Flickr/JDLasica Yelp CEO Jeremey Stoppelman Nov. 1 (Bloomberg) — Yelp Inc., a website that lets users review businesses ranging from plumbers to pet shops, forecast fourth-quarter revenue that missed estimates as the company looks for new ways to sell advertising in older markets. Sales in the current period will be $40 million to $40.5...
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Google should be sued because of its patents — that’s what employees at the Federal Trade Commission said in a staff report, according to sources familiar with the matter. It reports that Google has violated US anti-trust laws because of its insistence that the courts help stop the sale of products it alleges infringes...
Crowd-sourced room booking site Airbnb has opened its 11th office worldwide, landing in the city of Sydney, as it readies a wave of launches throughout the Asia Pacific region, including Thailand and Indonesia. With the arrival of the Sydney office, Australia is opening up as a new market for Airbnb. Even before the official...
Residents of New York City will find some relief from the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy as telecommunications company Time Warner Cable said that it would be sending multiple vehicles to hard hit areas in Manhattan and Staten Island with mobile charging stations and free WiFi access points to help people connect with their...
For adventurous Evernote users on Macs, the beta version of Evernote 5 became available on Thursday. It’s quite different – in mostly good ways. Here’s how to install it and take it for a spin. What’s New You’ll first notice the changes in the sidebar, which, if you’re like me, is almost always the...
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how much time I spend on the Internet, and worrying that it’s too much. When I joined ReadWrite I was surprised to discover that my new colleagues are struggling with the same issue. Just last week Jon Mitchell wrote two great pieces about this: Four Days Of...
In what’s turning out to be a good earnings season for social media companies, on Thursday LinkedIn and Yelp joined Facebook and Yahoo! in reporting better-than-predicted third quarter numbers. LinkedIn reported net revenues of $252 million, and Yelp boasted $36.4 million for the period. Below are some details why both companies had such good days. ...
At SXSW in 2010, Ariel Waldman was on a panel talking about making science more open to average citizens and hackers, but soon the discussion changed course. “The discussion was that, there actually is a lot of science that’s actually open, but we’re frusterated that no one’s doing anything interesting with it.” From 2011 Hack Day:...