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| Jan 12, 2015 | Restaurant search app Zomato acquires Urbanspoon to enter the U.S. market | 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!
Zomato, a Sequoia Capital-backed restaurant searc... |
| Jan 12, 2015 | Restaurant search app Zomato acquires Urbanspoon to enter the U.S. market | Zomato, a Sequoia Capital-backed restaurant search service, is acquiring Urbanspoon from its current owner, IAC.
The two companies help people search for and discover restaurants and eateries based on search criteria such as location, food ... |
| Jan 12, 2015 | Restaurant Discovery Site Zomato Buys IAC’s Urbanspoon, Enters The U.S. | Zomato, the restaurant discovery site backed by Sequoia, has bought Urbanspoon from IAC, the latest in a string of acquisitions around the world. Terms of the deal were undisclosed, but sources tell TechCrunch it was between $50 million to ... |
| Jan 12, 2015 | Restaurant discovery service Zomato buys Urbanspoon | The deal will allow Zomato to expand to the United States, Canada and Australia for the first time
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| Jan 11, 2015 | Restaurant directory Zomato buying Urbanspoon as part of U.S. expansion | Zomato, a fast-growing restaurant directory that operates in more than 130 cities in 20 countries across the globe, has agreed to purchase Seattle-based Urbanspoon in a deal that will help cement the company’s much-anticipated expansion in ... |
| Sep 18, 2014 | Phillip Williamson – founder of Intelledox | Intelledox CEO and founder Phillip Williamson was a technology entrepreneur long before Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey glamorised the business. In the 1990s, he and Michelle Melbourne (now executive director) started a business automation ... |
| Apr 1, 2014 | Playing the CEO Card | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
When I was starting my second company, Sparkbuy, I was fortunate to meet a host of terrific technologists while shopping for a CTO. One of them was a brilliant guy named Adam ... |
| Mar 4, 2014 | 7 must-have apps to help you get the most out of SXSW | 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!
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| Mar 4, 2014 | 7 must-have apps to help you get the most out of SXSW | This sponsored post is produced in association with Life360.
So you already have the SXSW Go and Twitter apps on your phone — these absolutely necessary for navigating the week’s maze of panels and parties. But if you really want to elevate... |
| Feb 28, 2014 | Eat the Fish, Bitch | Catfish and hush puppies. Photo via Flicker user Shannon Patrick
I never quite expected my complicated relationship with catfish—of all things—to get played out at the glitziest awards show in Hollywood.
Yet this Sunday marks the 86th annua... |
| Feb 2, 2014 | Eat the Fish, Bitch | I never quite expected my complicated relationship with catfish—of all things—to get played out at the glitziest awards show in Hollywood.
Yet this Sunday marks the 86th annual Academy Awards, where Meryl Streep is highlighted with an Oscar... |
| Aug 15, 2013 | New App MyFab5 Wants To Offer Better Restaurant Recommendations By Nixing Reviews And Ratings | Restaurant discovery apps have become increasingly simple, all the better to cater to diners rendered indecisive by low blood sugar. UrbanSpoon’s signature gimmick is serving up new listings with a shake of your phone, while Dish.fm’s newes... |
| Jul 16, 2013 | Byte-sized vitriol: Internet reviews sour for restaurants | Chefs and restaurant owners are already dealing with customers’ out-of-focus shots of their masterpieces on Instagram, and mobs of bloggers tweeting and using flash photography in their dining rooms.
But in the modern world, where everyone’... |
| Jul 16, 2013 | An All-Star Game Visitor's Guide To The Mets' Home Turf | NEW YORK, NY - JULY 15: People walk outside of Citi Field during Gatorade All-Star Workout Day on... [+] July 15, 2013 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York City. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) |
| 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 ... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | Melvin Poh – founder of Volition Ventures | Melvin was born in Malaysia and educated in Perth before co-founding Volition Ventures which specialises in providing private funds to young entrepreneurs, fresh start-ups and SMEs found mainly in the collegiate networks of Australia, the U... |
| Nov 19, 2012 | Urbanspoon Partners With Livebookings And Dimmi On International Expansion; Also Launches In Ireland | Restaurant app maker and reservation management system provider Urbanspoon is today expanding its international footprint through new partnerships with online reservation services Dimmi and Livebookings. The deal will allow international di... |
| Nov 13, 2012 | Advertising Standards Authority calls out Tripadvisor and Skytrax for fake user reviews | The Advertising Standards Authority in the United Kingdom has found user review sites TripAdvisor and Skytrax have made unsubstantiated claims in their advertising.
