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| Oct 7, 2021 | Getting Started with Startup Studios: Founders’ Stories, Principles and Motivation | Getting Started with Startup Studios: Founders’ Stories, Principles and Motivation |
| Oct 7, 2021 | С чего начинаются стартап-студии: истории, принципы и мотивация их основателей | С чего начинаются стартап-студии: истории, принципы и мотивация их основателей |
| Jul 1, 2013 | IAC’s CityGrid, Parent Of CitySearch And Urbanspoon, Lays Off Two-Thirds Of Staff, As Local Ad Push Bites | TechCrunch has learned that CityGrid Media, the parent of local ad-based listings portals CitySearch, Urbanspoon and Insider Pages, is laying off two-thirds of its staff, or around 130 people. IAC, which owns CityGrid, confirmed the number ... |
| Jan 15, 2013 | Following OpenTable Deal, Restaurant Data Provider Locu Adds More Big-Name Partners, TripAdvisor And CitySearch | Locu, a local business data provider which extracts structured data from business websites and then makes it available via an API, is today announcing two major new partnerships, specifically for its restaurant data: CitySearch and TripAdvi... |
| Oct 10, 2012 | Shrink To Grow: Citysearch And Urbanspoon Parent Company CityGrid Lays Off 15% Of Its Employees | Online media and advertising company CityGrid, the parent company of properties like Urbanspoon, Citysearch and Insider Pages, is announcing a round of layoffs today that will affect about 15% of its workforce. The company, which is part of... |
| Mar 23, 2012 | Seamless Founder Jason Finger Joins IAC as CEO of CityGrid Media | Mr. Finger.
This morning Seamless founder Jason Finger, legend of Silicon Alley, sent an email out to friends with subject line “Back in the saddle. . .” It seems the Silicon Valley Alley vet has taken up the reins at CityGrid Media and wil... |
| Nov 1, 2010 | Citysearch Lays Off Editorial Employees, Less Than 3% Of Staff | We’ve gotten word that local online guide Citysearch has just laid off part of its editorial department in an continuing effort to reposition itself. The Citysearch business unit of IAC recently rebranded itself as CityGrid Media, which inc... |
| Oct 4, 2010 | Yelp and CityGrid demonstrate the meaning of “coopetition” | It looks like Yelp and CityGrid Media, two of the main competitors in local listings and reviews, are working together.
The partnership may not be a huge deal — Yelp is using the CityGrid network to fill any advertising inventory that the c... |
| Aug 9, 2010 | Location service GroupTabs mixes offers with check-ins to draw in new customers | The biggest promise location-based services offer for merchants is that they are going to bring in the pundits en masse. Location companies and brands have been experimenting with rewarding users with discounts and other special offers (lik... |
| Aug 9, 2010 | Location service GroupTabs mixes offers with check-ins to draw in new customers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The biggest promise location-based services offer for merchants is that they are going to bring in the pundits en masse. Location compa... |
| Jun 2, 2010 | Citysearch Recasts Itself As CityGrid Media | Ever since the launch of his CityGrid local advertising network at the beginning of the year, Citysearch CEO Jay Herratti has been putting most of his efforts into building out CityGrid as the largest network of local advertisers and local ... |
| May 13, 2010 | Social recommendation site Trusted Opinion hits 1.5M restaurants reviewed globally | Trusted Opinion, a social recommendation network for restaurants, bars, cafes, and movies, announced today that it has hit a new milestone of 1.5 million reviews worldwide from its 1 million registered members.
The site weights reviews from... |
| May 13, 2010 | Social recommendation site Trusted Opinion hits 1.5M restaurants reviewed globally | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Trusted Opinion, a social recommendation network ... |
| Mar 7, 2010 | Citysearch partners with OrangeSoda for online local advertising | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Citysearch, a directory of local stores and servi... |
| Mar 7, 2010 | Citysearch partners with OrangeSoda for online local advertising | Citysearch, a directory of local stores and services, today announced a strategic partnership and investment in OrangeSoda, an online search marketing service, to offer customers a more complete local online advertising service called CityG... |
| Jan 13, 2010 | MoVoxx Launches 'GeoSense' Location-Based Ads For SMS And Mobile Apps | When it comes to mobile advertising, smartphone ads seem to be getting the most attention (see our coverage earlier today for a good example). But there’s also a huge amount of advertising going on through SMS messages. MoVoxx is one compan... |
| Dec 6, 2009 | Twitter Rolls Out New Sign-Up API, Citysearch First to Implement [SCREENSHOTS] | According to our sources at Citysearch, Twitter is opening a new Sign-Up API.
