Lunch.com Launches Communities: Yelp meets WordPress meets Wikipedia
[SXSW] We published about Lunch.com when it launched in April 09 at Web 2.0. Lunch.com connects citizens with similar interests via the proprietary “Similarity Engine” and provides them a platform to publish and share opinions and reviews about various topics. Today, Lunch.com announced the release of “Communities on Lunch” a new feature that allows users [...]
Yelp Gets Additional $100m Investment
You may have thought that Yelp was crazy to turn down a $500 million offer from Google a while back, but the review site has gotten a nice little windfall from Elevation Partners, a private equity firm in Silicon Valley. The firm has invested a good $100 million into Yelp, and Elevation co-founder Marc Bodnick [...]
Kodak sues Apple, Google location-based iPhone search a big deal, iPhone apps lose $450M to piracy
Kodak has announced that it has filed two suits against Apple. One of the suits is alleged patent infringement on tech used for digital image previews and the second is for computer related tech. RIM is plus in the digital imaging suit. Computerworld reckons that the location-based search Google recently launched is a big deal. [...]
Parrot AR.Drone, Chomp for Apps, AT&T working on network
One of the coolest things to go with the iPhone I have seen out of CES so far is the Parrot AR.Drone. The flying toy is controlled by the iPhone via WiFi. Chomp has been revealed and the service is sort of like Yelp for iPhone apps according to The Washington Post. The service urls [...]
No Google Purchase Of Yelp
For those of you who are worried that Google will be buying by the world piece by piece, you’ll probably be happy to manufacture out that the latest news indicates that the Yelp deal is off. Word on the street is that Yelp actually walked away from a $550m offer from Google, which is certainly [...]