TripAdvisor allows users to review and rate hotels, restaurants and tourism... |
| 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... |
| Jul 27, 2012 | Foodivide takes the hassle out of settling restaurant tabs | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Dining out with friends is usually a pleasant experience — until the check comes. A startup called Foodivide just released a mobile app... |
| Jun 5, 2012 | Urbanspoon Debuts Rezbook “Right Now,” Lets Diners See Real-Time Availability For Reservations & Waitlists | Urbanspoon is continuing to heat up the competition between it and competitor OpenTable with the launch of a new feature for Rezbook, its iPad-based reservation and tablet management system for restaurant owners. Today, the company is intro... |
| 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... |
| Feb 7, 2012 | Urbanspoon: Traffic Up 80% In 2011, Mobile Growth Faster Than Web | Popular restaurant app Urbanspoon is releasing new data today related to its growth over the course of 2011. The company says its traffic is up by 80%, with mobile growth outpacing the web. The site is now seeing 28 million visits per month... |
| Jan 31, 2012 | Why it’s so gosh-darned hard to find tech talent: Thoughts from 8 startup veterans | Photo: Brenda Gottsabend
You’ve heard the stories of the tight labor market, and read about some of the unusual gimmicks (and even cash bounties) companies have rolled out to attract top engineers and developers. Heck, it’s so tough to find... |
| Jan 11, 2012 | Google’s new social search: How far can you trust it? | Google’s new Search plus Your World product, announced yesterday, is making a lot of waves. The new search puts content shared by your friends in the Google+ social network higher up in search results than other content — a move that’s rais... |
| Jan 3, 2012 | ‘Menu And Hours,’ For When You’re Too Hungry To Scroll Through A Million Yelp Reviews | I’ve heard like a billion people complain about this recently so here goes: When you’re starving you don’t want to read through thousands of Yelp reviews on your phone or download a random PDF from a terrible restaurant website that’s so sl... |
| Dec 12, 2011 | Urbanspoon Adds Check-ins With New “Dineline” Feature For iPhone | Urbanspoon, the mobile restaurant recommendations and reservations application, is today adding a new feature called “Dineline,” which allows users to check-in to restaurants in order to track their dining habits. While most check-in apps a... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Jack Dorsey: “The Hardest Thing For Any Entrepreneur Is To Start” | Twitter and Square co-founder Jack Dorsey took the stage at the GigaOm Roadmap conference to talk about his experience being well, basically a jack of all trades (rimshot).
Dorsey revealed that both his own and his family’s experiences with... |
| Aug 31, 2011 | Urbanspoon nibbles on 25,000 Zagat reviews | Zagat corned the market on restaurant ratings in the 1980s and early 1990s, tapping the power of user-generated content before that term had even entered the popular lexicon. But then, the Internet came along, and review sites such as Yelp ... |
| Aug 5, 2011 | One Billion Shakes Later, Urbanspoon Goes After OpenTable | One of the all-time most popular restaurant apps on mobile is Urbanspoon (iTunes link). It is still one of the top 10 travel apps on the iPhone. The app’s signature gesture is a shake to find nearby restaurants. Urbanspoon just passed one b... |
| Jul 4, 2011 | The Way We Eat | Editors Note: Guest contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. He is based in Palo Alto and you can follow him on Twitter @semilshah.
“Where should we grab some food?” Perh... |
| Jun 28, 2011 | Tech moves: Conrad Saam joins Urbanspoon; Monica Guzman leaves Intersect; and more | Saam
We’ve been tracking some key hires and people on the move in the Seattle tech industry in recent days. Here are a few…
Conrad Saam has left Avvo to take on the role of vice president of marketing at Urbanspoon, the Seattle online resta... |
| 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... |
| Sep 27, 2010 | Hungry? The State of Food Recommendation Engines | Where should we eat lunch? What should we have for dinner tonight? Recommendation engines try to match our tastes to music, movies and books – why not help us answer these other eternal questions? Here are a few sites that try to do just th... |
| Apr 27, 2010 | The Taste Of The iPad. UrbanSpoon Makes Its HD Debut | Before there was even an App Store, I knew there was something to UrbanSpoon. Several million downloads and a sale to IAC later, I can safely say I was right. Now the team behind it is trying to capture the magic all over again with its new... |
| Mar 23, 2010 | Urbanspoon: Half A Billion Shakes And Counting | There’s no denying it. People love to shake their iPhones . It’s almost as if they want to see how much they can shake it before it breaks. But shaking it is half the fun, especially when apps take advantage of the built-in accelerometer to... |
| Jan 29, 2010 | Citysearch Unleashes CityGrid, A Massive Local Advertising And Content Network | The momentum around local online advertising is growing, especially with the expansion of the Web to mobile devices and flowering of Geo-mobile apps which need a way to make money. Today, Citysearch is throwing its hat into the local advert... |
| Jan 18, 2010 | Making use of GPS equipped smartphones | Since Global Positioning System (GPS) equipped smartphones arrived on the market, we’re seeing all kinds of location based phone applications springing up. Recently I’ve been playing with two of these services – Foursquare and Urban Spoon t... |
| Dec 7, 2009 | UK mobile social network Rummble extends to Windows Phone | Today, UK location-based networking company Rummble announced it’s launching a version of its real-time, personalized recommendations application for Windows Phone, in addition to Android and iPhone applications.
