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Let’s review some of tech’s big second quarter financial stories
Now that the second-quarter “earnings season” — when all of the biggest public tech companies spill their financial guts to the public — is over, and it was filled with a lot of weird stories that seemed a little outside of the mold that we normally see. There weren’t any blockbuster product launches, huge advertising beats, wildly surprising numbers (outside… Read More
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Alipay partners with Yelp to continue its pursuit of Chinese tourist money
Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliated valued at $60 billion, is continuing to follow Chinese tourists and their wallets overseas after it inked a deal with Yelp in the U.S.. The partnership allows Alipay users — and there are over 500 million registered in China — to make payment through the service when they use Yelp for restaurant bookings. The launch initially covers… Read More
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Yelp partners with Curbside to add order pickup to its app for CVS, Pizza Hut and more
Curbside, a startup powering same-day shopping experiences for traditional brick-and-mortar retailers, including CVS, is today announcing a new partnership with Yelp that will allow consumers to shop in Yelp’s app, then pick up their items locally. Read More
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Crunch Report | Coinbase Reverses Stance on Bitcoin Cash
Coinbase reverses its stance on Bitcoin cash, Grubhub buys Eat24 for $287.5 million from Yelp and Toyota takes 5 percent stake in Mazda. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Equity podcast: Tesla rides high, Apple inches toward $1 trillion, and Redfin’s IPO surges
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-themed podcast where we walk through the numbers driving Silicon Valley each and every week. This episode, Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley and I — Alex Wilhelm — were joined by NEA partner Rick Yang to dig into the week’s earnings, IPOs, and surprise M&A. It was a packed news cycle, with so much to go… Read More
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Yelp is selling Eat24 to GrubHub for $287.5M and the stock is skyrocketing
Two huge pieces of news today from Yelp, the company that shows up first in your Google search for a restaurant: first, GrubHub is acquiring food delivery service Eat24 from the company in a big partnership for $287.5 million; second, the company reported its second-quarter earnings… and they look pretty good. Read More
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Yelp adds C-section rates and other stats for all baby delivery hospitals in California
Having a baby and want to know if your hospital is particularly C-section happy? Yelp aims to make that process a bit easier with the addition of a new maternity care rate feature. Expectant mothers have been able to get similar information about the maternity care of a particular hospital from state websites already but the information is often hard to find. Yelp, which rolled the feature… Read More
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Yelp is getting eviscerated after it toned down its expectations for the year
Yelp shares are down more than 25 percent after the company reported its first-quarter earnings report today, where it reduced its full-year guidance that it set in the previous quarter. Read More
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Marble and Yelp Eat24 start robot food delivery in San Francisco
Rules governing the use of food delivery robots remain to be seen across the US. But major food businesses are investigating the possibilities already. In the latest deal, Yelp Eat24 has begun testing delivery by robot in partnership with Marble in select San Francisco neighborhoods. TechCrunch spied Marble’s delivery robots, stickered with a Yelp Eat24 logo, earlier this month. But… Read More
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Crunch Report | Yahoo and AOL combine to become Oath
Yahoo and AOL combine under Verizon to become Oath, Yelp acquires Wi-Fi marketing company Turnstyle Analytics, Apple improves the specs of the Mac Pro and a new sentiment index aims to help founders time their fundraising. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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High school junior launches TagDat, an emoji-based local reviews app
Buffy Li was very patient when she took time off from her Spring Break to talk to me. Li, an 11th grader at Santa Cruz’s Kirby prep school, spent most of the week off coordinating the launch of her new app, TagDat. While she’s stressed about getting her ducks in a row, the app is actually the second startup she’s worked on, so she knows how it goes. As one of the founders… Read More
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Yelp acquires Wi-Fi marketing company Turnstyle Analytics for $20 million
Yelp this morning announced it has paid $20 million in cash to acquire the Wi-Fi marketing company, Turnstyle Analytics, which offers a service that allows businesses to connect with their customers over a freely provided Wi-fi network. The move, Yelp explains, is aimed at expanding the types of business marketing services Yelp already offers beyond those that are focused on customer… Read More
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The food delivery robots are coming! The food delivery robots are coming!
It’s not every day that you are wandering around your neighborhood and get a glimpse of the future. Yet there I was minding my own business when I bumped into what appeared to be a Yelp/Eat24 “delivery robot” cruising around San Francisco’s Mission District on a Friday afternoon. Read More
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For trans people in tech, it’s complicated when the industry suddenly cares
When Yelp added a way for its trans and gender non-conforming users to find safe restrooms, it felt like a mixed blessing for a community that’s used to being ignored. Over time, Yelp’s feature will provide a robust database of public bathrooms — the kind the transgender community has been building for itself for years. While just about everyone can agree that having… Read More
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Yelp is making it possible to find businesses with gender-neutral bathrooms
Yelp is rolling out the ability to see if restaurants and other businesses have gender-neutral bathrooms. In the next couple of weeks, people will also be able to search for businesses on Yelp that have gender-neutral restrooms. To be clear, gender-neutral bathrooms are single-stall bathrooms that lock and are accessible to all genders. In order for this to work, Yelp will start asking people… Read More
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Yelp launches new feature for asking and answering questions about any business
Yelp is releasing a new feature with the simple, self-explanatory name Questions and Answers. Well, mostly self-explanatory. This is distinct from Talk, a feature where Yelp users can ask an incredibly broad range of questions (as I write this, the New York page currently includes conversations about the travel time to the airport, when it’s legal to kick out a roommate and The… Read More
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Yelp’s bug bounty improves security and attracts talent
Since Yelp opened its bug bounty to the public six months ago, the company has paid out more than $17,000 to hackers who have discovered vulnerabilities in its products. But the bug bounty program doesn’t just improve security, Yelp executives say, but also helps attract security talent to join Yelp full-time. Bug bounty programs give hackers an avenue to report vulnerabilities to… Read More
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Coffee Meets Bagel extends into relationships with DateSpots.co and Mixtape
Coffee Meets Bagel, the dating app that shows you one match per day, is unveiling a few new tools to help newborn relationships flourish. These new products are web apps, built in collaboration with Yelp and Spotify. The first is called DateSpots.co and it lets people search for the perfect spot for a first date. The CMB team worked closely with Yelp engineers, following the launch of… Read More
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Crunch Report | GoPro Seriously Botches Earnings
GoPro’s earnings report is pretty bad, Yelp to lay off 4% of workforce, YouTube upgrades its comments system, Ford has ideas for last-mile tech and the Obama administration looks to create 48 national charging corridors for electric vehicles. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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