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I love this hotel, every time I come to New York, I stay here. The location is amazing, close to everything you need. Restaurants, Time… Read More I love this hotel, every time I come to New York, I stay here. The location is amazing, close to everything you need. Restaurants, Time Square, CP, Yes the rooms are small, but who comes to NY to stay in the room?
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The Central Library in Manchester is one of the finest buildings and institutions in the city. Sat on the edge of St. Peter's Square, it almost looks straight down Oxford Road, facing towards the heart of education in the city at the University. It also happens to be a fantastic library. Architecture aside, the collection of resources here is fantastic, and it is very easy to spend an afternoon here. With a café and a fully functioning professional theatre in the basement, the library is one of the most culturally significant venues in Manchester, and has the benefit of being accessible to all for free!
I love this hotel, every time I come to New York, I stay here. The location is amazing, close to everything you need. Restaurants, Time Square, CP, Yes the rooms are small, but who comes to NY to stay in the room? I find it very comfortable and cozy. The staff is wonderful, they take care of you and they make sure you have everything you need. :-) till next time... The rooms are tiny, but the place is clean, quiet, and comfortable.
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John did the program for our wedding (in Feb 2012) and delivered a great result for a great price. He was professional, quick and affordable. The quality was high and the guests loved the… read more »
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Jennifer S. Any students out there? I need help Cat A: My math teacher used to do that if you were daydreaming. Damn thing could do damage.Google To AcquireYelp For A Half Billion Dollars
J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995), and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More
Yelp is an online source for consumer reviews that is growing at a rate of about one million unique users a month and is seen as the place to find out about businesses ranging from doctors to restaurants from people who have used the services or eaten the food. Revenue comes from advertisers looking for that consumer audience known as Yelpers who write the positive and negative reviews. The idea for the company founded in 2004 in San Francisco, Calif, began with a question faced by many people, says Luther Lowe, manager of local business outreach at Yelp: “How do you find a trustworthy doctor online if you’re moving to a new city?” That question posed by co-founders Jeremy Stoppelman and Russel Simmons has generated more than seven million consumer reviews posted online at Yelp, which has spread to dozens of cities in 35 states plus Washington, D.C.
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Loopt Into Yelp’s Territory With New Local Reviews Site
Before there was Gowalla or Foursquare, there was location-based social network Loopt. Launched in 2006, Loopt was one of the pioneers of the location-based mobile social network. And Loopt has gained a huge number of users of its mobile apps; the social network currently has 3 million mobile users, 1 million of which are on the iPhone. Compared to Foursquare and Gowalla, which have 150,000 and 50,000 users respectively, Loopt has a pretty significant user base. More recently, Loopt upgraded its mobile offerings to offer a check-in where you can also review a place and help recommend things for your friends to do, called Pulse.Yelp Walks Away From Google Deal, And Half A Billion Dollars
J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More Jeremy Stoppleman , the CEO of Yelp , has walked away from an all-but-signed deal to be acquired by Google for more than half a billion dollars . The deal was, as we wrote late last week, in the later stages of negotiation. The two companies had agreed on a price – around $550 million plus earnouts – and were working through the final details of the acquisition.
Location based social network Foursquare is the darling of the media's eye these days and appears to be growing very fast. Rumors are growing louder that Netscape co-founder Marc Andreesen's venture capital fund is about to invest in the startup and the company now reports that it sees "100,000 new users every 10 days." Is old-school local social network Yelp scared? No, says Eric Singley, Yelp's Director of Consumer and Mobile Products. Singley told us he finds Foursquare's user numbers "hard to quantify" and said "they don't blow my mind."
Yelp Says It's Not Afraid of Foursquare
Yelp Takes Up to $100 Million in New Funding
Local reviews powerhouse Yelp has announced that it’s taking a $25 million investment from Elevation Partners, who will also “seek to increase its total investment in Yelp to $100 million through a planned purchase of shares from vested employees and other eligible shareholders,” according to a statement from the company. The investment comes at a time when local is red hot, with Yelp looking to capitalize further on it by expanding its mobile presence across platforms and introducing features like “check-ins” that help lend credibility to user reviews. The company cites mobile app development as one of its uses for the new funding, and an updated Android app with check-in features is expected within the next couple weeks. Yelp says that it passed 26 million unique visitors in December, while we recently reported that the site now features more than 9 million total user reviews.Yelp Brings Location Check-in Data to Its Web Reviews
Last week, the battle for your check-ins took an interesting new turn as Yelp rolled out a set of location features for its iPhone app . Today, Yelp’s expanding the feature to include check-in information alongside user reviews on its website. With that small step, you can see exactly why check-ins are such a big deal for Yelp, and a big threat to upstarts like Foursquare and Gowalla.Yelp Adds Checkin Metrics to Business Reports
Mobile metrics will represent the user activity taking place in Yelp Mobile apps. This data could prove to be a very insightful supplemental for business users, especially given that 27% of all Yelp searches occur from within the Yelp iPhone app. The mobile metrics will help Yelp remain competitive with Foursquare’s business dashboard , which provides business owners who claim their venue with checkin analysis.On December 21 st , as we all got ready for the 2009 Holiday “unplug”, it was reported that local business rating and review information aggregator Yelp rejected a hefty $500+Million takeover offer from Google. Bold move, but why did they walk away? No one seems to be certain. Yelp’s window stickers tell a tale of building local merchant trust and a lot of grunt work by “boots on the ground”. By this I mean the literal and figurative wearing out of shoe leather for the purpose of winning over single-door business owners one by one.
Yelp Catch Anti-Google Wave?
Om’s note: I wrote this long before the rumors about Google buying Yelp for $500 million started flying around. In my post from today that breaks down the Yelp-Google deal, I explain why it is a good move for Yelpers to take the money and run. I also say that it is a good move for Google in the short term. Over the long term, value of Yelp is limited. The cold and damp December weather has taken hold here in San Francisco.