Rummble is now available on... |
| Dec 7, 2009 | UK mobile social network Rummble extends to Windows Phone | 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!
Today, UK location-based networking company Rummb... |
| Nov 10, 2009 | Urbanspoon Expands To The Urban Workforce With A BlackBerry App | In major metropolitan areas, the BlackBerry at lunchtime is a force to be reckoned with. And now it can be a device to help those urbanities actually find a place to eat with the launch of Urbanspoon for BlackBerry.
Urbanspoon has been one ... |
| Oct 14, 2009 | The flood starts: Layar, Urbanspoon bring augmented reality to iPhone | 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!
Two big entrants in the world of augmented realit... |
| Oct 14, 2009 | The flood starts: Layar, Urbanspoon bring augmented reality to iPhone | Two big entrants in the world of augmented reality today brought their apps to the iPhone today.
Both Layar, one of Europe’s pioneers in augmented reality browsing, and the popular restaurant-finding app Urbanspoon are using the technology ... |
| Aug 27, 2009 | How restaurants can use social media | Restaurants need to embrace social media
Various trades and industries are using social media for marketing, creating brand awareness, reputation monitoring and consumer engagement. The restaurant industry is no different. By definition res... |
| Aug 7, 2009 | Urbanspoon Is Now Taking Online Reservations: Takes on OpenTable | Urbanspoon is getting ready to take on OpenTable, the popular and publicly traded restaurant reservation service. Urbanspoon just started a pilot program with four restaurants in Seattle. Chances are that the company will then slowly expand... |
| Jul 10, 2009 | A Yotta Insights on Making Money in Mobile, from Dan Shapiro of Ontela | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
While a lot of people were out enjoying the sunset and discussion at Seattle’s Olympic Sculpture Park last night—see TechFlash and TechCrunch for a nice recap of the Naked Tru... |
| Jul 9, 2009 | The Naked Truth 2009 Slides: Show Me The Money | Taking place tonight in Seattle is The Naked Truth 2009, a Redfin-hosted conference to give entrepreneurs advice. Michael is there participating as an expert to discuss industry trends. This year’s topic is revenue models for consumer Inter... |
| Jul 5, 2009 | The Naked Truth | This Thursday night in Seattle I am going to participate in a fun event organized by Seattle entrepreneurs called The Naked Truth. The name is misleading because everyone is coming fully clothed and since there will be bloggers like me and ... |
| Apr 29, 2009 | IAC Buys UrbanSpoon Based On Good Recommendations | UrbanSpoon, a restaurant recommendation service, started out with a simple plan. It was three former Jobster employees, Ethan Lowry, Adam Doppelt and Patrick O’Donnell who set out to see if they could build a company in today’s world withou... |
| 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 ... |
| Mar 19, 2009 | Kontagent brings analytics to Facebook Connect for the iPhone | Another piece of the Facebook developer ecosystem has arrived on the iPhone: Advanced analytics software made by Kontagent. Facebook developers moving to the iPhone, as well as existing iPhone developers, can now get the benefit of the comp... |
| Mar 17, 2009 | Google advertising appearing in iPhone applications? [confirmed] | Google wants its ad engine to serve up ads everywhere — and today we’re seeing some on iPhone applications. Specifically on restaurant review app Urbanspoon. We’re also hearing that they’re appearing in another application, Backgrounds.
[Up... |
| Dec 5, 2008 | An Interview with Ethan Lowry of Urbanspoon | With iPhone app downloads having just blown through the 300 million mark, we jumped at the opportunity to talk to Ethan Lowry. As a founding member of the trio behind Urbanspoon, one of the most downloaded iPhone applications of 2008 , Etha... |
| Dec 4, 2008 | Urbanspoon Unveils Restaurant Sites in All U.S. Cities; Co-Founder Ethan Lowry Talks Strategy | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
I didn’t think it was possible for a popular website like Urbanspoon to fly below the radar. But it has—at least for the past week. The two-year old Seattle startup, which pro... |
| Nov 4, 2008 | New iPhone ad pimps Urbanspoon, solves life’s dilemmas | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Sep 24, 2007 | Urbanspoon: Restaurant Reviews Coming To A City Near You | Urbanspoon is a small Seattle startup that wants to help you find the perfect restaurant. Their goal: compete head on with Yelp and other user review sites, specifically around restaurants.
But they are approaching the market in a different... |
| Zomato Enters US By Acquiring Urbanspoon For Over $60 Mn | New Delhi based online restaurant directory Zomato has entered into an agreement of purchasing Seattle based-Urbanspoon. As a result of the deal which is speculated to be around $60 Mn, Urbanspoon CEO Keela Robinson will step down from her ... |
