) May 12, 2009 -- DC City Blog and AllMenus.com today announced a partnership to offer visitors to Allmenus.com access to original DC City Blog reviews of restaurants in DC.

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The partnership reflects AllMenus.com mission to provide DC area residents with online access to local restaurant menus as well as the ability to order food online for takeout or delivery and DC City Blog's mission to provide area residents with premium content, produced by local writers.

) December 23, 2008 - The votes have been cast and by an overwhelming majority, I Must Eat - www.imusteat.com is the winner. I Must Eat is the most comprehensive online ordering internet restaurant dining guide out in the marketplace today.

It began at the grassroots level. It started as a small rumbling of stomachs but quickly became the number one issue of foodies across the United States. People were hungry for a nationwide online ordering restaurant dining guide and they demanded action.

) April 13, 2009 -- GoodFoodNearYou won first place in the prestigious Andrew Seybold Mobile Innovation Rally and AppWar during the 2009 CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, Nevada.

"We were thrilled to be a part of the Innovation Rally and AppWar at CTIA Wireless and are honored to receive this award from Andrew Seybold," says Nick Desai, CEO of Global Fitness Media, the company developing GoodFoodNearYou. Desai is the Founder, Chairman and former CEO of Juice Wireless, and inventor of JuiceCaster, an award winning mobile social networking service offered by AT&T, T-Mobile, Nokia and others.

) October 24, 2009 -- The idea behind The Restaurant Section is for restaurant owners to affordably market their restaurants online by creating a complete fact sheet on their business profile within The Restaurant Section. Once the profile is complete, The Restaurant Section begins to market the restaurants. Clifford Bramble, the founder of The Restaurant Section wanted to pass on his experience about marketing and publicizing a restaurant to other restaurant owners. And with the technology available, and the economy on a rebound, he feels that now is the perfect time to start.

) July 13, 2009 -- GrubHub.com, the only service that shows all the restaurants that deliver and allows users to order directly online, announced today their beta launch in Washington, D.C. GrubHub.com currently operates in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, and now the Washington, D.C./Arlington, VA area. GrubHub.com is a free service that gives access to over 8,000 menus and works with over 2,000 restaurants to provide online and phone ordering.

Who delivers to your home or office? GrubHub.com answers this question for you. Users type in their address on GrubHub.com, and the page displays every restaurant that delivers to that location, with the restaurants' menus, hours for delivery, available coupons, and reviews.

) October 31, 2008 -- In New York alone, the average price for a dozen eggs has risen over 25% since 2007 with food prices in general increasing by more than 5%. Combine that with the dismal economy, a battered Wall St and reduced incomes and it's fair to say, that New Yorkers are starting to feel the pinch. With the average price of $15.00 for a decent Manhattan lunch, New Yorkers are in need of a bailout of their own. Launching this week, Lunchtimedeals.com allows users to find lunch deals in their area and request these specials and coupons via email or text messaging.

) October 30, 2009 -- On September 3, 2009, Southlake Copeland's of New Orleans launched a new website (www.southlakecopelands.com) that was developed by i5 web works. This is the first website for the restaurant, which is located inside the Hilton in Southlake Town Square.

) May 14, 2009 -- Restaurant managers and owners can now have direct access to industry experts via live restaurant telephone support.

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Raising access to industry expertise to a new standard, Synergy Restaurant Consultants announces a package of comprehensive restaurant telephone support solutions, offering immediate, directed and in-depth assistance to Restaurant Business Operators by veteran industry experts.

) February 18, 2009 -- GoodFoodNearYou is now available to use for free on the web, Apple iPhone and iPod touch and RIM BlackBerry mobile devices. GoodFoodNearYou is an easy to use location based search to find the healthiest food at the restaurants near you. The GoodFoodNearYou free mobile applications for BlackBerry mobile devices are available to download on GoodFoodNearYou.com.

) July 24, 2009 -- Synergy Restaurant Consultants has launched a new website to help restaurants promote their value priced deals and restaurant promotions. Oh yeah, and did we mention that they're doing it for free?

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Mungo Design Ltd have been appointed to run all the SEO for Boulters Bar & Restaurant in Maidenhead leading up the opening of the restaurant in February 2009.

) May 8, 2009 -- Synergy Restaurant Consultants is excited to announce that premier restaurant designer Margee Drews will partner with the firm as Senior Associate heading up restaurant conversions, remodels and new concept design. Margee Drews has an incredible eye for turning space and restaurant design visions into reality.

Margee Drews

Channel One Networks Implements Search Engine and Video Site for Local Restaurants

JOHNS CREEK, GA CEC Search launches a start-of-the art job portal website tailored to suit the job searching needs of restaurant professionals. The site was launched on July 14th, 2006 to correspond with the first anniversary of the executive search firm's founding.

) November 10, 2008 -- Restaurant owners are facing an unprecedented crisis in cash flow. The Restaurant Performance Index as compiled by the National Restaurant Association is at its lowest point in history. The index tracks indicators such as capital expenditures, customer traffic, sales volume and labor costs and points to a deteriorating situation across all 50 states. At the same time, the restaurants are being hard hit by the on-going credit crises. Many are being locked out of access to short-term loans essential for operations.

