Yelp is a social networking platform for online evaluation of local shops and services by consumers. According to the company’s website is more than 38 million users a month and visited houses more than 13 million individual evaluations.

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Yelp was founded in October 2004 in San Francisco. Since then, in large cities in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands created further Yelp communities. As a local online city guide, it offers users the ability to shops, restaurants, boutiques, shops, doctors and a host of other facilities of a city to be evaluated by contributions. Other tools include file sharing, forums and discussion groups.

The starting point is a personal assessment profile. Currently, in addition to the English version, there are also language versions in German, French and Dutch. Also, any business owner can set up a free account to post offers, photos and messages to customers. Yelp takes money through selling ads to local businesses, Google adwords etc. These advertisers paying their contributions can not change or rearrange.

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Twitter Logo – Twitter is a microblogging , based in San Francisco (California) , with branches in San Antonio (Texas) and Boston ( Massachusetts ) in the United States . Twitter, Inc. was originally created in California, but is under the jurisdiction of Delaware since 2007. From that Jack Dorsey created it in March 2006 and launched it in July the same year the network has gained popularity worldwide and is estimated which has more than 200 million users, generating 65 million tweets a day and handles more than 800,000 search requests daily. has been dubbed the ” SMS of Internet . “

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The network can send messages to plain text low size with a maximum of 140 characters called tweets , which are displayed in the user’s home page.Users can subscribe to the tweets of other users – this is called “forward” and subscribers are called “followers” or tweeps (‘Twitter’ + ‘ peeps ‘). By default, messages are public and can only spread showing them privately to supporters. Users can tweet from the web service from official external applications (such as for smartphones ), or by Short Message Service (SMS) available in certain countries. While the service is free, access it via SMS involves support rates fixed by the supplier of mobile telephony .

Twitter started as a research and development within Obvious , LLC, a small start-up of San Francisco in March 2006. The original name of the product wastwttr , inspired by Flickr . At first it was used internally by the developer until he officially launched the public in October of that year. The service rapidly gained adherents, and in March 2007 won the South by Southwest Web Award in the category of blog .

Jack Dorsey is the father of this web application and current Chairman of the Board of Directors of Twitter, Inc. , a company that grew out of Obvious, LLC and the success of Twitter. In early 2008, the Twitter team was composed of 18 persons, in 2009, Twitter has increased its staff by four and growing. Although Twitter was used for a short period of time advertising services like AdSense from Google , the company decided to discard the advertising revenue to increase the number of users, and funded in the meantime companies with investments of risk capital . In September 2009, Twitter announced changes to the conditions of service, leaving open the possibility of advertising on their services.

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Tumblr is a platform for microblogging that allows its users to publish text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio way tumblelog . Users can “follow” ( follow ) to other registered users and see their entries together with yours, so Tumblr can be considered a social tool . The service emphasizes ease of use and customization. Tumblr was founded by David Karp in the year 2007 . In mid- 2011 , exceeded the amount of Tumblr blogs to its competitor WordPress .

Terra Networks Logo – Terra Networks SA was a subsidiary dedicated to Internet content and Internet portals of the Telefónica Group of Spain . It was founded in 1999. In mid- 2004 , Terra Networks , at its shareholder meeting, decided to integrate all its assets and subsidiaries within the Telefónica group. In 2005 , Telefónica joined Terra Networks within the group.

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Terra was founded following the acquisition of Spanish search Olé in 1999 by Juan Villalonga , chairman of Telefónica between 1996 and 2000 , rapidly becoming a major player in the market of Internet services due to the purchase of several Latin American companies, as ZAZ ( Brazil ), Infosel ( Mexico ), GauchoNet and Where (both from Argentina ) and to the creation and launch of portals in the United States , Colombia , Chile , Peru , Honduras , Nicaragua and other countries to become the Internet leader in the market Spanish-speaking.On 17 November 1999 goes public in an Initial Public Offering of Securities ( IPO ) in both the U.S. and in Spain at an initial price of 11.81 euros output. Terra titles were released in exchange with a spectacular increase of 213.3 percent, earning him entry into the selective Ibex-35 in January 2000.

Getting the price of the Telefónica subsidiary up to € 157.65 registered on 14 February 2000 allowed the Internet operator placed among the top ten Spanish companies with market capitalization in just a staggering three months. After that period, the Internet bubble deflated and the lowest price from € 157.65 € gradually to 2.75 in October 2005 .

The Daily Telegraph Logo – The Daily Telegraph is a British newspaper founded in 1855 . Its sister publication, the Sunday Telegraph , was founded in 1961 . In 2002 , the Telegraph was the best selling British daily, with an average circulation of 920,000 copies. Should compare this figure with the 620,000 of the Times , the 230,000 of the Independent and the 400,000 of the Guardian .

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The British newspaper pioneered in offering a digital edition of newspaper, was in 1994. There is also an Australian publication of the same name. Related to the Conservative Party (Tories), popularly known com “The Torygraph”.