Citysearch wrote us to say that the API will “allow local businesses to integrate their existing Twitter presence or create a new account directly from the Cityse... |
| Dec 2, 2009 | Bing Maps Beta Launches with Twitter Integration and Better Streetview | At Microsoft’s San Francisco campus this morning, a room full of tech journalists and entrepreneurs were treated to their first glimpse of Bing Maps Beta. When Microsoft first spoke about it’s efforts towards geospatial projects, many were ... |
| Nov 16, 2009 | Local business center listings | … and tips for tweaking them
In August we ran a post about getting your site listed in Google’s 10-pack. This post has been our number one read post to date, so I thought you might appreciate additional tips on tweaking your local business ... |
| Sep 9, 2009 | MerchantCircle Answers lets small businesses show off their expertise | MerchantCircle creates and manages profile pages for small businesses, and it says it has built a sizable user base and reached profitability earlier this year.. Now it’s trying to offer those businesses more ways to attract customers onlin... |
| Sep 9, 2009 | MerchantCircle Answers lets small businesses show off their expertise | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
MerchantCircle creates and manages profile pages ... |
| Aug 18, 2009 | Center'd Brings Its Local Discovery Engine To The iPhone | Center’d, the service that looks to help you figure out what to do with your day, has released a new iPhone application that lets you tap into the site’s restaurant, event, and activity recommendation engine on the go. The application is fr... |
| May 31, 2009 | Microsoft Bing's focus on decisions is smart | But it's not a Google killer Apologies for the long title, but I wanted to get one thing across before diving into my review of Microsoft's new search engine Bing. (The site was announced on Thursday at the All Things Digital conference and... |
| Apr 29, 2009 | IAC buys restaurant recommender Urbanspoon | Urbanspoon, the startup behind a popular restaurant recommendation application on the iPhone, has been acquired by web giant IAC. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch hears it was in the millions of dollars.
The Seattle ... |
| Apr 23, 2009 | MySpace Local Now Open To The Public | It may be in the process of hiring a new CEO, but the MySpace machine keeps on rolling. Last month we got our first look at MySpace Local, the joint project between Citysearch and MySpace that combines the popular social network with Cityse... |
| Mar 31, 2009 | MySpace Goes Local: Announces Partnership with Citysearch | MySpace today announced a partnership with Citysearch that will bring Citysearch’s database of local businesses to the social network’s new MySpace Local service. Users on MySpace can now review, rate, and share content about businesses on ... |
| Mar 31, 2009 | MySpace and Citysearch partner for MySpace Local | MySpace and Citysearch have partnered for the launch of a local business directory called MySpace Local. The new site lets MySpace users review, search, and share content about their favorite businesses, while leveraging Citysearch’s stockp... |
| Feb 11, 2009 | Diddit launches surprisingly addictive activity guide | The development team behind search company Inktomi is launching a new service tonight called Diddit, which functions as both an activity guide and a way to share stories and accomplishments.
Diddit is a bit like business-rating services suc... |
| Dec 10, 2008 | Citysearch Vs. Yelp On The iPhone: Can You Tell Them Apart? | Citysearch now has an iPhone app. It looks a lot like Yelp’s iPhone app, which came out two months ago looks and is currently the third most popular travel app (after Urbanspoon and Google Earth). Both tap into the iPhone’s GPS to let you f... |
| Dec 5, 2008 | Facebook Connect Goes Live | The curtain has been officially raised on Facebook Connect, a feature that links partner Web sites with the profiles of Facebook members.(Techmeme)
Everyday, Facebook looks more and more like a platform instead of just another social networ... |
| Dec 4, 2008 | Facebook Connect, Friend Connect: Your online profile follows you | Article content
Facebook has announced the widespread availability of Facebook Connect, an extension of Facebook Platform that it first announced last summer.
You’ll start seeing prompts for Facebook Connect on Web sites. Hit the prompt and... |
| Nov 19, 2008 | Yelp Throws Down On CitySearch | Local review site Yelp is not going to sit around and let competitor CitySearch have even a day to celebrate their new beta launch.
