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37signals Job Board  4 days ago:

Yelp: MySQL DBA -

Location: San Francisco, CA URL: http://www.Click2Apply.net/x5p7dms

Yelp is looking for elite MySQL Database Administrators at the mid and senior levels who are excited about pushing the limits of MySQL on a website with over 100M+ unique users.
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VentureBeat  May 08 13 :

Morbid investment of the day: eFuneral nabs $250K to be a Yelp for funeral homes -

End-of-life planning startup eFuneral has received a $250,000 investment to help people find resources online for funeral planning including funeral home reviews, estate planning, and cemetery information.
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Search Engine Land  May 01 13 :

Yelp Reports Record Highs With $46 Million In Net Revenue For Q1 2013 -

Yelp released their first quarter 2013 earnings report today, announcing a 68 percent increase from Q1 2012 with $46 million in net revenue this quarter.
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Silicon Alley Insider  May 01 13 :

Yelp Stock Is Up 6% After Strong Guidance (YELP) -

Yelp's stock is up in after-hour trading after the company delivered a better-than-expected earnings report.
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VentureBeat  Apr 23 13 :

Yelp partners with Locu to bring menus into the 21st century -

Yelp and Locu announced a partnership that will bring restaurant menus to Yelp in real-time, along with price lists and business information.
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TechCrunch  Apr 23 13 :

Foursquare Redesigns Its Venue Pages For The Web To Capitalize On Its 50M Monthly Unique Visitors -

Foursquare recently raised another round of funding, with the announcement coming just a few days after it released its latest iOS app redesign.
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CrunchGear  Apr 14 13 :

Report: To Settle With EU Regulators, Google Proposes To Link To 3 Competitors Every Time It Links To Itself -

Google’s search results in Europe could soon look a bit different if a number of new reports about the company’s settlement with the European Union’s competition commission are correct.
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ReadWriteWeb  Apr 11 13 :

My iPhone Supports Gay Marriage. Does Yours? -

If I can recommend a great local restaurant, leave a review for future patrons, alert my followers on Twitter, update my Facebook friends on my great new find - all in a few seconds - using only Yelp and my iPhone, why can't I similarly promote those businesses whose values I support?

Why is it so easy to tell thousands of people, literally, how awful a coffee shop's service is, for example, but I can't as easily steer people away from a store whose values I deplore? 

It seems to me there should be an app - or maybe lots of apps - that make it easy for me to find, check-in, rate, review and recommend those businesses whose values align with mine.
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CrunchGear  Apr 09 13 :

Foursquare's Upcoming iOS Release Is A Pivotal Moment For The Company, As In It's “Now Or Never” -

We all know the Foursquare story quite well, the app launched at SXSW five years ago and a fair amount of people have been using it to check-in ever since.
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CrunchGear  Apr 08 13 :

Practice Fusion EMR Launches Doctors Appointment And Reviews Site Patient Fusion With 27K Physicians -

"It's absurd that people won't go to a restaurant unless they've read reviews but they won't do that for their healthcare.
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TUAW  Apr 03 13 :

TripWhat is a free travel companion for iOS -

There is a seemingly endless supply of apps that use Google Local Search and other services to get you information about where you are or where you are going.
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37signals Job Board  Feb 21 13 :

Yelp: Software Engineer - Mobile Developer -

Location: San Francisco, CA URL: http://www.Click2apply.net/38bkdyd

About the team: Our mobile team is lucky.
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Silicon Alley Insider  Feb 19 13 :

BII REPORT: How Location-Based Services Are Transforming The Mobile Industry -

The possibilities for location-based services on mobile go beyond consumer-facing apps like FourSquare and Shopkick.
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Yelp's Monthly Visitors Top 100 Million, But Profits Dip -

The site sees plenty of action--and much of it is mobile--but reports a quarterly loss.

Location-based Yelp has revealed that in January there were over 100 million visitors to its website in one month--the first time its traffic has reached this peak.
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ReadWriteWeb  Feb 06 13 :

Yelp Reports Q4 Losses As Local Gets More Crowded Than Ever -

Yelp just reported its fourth quarter earnings and things aren't looking that sunny for the stalwart local discovery site.
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CrunchGear  Feb 04 13 :

VendorStack Launches With Service Like Yelp And Quora For Enterprise Vendors -

The fertile enterprise startup field has created a space for customers seeking peer analysis of vendor offerings.
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CrunchGear  Jan 28 13 :

Twitter Acquires Mobile Crash Reporting Tool Crashlytics, Development Of The Product Will Continue “Unabated” -

Today, Crashlytics, a crash reporting tool, was acquired by Twitter. Numerous companies use Crashlytics to find out when their apps crash on consumer devices, as well as what the root cause of it was.
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Silicon Alley Insider  Jan 25 13 :

Square Loses A 'Founder,' And An Investor Loses Control Of A Board Seat (SBUX) -

Square COO Keith Rabois has resigned after running the online-payments startup through two years of hypergrowth, according to a statement he gave AllThingsD.
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Engadget  Jan 17 13 :

Yelp adding hygiene ratings to New York and San Francisco restaurant listings -

Yelp is great for sizing up unvisited eateries, and soon some users will be able to complement review results with a side of hygiene inspection ratings.
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Most Hired  Jan 09 13 :

Yelp: Software Engineer - Data Infrastructure -

Location: San Francisco, CA URL: http://www.Click2apply.net/83dbtn4

About the teams: Yelp's Search & Data Mining, Ads, and Spam Prevention teams run services that respond to hundreds of requests every second.
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