) September 9, 2008 -- Radius Online, an interactive marketing agency specializing in local online marketing services for small businesses, today announced the launch of its new Local Online Marketing program for small businesses. The Local Online Marketing program provides small businesses with a website, local search engine optimization, local directory submission and management for $129 dollars per month.

Radius Online | Local Online Marketing for Small Business

) August 25, 2008 -- Eva Magnus, the owner of Grafica said, "I am glad to offer these additional services, as with the rising cost of food, some restaurants have been losing money by waiting to redo their menus and not passing on the increased (food) costs to their customers soon enough. My fees are reasonable, and if the restaurant updates their layout, an increase in food sales should be expected. We offer laminated menus, as well as menus with a variety of different covers to choose from...or if there are existing menu covers, updating just the inserts is an option. After I supply the artwork for the new menu, the restaurant owner has the option of having Grafica print them."

) April 3, 2009 -- NeighborhoodScout.com, the search engine of neighborhood information, reported today that the number of visitors to the site more than doubled in the last 60 days. In March the site served 228,283 unique visitors and more than 1.2 million page views, up from 111,362 visitors in January, and 166,005 in February.

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) March 30, 2009 -- When Sequoia Café wanted to offer online ordering, they turned to the fastest growing company in the industry. According to owner Frank Siegel, "BigHoller provided all of the necessary ingredients to service our needs. In addition to a free website, BigHoller has a great interface, competitive pricing, tremendous reporting capabilities a highly responsive staff and of course, multilingual and multinational capabilities." Sequoia Café is located in Beijing, China.

) May 21, 2009 -- Abaqus, Inc. today announced the availability of a new myGeoDiary Recorder for Android-powered devices, enabling individuals with Android-platform, GPS-enabled phones to record their geo-social tracks and directly upload them to the free myGeoDiary service on the web. The on-device myGeoDiary Recorder application has been specifically designed for use and branding by mobile operators to quickly and affordably provide location-based social networking services to their mobile phone customers. Towards this, Abaqus, Inc. today also announced that myGeoDiary will integrate with the GeoMob application by Orange R&D Labs and will be available on the Android Market under 'myGeoDiary for GeoMob'.

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) October 7, 2009 -- GenieKnows.com's local search platform, which displays millions of local businesses throughout the USA and Canada, today announced the launch of its Premium Listings product for local business owners, which represents an effective form of online business advertising.

"Our new 'Premium Listings' service is a major step forward as we roll out more products around our local listings at GenieKnows.com" said Barbara Manning, CEO/President.

) April 30, 2009 -- TourSpot's travel and city guide application is now available in the Apple App Store. TourSpot has created a city guide application for the iPhone with innovative features like social network integration with Facebook, live and interactive maps, mobile coupons, and live travel content.

TourSpot New York Tour

TourSpot's travel content is written by travel writers. Whenever possible, TourSpot provides links to relevant Wikipedia articles that provide its users even more information about points of interest.

) December 4, 2008 -- Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc. (www.arbys.com), a wholly owned subsidiary of Wendy's / Arby's Group, Inc. (NYSE: WEN) and one of the country's largest restaurant franchising systems, announced today that it has named Sparks Grove, Inc. (www.sparksgrove.com) its interactive agency of record (AOR).
Sparks Grove was selected following an in-depth competitive review. The agency will work with Arby's on the brand's overall digital strategy, online media and advertising, online creative development, and arbys.com web site development.

Your town has hidden gems - that hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurant or a hair dresser that knows just how to give you the style you're looking for. VillageLookup.com helps you find these businesses from restaurants to home contractors to auto mechanics. It takes a Village to provide you with all the services you need and VillageLookup is your portal to those services. (PRWeb Feb 22, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/yellow-pages/local-search/prweb2141754.htm

) July 1, 2009 -- eppraisal.com, a consumer-focused home valuation and real estate information site, today announced the launch of a new version of its Real Estate Professional Directory. This updated service gives real estate professionals one location to list their business profiles not only on eppraisal.com, but also on Google Maps, Yahoo! Local, Yellowpages.com, and 80 other search engines and local directories.

Using the advanced directory service, real estate professionals get a profile page on top-ranked eppraisal.com as well as numerous other local directories, improving their online visibility on local search engines and directories.

) October 8, 2008 -- BlogCatalog.com, a premier social network for bloggers, launched a total aggregation search engine that delivers search results from the BlogCatalog directory, member blog posts, discussion areas, blog tags, post tags, and more than 20 social networks. It is the first comprehensive search engine of its kind developed by a blogger community.

The new search engine, accessible at http://www.blogcatalog.com/search/, enables anyone to search the BlogCatalog directory of over 150,000 blogs, and multiple social networks. The robust engine was developed after the success of Social Search, another search engine that was developed as an extension of BlogCatalog's Social Dashboard.

