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Ruba
http://www.ruba.com/Last activity: 21.05.2010
Probably Closed - Reference to Listful: Wishlist for Christmas, Birthday, Shopping & More
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Overview
Location
United States, California, Palo Alto
Employees
11-50
Mentions in press and media 5
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| May 21, 2010 | Google Hires Team Behind Online Travel Guide Ruba (Updated) | According to this blog post, Google has acquired online travel guide and community Ruba. Ruba is a visual travel guide and tour review site that provides travelers with visual guides written by other travelers. The blog post is embedded bel... |
| Apr 30, 2009 | Travel site Ruba — perfect for the age of the Tweet | Ruba is (yet another) new travel web site. But it’s hoping to grow virally by encouraging users to send links to friends through the explosively popular sites Twitter and Facebook. Users can effectively notify their entire list of 400 Faceb... |
| Apr 30, 2009 | Ruba: An Online Travel Guide Where Photos Speak Louder Than Words | Travel guides are a dime a dozen on the web. But for the most part, they’re not very conducive to really exploring – it’s not much fun to click through various guides to get a feel for where you’d like to visit, because each guide is loaded... |
| Nov 18, 2008 | Mobspin: Get A Little Help From Your Friends Without Seeming Needy | For years, people have been turning to the web to ask perfect strangers for advice. But while largely anoymized services like Yahoo Answers have proven to be hugely popular, there’s something to be said for getting advice from people you ac... |
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FAQ about Ruba
What has the press written about Ruba?
Parsers VC has collected 5 articles mentioning Ruba, among them “Google Hires Team Behind Online Travel Guide Ruba (Updated)” (May 21, 2010) and “Travel site Ruba — perfect for the age of the Tweet” (Apr 30, 2009).
Is Ruba still active?
Ruba is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from May 21, 2010.