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Yelp — 'The digital age's Yellow Pages,' — tries to remain revolutionary by …

By Emily Tian, Peninsula Press An excerpt from this article is below. Read the full story on the Peninsula Press. Yelp's Chief Operating Officer, Geoff Donaker, right, spoke at Stanford Tuesday, explaining the company's place in the global market and responding to questions about companies that buy ads with Yelp. (Photo: Emily Tian, Peninsula Press)…
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Local search update for Google Maps iOS could hurt Yelp

Google has updated its outstanding Google Maps application for the iPhone with the capability to search for your contacts’ addresses and lots of easy-to-search local business data. Apple’s Maps app received a lot of criticisms after it debuted for iOS 6, but thankfully Google came along and released a standalone Maps app that blew it…
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Is Facebook Graph Search a Dud?

Recs 0 By Steve Heller More Articles March 4, 2013 Comments (0) In this video, Motley Fool contributor Steve Heller goes through the basics of Facbook (NASDAQ: FB  ) Graph Search and what that means for investors. In particular, he resists calling Graph Search a Yelp (NYSE: YELP  ) killer because it's lacking some crucial ingredients. After…