LISBON, Portugal, Dec. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Yelp Inc.
(NYSE: YELP), the company that connects consumers with great local
businesses, today announced the availability of Yelp Portugal
(http://www.yelp.pt). Starting today, people throughout
Portugal are able to create
accounts on Yelp.pt to share their opinions about great local
businesses. Yelp's free iPhone and Android applications will be
available as well as its free suite of business owner tools: Yelp
for Business Owners (http://biz.yelp.pt).
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"A country as distinctive and charismatic as Portugal was destined to enter the Yelp fold,
and we are excited to welcome them in -- the nation's love of Fado
suggests fatalism might be very much on trend," explains
Miriam Warren, Vice President of New
Markets. "A country where locals can surf 365 days a year, traverse
Europe's longest bridge, eat the most shellfish per person on the
planet, and use ATMs so sophisticated you can pay your income taxes
from one, will undoubtedly prove a valuable addition to the global
Yelp community."
The 24th country to develop a Yelp community is steeped in
history, one that lays claim to the longest-lived of the modern
European colonial empires that spanned almost 600 years. The
arrival of Yelp marks a new era, one that connects people to great
local businesses locally and across the world in 14 different
languages.
Lisbon will be the focus of the
initial community building efforts and Yelp will hire a local
Community Manager to be based there and lay the foundations of the
first Portuguese Yelp community. The full-featured site will be
available across the whole of Portugal however. Everyone from the 'End
of the World' in the far south of the country, to the Port
producing Norte region in the North can now share their insights on
what is good and great about their local businesses via their
Internet connected desktop or mobile device.
To learn more and see pictures of Yelp.pt and our iPhone and
Android applications, visit our Yelp Official Blog
(http://officialblog.yelp.com).
About Yelp
Yelp (NYSE: YELP) connects people with great local businesses. Yelp
was founded in San Francisco in
July 2004. Since then, Yelp
communities have taken root in major metros across the US,
Canada, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, The
Netherlands, Spain,
Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Singapore, Poland, Turkey, New
Zealand, the Czech
Republic, Brazil and
Portugal. Yelp had a monthly
average of 117 million unique visitors in Q3 2013.* By the end of
Q3 2013, Yelpers had written more than 47 million rich, local
reviews, making Yelp the leading local guide for real word-of-mouth
on everything from boutiques and mechanics to restaurants and
dentists. Yelp's mobile application was used on approximately 11.2
million unique mobile devices on a monthly average basis during Q3
2013. For more information, please visit http://www.yelp.pt or send
an email to press@yelp.pt.
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