Word: citysearch
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...share information about local businesses in 25 major cities. Volunteer reviewers, or Yelpers, read and write about restaurants, stores and services. Yelp's founders say they were inspired by their frustration in trying to find good doctor recommendations online. Their idea was to improve on existing tools like Citysearch, which Yelp's founders call...
...people know the difference between a great idea and a great business model as intimately as Gross. As the founder of Idealab, the technology incubator, Gross has become a multimillionaire by funding such Internet start-ups as CitySearch, now owned by Ticketmaster, and Overture Services, the Web marketing firm that Yahoo! bought in 2003 for $1.6 billion. Idealab productions that, painfully, seemed great at the time--Petsmart.com and eToys.com- failed in two of the most dramatic flameouts in the dot-bomb collapse...
Nominated by the Boston Citysearch website for Best Sports Bar in Boston, T’s has been open almost 20 years and continues to attract college students with cheap beer, burgers and fries. Marisel C. Garrido, who has worked at the bar for five years, enjoys the pseudo-stardom the setup provides—there’s a big screen TV and the singers are on stage...
...contrast, a relative upstart with $5.4 billion in annual revenue, increasingly is focused on online commerce--and its travel portion generates 31% of revenue and 61% of operating profit. IAC also owns LendingTree, dating service Match.com local online resource CitySearch and the largely offline cash generators Ticketmaster and Home Shopping Network (HSN). Diller's strategy: use the cash from Ticketmaster and HSN to promote his online ambitions, and be there as consumers migrate from all manner of traditional services to the Web. "We fundamentally believe that more and more things are going online," Diller says. "We are experts in bringing...
...Mather-Dunster-Quincy formal was held last night in a locale selected by a professional party planner—Club Aria, a venue on Tremont Street in Boston that the Boston Citysearch website describes as evoking “the sensual opulence of a bordello...