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Yelp Eyes Future IPO

It’s official: Yelp has now turned away more suitors than Penelope, the long-suffering wife of Odysseus.

In December, the blogosphere reeled at the announcement that Google was stepping-up to buy restaurant-review site for a cool $500 million. Not bad for Yelp, considering it brief history as a startup, nor for Google, considering its botched [...]

February 22nd, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: finance, m&a, search, social media, startups | Leave a comment

Yelp Is Now In Play

Yelp’s board has rejected Google’s buyout offer of $500 million, citing its need to follow its fiduciary duty. This almost surely means that Yelp has received interest from another quarter.

December 21st, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: content, m&a, social media | One comment

Google To Buy Yelp for At Least $500 Million

Google, which has been on a buying spree for the past year, is in advanced talks to purchase Yelp for at least $500 million.

This is a smart move for Google in many ways. It had tried to usurp the world of local reviews earlier this year with its Place Pages– mini-sites that would [...]

December 18th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: m&a, search, social media | Leave a comment

Google Takes On Twitter With Hot Trends Integration

Google continues to launch skirmishes against anyone who would carve-out a piece of the Interwebs for itself. The latest target: Twitter.

September 29th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: e-commerce, search, social media, startups | Leave a comment

Google Places Shows How Quickly Your SEO Can Be Undone

Google launched a new product called Google Places last week, a mini-profile page for local business listings that aggregates  address, phone number, site URL, maps, directions, photos and reviews all on one page. The problem is that Google quietly began indexing these aggregator pages. The risk is that, because this content resides within [...]

September 28th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: search, social media | One comment