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| 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 13, 2010 | AOL relaunches City's Best | Web users can go online and vote for their favorite businesses until Nov. 30
AOL announced Wednesday that it is re-launching its City’s Best guide, a Yelp-like directory of reviews and tidbits on local bars, restaurants, and other stops. Or... |
| May 4, 2010 | Finding the Right Doctor Made Easier: Insider Pages Launches Doctor Finder | Insider Pages, which was acquired by CitySearch in 2007, just announced the launch of its new Doctor Finder tool. While there are already a few doctor review sites available on the Internet, most people in the U.S. still mostly base their c... |
| May 4, 2010 | Insider Pages’s new Doctor Finder lets patients review medical specialists | At some point you have to find and go to a doctor. Right now you can look for doctors online, but often you get no insight into the doctor’s practice or their personality. Insider Pages, a place people go to post and read reviews on local b... |
| May 4, 2010 | Insider Pages’s new Doctor Finder lets patients review medical specialists | 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!
At some point you have to find and go to a doctor... |
| Aug 7, 2009 | Geek Weekend: Ann Arbor, Michigan | If you’re craving city life or a university setting, Ann Arbor, Michigan is the place to be. Ann Arbor is the seventh largest city in the state of Michigan, with a population of 114,386, of which more than 30% are college or university stud... |
| Feb 26, 2008 | Yelp Raises $15 Million Fourth Round, Rumored Valuation $200 Million | Yelp, the popular local review site, will soon announce a new $15 million dollar round of financing led by DAG Ventures. The valuation is rumored to be in the $200 million range. Yelp says that they will be using the money to expand geograp... |
| Oct 25, 2007 | Is Rummble the next phase in local reviews? | Chuck a stone into the UK startup scene at the moment and the chances of you hitting an entrepreneur peddling a site which allows people to share and rate things – anything in fact – in a local area, are pretty damn high. Let’s look at one ... |
| 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 28, 2007 | Will Outside.in nail the community Web site? Maybe | Updated with full list of names of angel investors
How do you build the perfect local community Web site — with news, events, comments and more?
If you manage to, it will be a grand slam. It becomes the talk of the town, people spend more t... |
| Feb 23, 2007 | Roundup: Feed reader showdown, Insiderpages & more | Here’s the latest action:
Newsgator looking for cash — Dan Primack points to a list of 23 companies looking for cash, and one of them is Newsgator. The companies presented at the VC in the Rockies conference in Colorado. We point out Newsga... |
| Feb 22, 2007 | Insider Pages Acquisition May Be Announced Next Week | Update: See Troubled Insider Pages Acquired By CitySearch
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Insider Pages, a user generated review site for local businesses, has been acquired by a public company, according to sources close to the deal. I also spoke with Insider Pages’ VP... |
| Jan 10, 2007 | Tech shakeout continued: Friendster, Backfence, Insider Pages, Orb updates | Despite fallout at social networking and other Web 2.0 companies lately, its clear that the problem isn’t lack of opportunity. Many companies still see strong growth ahead.
Check out social networking veteran Friendster.
The company lost $4... |
| Jan 10, 2007 | Web 2.0 shakeout continued: What’s up at Insider Pages, Backfence, Meebo, others? | (Updated, rumor that Backfence is shutting down is wrong, see fresh post here)
Roelof Botha is one of the hotter venture capitalists these days. The Sequoia Capital venture capitalist led that firm’s investment into video-sharing site YouTu... |
| Jan 9, 2007 | Judy's Book: Avoiding the DeadPool | Judy’s Book and Insider Pages are two companies that launched at roughly the same time, raise roughly the same amount of venture capital, and had very similar products. They also face fairly intense competition from a number of similar serv... |
| Jan 7, 2007 | Big Layoffs At Insider Pages | Silicon Valley based Insider Pages, one of the many user review sites that have sprung up in the last couple of years, has reportedly laid off 2/3 of their total staff recently. The news is coming from companies that are interviewing former... |
| 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... |
| Oct 9, 2006 | Smalltown, the hyperlocal Web site, worth a look | Updated
New start-up Smalltown is going after the local business listings market with an ambitious, focused social network model. It has a charming “smalltown” feel, and seeks to build a community of users around those listings. This compan... |
| Oct 4, 2006 | Local review site Yelp raises $10 million from Benchmark | Yelp, the Web site offering user-generated reviews of bars, restaurants and other places, has raised $10 million in venture capital from Benchmark Capital.
We recently mentioned Yelp’s wave-making with its parties.
Yelp, like other recent I... |
| Mar 27, 2006 | Monday catchup in Silicon Valley: Platial, Kavam, Insider Pages raise $$ | SF-Google (credit)
No dirt on SF-Google relationship — You’ve probably seen the story about all the ties between San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Google co-founders, including the Switzerland trips together on their private jet and ... |
| Nov 27, 2005 | Intuit's Zipingo Joins Local Business Review Sites | Zipingo joins the ranks of local business review and ranking services such as Yelp, Judy’s Book (which just raised $8 million from Mobius Venture Capital, Ignition Partners and Ackerley Partners) and idealab’s Insider Pages.
Like the other ... |
| Oct 12, 2005 | Yelp's Local Reviews | Company: Yelp
Launched: in Beta (since late 2004)
Location: San Francisco
Yelp is a website that allows users to write and share reviews of local businesses. It also has social networking features (adding friends, groups, etc.) to share rev... |
| Apr 25, 2005 | NiftyGuy: reviews of the people, by the people | For years now, we’ve been using a great advice and recommendations Web site/e-mail newsletter called Berkeley Parents Network. Hosted by Cal Berkeley, the service relies on the notion that parents have great advice and tips to share with fe... |