Comments on: Qype launches in France, as local reviews space hots up

By: TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Tipped adds new features. Local reviews war continues

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:47:43 +0000

[...] Revmap, FridayCities, TrustedPlaces and Qype, with the last of those the best funded so far. Qype recently launched in France and is backed by UK investor Advent Venture Partners and Paris-based Partech International. TCUK [...]

By: TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Local UK sites now in all out war

TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Local UK sites now in all out war — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:45:04 +0000

[...] for position in the ‘local reviews’ marketplace against new younger upstarts including Welovelocal, Tipped, Trustedplaces and Qype, among others. And that’s not even to go into the mobile startups – like Rummble – interested [...]

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QYPE*Vibes » Blog Archive » Wochenrückblick #3 — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:38:31 +0000

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By: QYPE*Vibes » Blog Archive » Qype wieder auf uk.TechCrunch

QYPE*Vibes » Blog Archive » Qype wieder auf uk.TechCrunch — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 13:12:30 +0000

[...] wieder auf uk.TechCrunch 15.01.2008 von Sven Dietrich Screenshot Qype on TechCrunch UKQuelle: uk.Techcrunch.comuploaded by [...]

By: Scott Hodgkiss

Scott Hodgkiss — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:28:27 +0000

Tad confused over all these local reviews sites I know from experience there is limited money in this field unless you generate huge traffic, so where is the revenue going to come from, Contextual ads? Affiliate commission? Charging Businesses who have never heard of you?

Come on people lets have it straight, it all seems to obvious its about generating 3 billion users, achieved a low Alexa rating high Page Rank and then sit back and hope Google come knocking. Can’t see the future with these firms, but good luck to them they have a very interesting year ahead, who will survive hey until plugs are pulled??????

By: Simon Grice

Simon Grice — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:35:04 +0000

We’re discussing this space on Thursday – feel free to join us – http://www.mashupevent.com

See you there I hope.

Simon

By: Craig McGinty

Craig McGinty — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:08:55 +0000

One of the problems France faces is that while actual internet use is high, penetration of internet access is less than 50 per cent.

This group is pressing the French government to open up the internet in inner cities and the countryside:

http://www.renaissancenumerique.org/

Although they are not going to be helped if Sarko gets his way and starts taxing mobile and internet access to support the national TV channels.

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:53:38 +0000

It’ll be interesting to see how it goes in the french market. France is crying out for good local UGC sites.