Category: Yelp

Yelp launches in Australia

| November 30, 2011 | Comments (0)
Yelp launches in Australia

Social Recommendation website Yelp has finally launched in Australia. They are initially focusing on building up the Sydney and Melbourne markets. Yelp is one of the most successful user generated content/ review sites in the world, and are getting ready for their Initial Public Offering (IPO) in the US. Yelp has an application for iOS [...]

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Yelp to file for IPO

| November 18, 2011 | Comments (0)
Yelp to file for IPO

Local Recommendations website Yelp is looking to file for Initial Public Offering (IPO) so it can raise $100 million USD. No price per share has been determined yet, but the company is expected to have a valuation of around $1-$2 billion USD. Google offered Yelp $500 million for the site last year, which Yelp declined. [...]

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Yelp security puts Facebook user details at risk

| May 11, 2010 | Comments (0)
Yelp security puts Facebook user details at risk

Yelp, a social networking, user review, and local search engine website is one of only 3 websites so far to be eligible for Facebook’s highly controversial and anticipated Instant Personalisation feature. A security issue has come to light where a malicious site could harvest a Facebook user’s name, email, and data shared with everyone on [...]

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