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Dec 7
2010

ILM:10: Yelp’s Jeremy Stoppelman on Google Places, Mobile, etc.

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman, in his opening keynote at ILM:10, noted a general frustration with Google’s apparent de-emphasis of Yelp’s content, but said he sees major opportunity in mobile app access as a workaround of Google. Stoppelman showed an example of a 2007 search that showed the vast majority of results coming from Yelp. “We …continue reading »

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Jan 28
2010

Elevation Buys into Yelp

Bono and Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman As widely reported last week, Yelp has confirmed that it will receive a $25 million investment from Elevation Partners, which is widely known for the involvement of U2 frontman Bono among its seven partners. Elevation, which manages $1.9 billion, will also seek to increase its total investment to $100 …continue reading »

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