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  Zomato buys Urbanspoon to enter US local search market

  January 13, 2015 10:14 IST

  New Delhi: Restaurant search app Zomato has acquired US based Urbanspoon, a website and mobile application that lists information and reviews on restaurants in six countries, including the U.S. and Canada. The company has not

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  Review site Yelp battles against extortion claims

  October 13, 2014 14:19 IST

  New York: First the chefs of a small Italian restaurant got mad at online review site Yelp. Instead of trying to get better reviews, they decided to take a different approach: get terrible ones.The campaign

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  Yahoo's search engine leans on Yelp for help

  March 13, 2014 0:05 IST

  San Francisco: Yahoo is cribbing from Yelp's online reviews of local merchants to soup up its search engine.   Ratings and excerpts from Yelp's merchant reviews began to appear in Yahoo's search results on Wednesday.   Financial

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  Fake online reviews: US companies fined USD 350,000

  September 29, 2013 23:55 IST

  WASHINGTON: Fake online products reviews have been around for years, fuelled by unscrupulous marketers seeking to boost sales. But a recent crackdown by authorities in New York could be the shock needed for the online