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StumbleUpon Logo – StumbleUpon is a commercial website that integrates a social network that allows users to exchange online pages of interest mainly using atoolbar available as an extension to the browser Firefox , Mozilla Application Suite , Internet Explorer and Google Chrome . The system automates the collection, distribution and review of web content in an intuitive way, providing the user to browse the network and locate pages of interest with a single click, after completing an initial registration where the user identifies their areas of interest and other preferences.

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On May 30, 2007 StumbleUpon was acquired by the company eBay for the amount of 75 million U.S. dollars.

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Sportingbet Logo – Sportingbet Plc is an international company dedicated to online gambling and Internet gambling, with headquarters in London and operating under licenses from the United Kingdom , Wales , Australia , Alderney , Italy and Antigua .

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The company is listed on AIM of the London Stock Exchange under the symbol SBT.Sportingbet’s main business line sports betting including virtually all sports: Soccer , Tennis , Basketball , Auto Racing ( Formula 1, Rally), Handball , Golf , Cycling , Athletics , Volleyball , Boxing , Rugby , Football, Baseball , Cricket , Horse Racing , Greyhound Racing, Billiards , Darts , etc.

Since 2004 also offers its users a casino on-line (ParadiseCasino), poker online (Paradise Poker) and different gambling interactive.

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TSA Stores Inc., also known as The Sports Authority, is a sporting goods chain that started in Florida in the late 1980’s.  It is now based out of Englewood Colorado after the company merged in 2003 with Gart Sports, Sportmart and Oshman’s.  The company was listed publicly for a number of years but due to a leveraged buyout in 2006 the company is now listed privately and no longer reports to the SEC.

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Sports Authority started a new brand in 2010 called “S.A. Elite” which has a smaller footprint and caters to higher end sports apparel and accessories.  The company has also solidified it’s brand in the Colorado region by purchasing the naming rights to the previously named Mile High Stadium where the Denver Broncos play their home games.

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TSA operates stores that are very bright, clean and bold.  Their simple, classic logo matches their company image.  It uses bright bold colors and is very distinguishable even from a long distance.  You can download the Sports Authority wallpaper below as well as see an alternative version of the logo.

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Download Pinterest Logo – Pinterest is a social network , where users can attach pictures with descriptions of collections of virtual bulletin boards. These can be stored in public or private. Not only pictures, videos of the platforms YouTube and Vimeo can spin up to a virtual Pinterest Message Board. Since our premises on Vimeo videos only people allowed to be uploaded, which have contributed significantly to the production of the same, the platform is among users as artistically ambitious as YouTube. So she makes a good complement to the Internet video service from Google . The idea behind Pinterest is the common exchange of different hobbies, interests and buying tips using virtual bulletin boards. Pinterest by a team from Palo Alto passed.

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Pinterest is available only in English. According to Alexa Internet ‘s Pinterest world number 64 of the most visited websites and at position 16 of the most visited websites in the U.S.. Here, the users of Pinterest are female for the most part.  The TIME Magazine Pinterest chose the “top 50 Websites “of 2011. Meanwhile Pinterest ranks as the source of the traffic from publishers at a similarly high level as Google or Twitter .

Ning Logo – Ning is an online platform for users to create websites social and social networks, released in October 2005. Ning was founded by Marc Andreessen and Gina Bianchini. Ning is the third startup company Andreessen (after Netscape and Opsware), and drew much of its notoriety from Andreessen’s successes with these companies. The word “Ning” is the term in Chinese for “peace” (traditional Chinese :宁, Simplified Chinese :宁, pinyin : ‘Ning’), as explained by Gina Bianchini on the company blog, and is also a Chinese surname.

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Ning hopes to compete with large social sites like MySpace or Facebook, appealing to users who want to create networks around specific interests or have limited technical skills. The unique feature of Ning is that anyone can create their own custom social network for a topic or special need, targeting specific audiences. At the time of its launch, Ning offered several simple websites developed internally or by members of a closed beta. In late September 2006, Ning was focused on providing a web site for groups, a website of photos and a video site for people who wish to copy and use them for any purpose. Later these three templates were overcome by a single template in order to custom make it more manageable by programmers who were not so simple that they out the copy of social website.

However, Ning allows developers to have some control at the source code for their social networks, providing the ability to change features and logic low level. The kernel modifications were disabled on October 21, 2008. Ning has also been used by educators in S-GI to conduct a study of a book on curricula. Many teachers are using Ning to develop educational resources. The features were customized so that participants can upload images and videos of students developing projects as well as links to blogs and Flickr.

Ning announced support for the API OpenSocial from Google which was introduced in late 2007. Developers can use OpenSocial gadgets within their networks. The website was developed with PHP and the platform itself is built in Java. In October 2008, to the chagrin of the network of artists who were previously encouraged to develop in PHP, all access to the PHP code and APIs in REST was closed permanently and abruptly without notice, making a closed Ning with extensions to support OpenSocial.

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