Specializes in the rating of small businesses, Yelp opens this Thursday, May 6 the French site. In the view of the founder of this start-up, who expects to achieve a turnover of 50 million dollars this year. “One day, I did a search on a doctor and have received very little information: contact information, his [...]
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Google To Bid For Yelp For $500 Million
In an attempt to further its grasp on the online markets, Google has started its negotiations with the online reviews giant, Yelp. The move comes as a part of Google’s strategy to dominate the only remaining online marketing segment it doesn’t cover, the local markets. The company expects the move to promote its mobile and [...]
Dec
19
2009
19
2009
4 reasons why Google would buy Yelp
The news about Google being engaged in talks to buy website providing reviews for Local business, Yelp is getting hot. There is no official announcement from either Google or Yelp about the deal but various sources have confirmed information about the ongoing negotiation to New York Times. Market analysts view the deal as Google’s intention [...]
Dec
18
2009
18
2009
Google in talks to takeover Yelp for strengthening local business
The search giant Google is in talks with Yelp, a review site for local business. There are no details when the deal would be finalized but the news of the ongoing negotiation was first broke out by TechCrunch and later on confirmed by New York Times citing anonymous sources. Yelp was founded in 2004 with [...]