Google and Yelp Acquisition?
There has been a lot of buzz in the past few days about Google potentially buying Yelp for $500 million or so, a lot of back and forth, will it happen or not. A lot of folks see Yelp as just another review site for big cities, so what’s the big deal? Well here are a few reasons why Google may be interested:
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