CEO Jeremy Stopellman, noticing our Comscore comparison of the services – “According to comScore, Citysearch... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | The New Citysearch Launches in Beta, Goes Hyper-Social With Facebook Connect | Citysearch is finally coming around to replacing its creaking site design with something a little more contemporary. Today, it is launching in a major rethink of its entire site in beta that drills deeper into neighborhoods, uses Facebook C... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | Revamped Citysearch brings Facebook to local listings | Citysearch, the local listings and review site owned by media conglomerate IAC, is unveiling a test version of its new site today as it tries to stay competitive with up-and-comers like Yelp, as well as the increasing amount of local inform... |
| Oct 23, 2008 | CitySquares finds funds for “hyper local” info | CitySquares Online, a website that allows users to find detailed information about their immediate neighborhoods, brought in a first round of funding from individuals Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, and Jonathan Kraft, whose Kraf... |
| Oct 16, 2008 | Yahoo Search Integrates Citysearch and Zagat – Slowly Gaining Market Share Again? | Yahoo’s SearchMonkey platform allows publishers to easily write applications that integrate structured data from their own sites into Yahoo’s search results. Most of these applications still have to be turned on explicitly by the user, but ... |
| Sep 22, 2008 | Letseat.at Makes It Easy For Restaurants to Serve Up Their Own Websites | Sometimes the same old restaurants get old and you want to find something new. It’s easy to do some research in big cities with the help of CitySearch and Yelp, and even easier to find websites for larger restaurants like The Cheesecake Fac... |
| Aug 26, 2008 | No Joke: The Onion Launches CitySearch Competitor | America’s Finest News Source has launched Decider, a local entertainment site that includes interviews, event information, and restaurant reviews. The site is initially launching with content for Chicago, with plans to support more cities o... |
| Jun 9, 2008 | Sense Networks experiments with indexing the city | In what may be a first step toward bringing some real-time intelligence to local recommendation sites like Yelp and CitySearch, a startup called Sense Networks is today unveiling a new platform, called Citysense, that it says can create a G... |
| May 27, 2008 | Citysearch Sued For Click Fraud | Los Angeles based law firm Kabateck Brown Kellner, LLP has filed a class action lawsuit against Citysearch, accusing it of promoting click fraud. The suit was filed on behalf of plaintiff Tom Lambotte, who has charged that Citysearch has fa... |
| Nov 28, 2007 | Citysearch, Merchantcircle connect their local business services | Citysearch, an online guide service about local US businesses, has partnered with MerchantCircle, in an effort to hold their own in the increasingly competitive area of local reviews.
The move comes as Citysearch is under attack from newer,... |
| Jul 2, 2007 | Down2Night, a catchall for nightlife, gets new look | Down2Night, one of many sites that help you find and plan things to do at night, has beefed up its offerings
We reviewed the Seattle-based company last February, describing its offering of text alerts about events at your favorite night spo... |
| Mar 11, 2007 | Useful local search sites, Boorah and SuggestLocal | Updated
Boorah and SuggestLocal are two new useful local search sites worth a look.
Boorah provides a clean, elegant search for restaurants by city, ranking them by the quality of reviews and other mentions they get from around the web. Sug... |
| Feb 28, 2007 | Citysearch snaps up Insider Pages in local search race | Citysearch, the division of IAC focuses on local reviews of restaurants and other services, has acquired the struggling local review start-up, Insider Pages.
The purchase (amount undisclosed) comes at a time of increasing competition in the... |
| Feb 23, 2007 | Down2Night lets you stay up with events at bars in SF | Here’s a story for SF Bay Area folks as you prepare for this weekend:
Down2Night is the latest social-networking site that lets you find out what is going on at bars and restaurants around town. You register, choose your favorite places aro... |
| Nov 30, 2006 | InterActiveCorp strives for local holy grail, with “Ask City” | InterActiveCorp is about to unload a local information and entertainment service, apparently named “Ask City,” and it’s about time.
IAC is an Internet media conglomerate headed by Barry Diller, and it plans to introduce the local site next ... |
| Oct 16, 2006 | LinkedIn Expanding Model to Service Recommendations | LinkedIn, a social networking website primarily focused on business connections has added a section to their site that allows users to recommend service providers — a yellow pages based on user referrals. From web designers to doctors, user... |
| Dec 6, 2004 | Citysearch, local company promote pay-per-call | The nascent pay-per-call ad industry gets another boost today with Citysearch’s announcement that it’s offering the service as an option for advertisers — with the technology of a new Silicon Valley company.
Less than a year old, pay-per-ca... |
| Nov 4, 2004 | Topix and Citysearch team up | The folks over at Palo Alto search engine start-up Topix.net promised more deals this fall. The latest is with Citysearch, the Los Angeles-based local search service. Citysearch will incorporate Topix local news feeds into the “guides” that... |
| Aug 29, 1998 | Cyberparty.all the time | It's Friday night--do you know where you are going to party tonight? How can you find out which clubs have the coolest raves? The most beautiful people? The hottest DJs? |
