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| Sep 23, 2008 | Qype boosts team – competitors start to worry | After just announcing new funding, Qype, the pan-European local reviews site, is not wasting any time. It has just poached LastMinutes’ Sophie MacLaren and Emily van Lierop to be UK Marketing Director and Marketing Manager respectvely. Soph... |
| Jul 30, 2008 | Now we have Silicon Roundabout — where else are London’s existing, organic tech hubs? | It’s weird how ideas get a certain zeitgeist. Last night at around 1am I put up my idea for a tech hub – a physical cluster for startups, probably a building or a set of buildings not unlike the converted Guinness warehouses in Dublin used ... |
| May 12, 2008 | bview mashes up Yelp, Yell and Facebook to keep businesses honest | BView claims to be Yelp+Yell+Facebook for businesses and their customers. When I first heard that, I though “join the queue”. There are lots of startups trying to do this, many from different angles, including Welovelocal (since bought by G... |
| Mar 17, 2008 | WeLoveLocal sells majority stake to GCap | UK local listings and networking startup WeLoveLocal has hit a payday (of sorts) via a £450,000 majority stake taken in it by radio network GCap Media plc (GCap), itself currently subject to a takeover bid. GCap plans to combine the site wi... |
| Feb 11, 2008 | Qype gets a mini-makeover | Venture-backed pan-European reviews site Qype is having a face-lift tomorrow, along with a few other nips and tucks. New features include the ability to add videos via Youtube – something already available on competitor sites like TrustedPl... |
| Jan 22, 2008 | Local UK sites now in all out war | There’s something about ‘local’ that really gets our startup juices flowing in the UK. Maybe it’s that ‘children of Thatcher’ thing? (She was a greengrocer’s daughter). Nine-year old local search site TouchLocal has raised £7M (€9.4M) from ... |
| 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 ... |
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What has the press written about Welovelocal.com?
Parsers VC has collected 8 articles mentioning Welovelocal.com, among them “Qype boosts team – competitors start to worry” (Sep 23, 2008) and “Now we have Silicon Roundabout — where else are London’s existing, organic tech hubs?” (Jul 30, 2008).
Is Welovelocal.com still active?
Welovelocal.com is probably closed: its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 16, 2008.