) September 12, 2009 -- GroupExclusives.com offers collegiate, youth, amateur and association team travel planners a fun and creative way to receive cost and time saving bids direct from hotels and restaurants. With the introduction of the restaurant RFP functionality, the site now offers complete hotel and meal solutions to traveling sports teams.

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) November 12, 2008 -- Fave Media is pleased to report that its local search web site GetFave.com has rapidly become a favorite of consumers and businesses less than 6 months after its national launch in March 2008. Consumers are using the site to find the products and services they need at the local level. Businesses are using GetFave.com to raise their visibility above the clutter of major search engines with the result that consumers are finding them on the web more quickly and more frequently.

) August 18, 2009 -- Center'd, the web site that helps people plan life's activities, today announced its Center'd App is available on the App Store. The Center'd App classifies more than 1 million places so iPhone and iPod touch users can search any U.S.

A new service developed by mixing restaurant experience, Social Media Marketing and the latest in WiFi Technologies proves to be a winning combination for guests and restaurants alike. (PRWeb Aug 13, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/08/prweb2733924.htm

) July 15, 2009 -- Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, and Rhode Island are the newest additions to the ever-expanding user-reviewed dog directory. Wet Nose Guide is expanding its directory to in hopes to make life easier for dog-owners by creating a community of dog-enthusiast.

With over 3,000 dog-centric business, restaurant, boutiques, dog run parks, Wet Nose Guide plans to expand to other cities across the United States in the coming months.

Justine Watts, founder of Wet Nose Guide, said that she is excited that Wet Nose Guide is growing at such a rapid pace and that she is happy to provide a long-needed service to dog owners everywhere.

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) December 10, 2008 -- In a partnership between Leeds-based interactive development agency Branded3 and Jeanie Media, Branded3 has provided the technology to drive location- and interest-based searches for mobile-phone-based 'concierge' services.

Branded3, which specialises in bespoke applications for mobile and online, has developed a sophisticated search engine technology (patent pending) which can restrict results by region and user interest. This enables brands to maximise and refine their visibility within a pre-determined region (such as 'Leeds'), and enables consumers to filter the content they receive so that it's as timely, relevant and useful as possible.

) August 5, 2009 -- Vertex Logic Inc. announces availability of an online service called WokiDoki . Using WokiDoki, a person can interact with a restaurant, dentist office, bank and school-teacher on the same WEB page; or search the business directory provided along side. On the business side, a business can set up a business-center linked to its entry in the directory. A customer searches a business, sees its full page ad or other relevant information such as restaurant menu or promotion offer and can click on the send-message link to begin interaction. This provides a seamless transition from the directory search to collaboration.

) October 6, 2009 -- Yell today announced its Yell.com App is available on the App Store. The Yell.com App enables iPhone users to quickly and easily locate the more than two million UK local businesses available on Yell.com.

Yell.com App enables iPhone users to locate UK local businesses

iPhone users can also choose a particular area to search, or be automatically positioned in their current location using the iPhone's GPS functionality, helping them to quickly find surrounding local businesses.

Mungo Design Ltd have been appointed to run an HTML newsletter campaign for Topo Gigio restaurant, based in Soho London.

) October 7, 2008 -- Wikia, Inc. the company that brings together millions of people to create and discover engaging content on every topic, today unveiled a platform that allows anyone -- from businesses to individuals -- to create extremely relevant, high-quality search results within Wikia Search. In addition, leading publishers such as The Washington Post and Thomson Reuters as well as popular Internet destinations such as Digg, Twitter and others have made use of the platform to significantly enhance the results of specific searches on Wikia Search.

) December 10, 2008 -- After months of testing, social search engine Qitera was today opened to full public access. Qitera helps users simplify their online lives by building their own search indexes and sharing them within trusted circles. Qitera features single-click capture of the image and entire content of web pages, enabling visual and full-text search of saved information without ever needing to enter tags or descriptions. In addition, Qitera's semantic analysis automatically links user interaction data and content to enhance the search experience and deliver recommendations matching users' interests and personal preferences.

) August 24, 2009 -- This week Iflexion announced plans to expand its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) focus and offer the full cycle of services to its customers looking to move their applications into cloud. This way Iflexion plans to become a one-stop shop for those companies who strive to expand their products reach and cost-effectively grow their customer base.

Cloud computing is the today's buzz technology, with numerous reports stating that small and medium businesses aim their investment into SaaS as its integral part. With the economy in lingering recession and no money to waste it is not a bit surprising that SMBs are moving into cloud, which offers:
1. flexible subscription models,
2. lower monthly fees and total cost of ownership,
3. shifted risks,

) May 12, 2009 -- New Restaurant Start Up Corbin’s Grille Retains Synergy Restaurant Consultants Corbin's Grille a new restaurant start up has opened next to the new convention center in Layton, Utah to overwhelming reviews. “This new restaurant start up has exceeded all of our wildest expectations,” explains Jake Garn, President of Corbin’s Grille.

Dean Small, Founder and Managing Partner