider Pages acquisition rumors that we posted on last week were accurate – later today Citysearch, a division of InterActive Corp., will announce that they have acquired the company. The size of...
View ArticleIntuit Shuts Down Zipingo. Yelp Winning This Space Through Attrition
Zipingo, the small business review site launched by Intuit in late 2005, shut down yesterday. When it launched, Zipingo competed with a slew of other startups that were targeting local business...
View ArticleGarageSeek Rates Mechanics, But Yelp Will Kill This Category Too
It seems like every time you turn around there’s another site out there trying to help you rate this, that, or the other thing. There’s Rapleaf (people), StreetAdvisor (neighborhood), YourStreet...
View ArticleJudy's Book To Shut Down. Yelp Is The Last of The Local Review Sites Still...
We just got word from Judy’s Book founder and CEO Andy Sacks that the Seattle startup will be shutting down operations, and most of the staff of twelve was let go today. The company had raised a total...
View ArticleYelp Raises $15 Million Fourth Round, Rumored Valuation $200 Million
Yelp, the popular local review site, will soon announce a new $15 million dollar round of financing led by DAG Ventures. The valuation is rumored to be in the $200 million range. Yelp says that they...
View ArticleCitysearch Recasts Itself As CityGrid Media
Ever since the launch of his CityGrid local advertising network at the beginning of the year, Citysearch CEO Jay Herratti has been putting most of his efforts into building out CityGrid as the largest...
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Yelp's Local Reviews
Company: Yelp Launched: in Beta (since late 2004) Location: San Francisco Yelp is a website that allows users to write and share reviews of local businesses. It also has social networking features...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Intuit's Zipingo Joins Local Business Review Sites
Zipingo joins the ranks of local business review and ranking services such as Yelp, Judy’s Book (which just raised $8 million from Mobius Venture Capital, Ignition Partners and Ackerley Partners) and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Big Layoffs At Insider Pages
Silicon Valley based Insider Pages, one of the many user review sites that have sprung up in the last couple of years, has reportedly laid off 2/3 of their total staff recently. The news is coming from...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Insider Pages Acquisition May Be Announced Next Week
Update: See Troubled Insider Pages Acquired By CitySearch . Insider Pages, a user generated review site for local businesses, has been acquired by a public company, according to sources close to the...
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Troubled Insider Pages Acquired By CitySearch
The Insider Pages acquisition rumors that we posted on last week were accurate – later today Citysearch, a division of InterActive Corp., will announce that they have acquired the company. The size of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Intuit Shuts Down Zipingo. Yelp Winning This Space Through Attrition
Zipingo, the small business review site launched by Intuit in late 2005, shut down yesterday. When it launched, Zipingo competed with a slew of other startups that were targeting local business...
View ArticleClik here to view.
GarageSeek Rates Mechanics, But Yelp Will Kill This Category Too
It seems like every time you turn around there’s another site out there trying to help you rate this, that, or the other thing. There’s Rapleaf (people), StreetAdvisor (neighborhood), YourStreet...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Judy's Book To Shut Down. Yelp Is The Last of The Local Review Sites Still...
We just got word from Judy’s Book founder and CEO Andy Sacks that the Seattle startup will be shutting down operations, and most of the staff of twelve was let go today. The company had raised a total...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Yelp Raises $15 Million Fourth Round, Rumored Valuation $200 Million
Yelp, the popular local review site, will soon announce a new $15 million dollar round of financing led by DAG Ventures. The valuation is rumored to be in the $200 million range. Yelp says that they...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Citysearch Recasts Itself As CityGrid Media
Ever since the launch of his CityGrid local advertising network at the beginning of the year, Citysearch CEO Jay Herratti has been putting most of his efforts into building out CityGrid as the largest...
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