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 Yelp facts

• It develops, hosts and markets Yelp
• com and the Yelp mobile app, which publish crowd-sourced reviews about local businesses, as well as the online reservation service Yelp Reservations and online food-delivery service Eat24
• The company also trains small businesses in how to respond to reviews, hosts social events for reviewers, and provides data about businesses, including health inspection scores
• Yelp was founded in 2004 by former PayPal employees Russel Simmons and Jeremy Stoppelman
• Yelp grew quickly and raised several rounds of funding
• By 2010 it had $30 million in revenues and the website had published more than 4
• 5 million crowd-sourced reviews
• From 2009 to 2012, Yelp expanded throughout Europe and Asia
• In 2009 it entered several negotiations with Google for a potential acquisition
• Yelp became a public company in March 2012 and became profitable for the first time two years later