{"id":4034,"date":"2009-12-22T17:11:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T22:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:43:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:43:45","slug":"google-yelp-maybe-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/12\/22\/google-yelp-maybe-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Google &amp; Yelp, maybe not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4036\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/Google-Yelp-logos.jpeg\" alt=\"Google-Yelp logos\" width=\"83\" height=\"62\" \/>Talks have <a title=\"broken down\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/mediafile\/2009\/12\/22\/google-and-yelp-a-holiday-drama-or-farce\/\" target=\"_blank\">broken down<\/a>\u00a0after a\u00a0flurry of stories saying Google was about to buy the online local search and business-review provider Yelp in order to expand search advertising opportunities.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"N. Venkat Venkatraman\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/VenkatramanN.html\" target=\"_blank\">N. Venkat Venkatraman<\/a>, chairman of the Information Systems Department, says\u00a0a Google acquisition of Yelp could benefit both.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Yelp could play an important part to Google\u2019s social media content and different from simply highlighting Twitter or Facebook results.\u00a0 For Yelp, it is about investment for growth and finding a good strategic fit with a company with traction.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, <a href=\"mailto:venkat@bu.edu\">venkat@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talks have broken down\u00a0after a\u00a0flurry of stories saying Google was about to buy the online local search and business-review provider Yelp in order to expand search advertising opportunities.\u00a0 School of Management Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, chairman of the Information Systems Department, says\u00a0a Google acquisition of Yelp could benefit both. &#8220;Yelp could play an important part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[418,472,644,2424],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4034"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8227,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}