{"id":180213,"date":"2010-01-14T12:28:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T17:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/?p=58525"},"modified":"2010-01-14T12:28:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T17:28:17","slug":"citysquares-acquires-yokel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/180213","title":{"rendered":"CitySquares Acquires Yokel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"text-transform:uppercase\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/IT\/\">IT<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/deals\/\">deals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/tag\/acquisitions\/\">acquisitions<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t<strong>Wade Roush wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citysquares.com\">CitySquares Online<\/a>, a 5-year-old Boston startup that operates a network of hyperlocal online business directories, said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/citysquares.com\/corporate\/press\/pr-2010-01-12\">news release yesterday<\/a> that it has acquired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yokel.com\">Yokel.com<\/a>, another Boston startup specializing in local product search. Terms of the deal weren&#8217;t disclosed. &#8220;This deal was a &#8216;your chocolate in my peanut butter&#8217; moment for CitySquares,&#8221; said CitySquares CEO and co-founder Ben Saren in a statement. &#8220;We have always specialized in promoting local businesses to neighborhood residents. Now with the acquisition of Yokel, we are able to increase foot-traffic to merchants by driving those searching for products online to their stores.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"postFooter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/01\/14\/citysquares-acquires-yokel\/#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/reprints\/>Reprints<\/a> | Share: &nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=RT%20@Xconomy%20CitySquares%20Acquires%20Yokel%20http:\/\/xconomy.com\/?p=58525\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/twitter.gif\" alt=\"Retweet\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/01\/14\/citysquares-acquires-yokel\/&#038;t=CitySquares%20Acquires%20Yokel\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/facebook.gif\" alt=\"Facebook\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/boston\/2010\/01\/14\/citysquares-acquires-yokel\/email\/  rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/email.gif\" alt=\"Email\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/sharethis.com\/item?publisher=bfda184d-6684-4f7a-a23f-ca4ed4db9287&amp;title=CitySquares+Acquires+Yokel&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xconomy.com%2Fboston%2F2010%2F01%2F14%2Fcitysquares-acquires-yokel%2F\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xconomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/themes\/xconomy\/images\/share.gif\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t     \t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=6f22da857a6e1c82abbe149988287c88&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=6f22da857a6e1c82abbe149988287c88&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2218\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kTxJzmUPELTMZBTfJhD0rZ0qqe8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kTxJzmUPELTMZBTfJhD0rZ0qqe8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kTxJzmUPELTMZBTfJhD0rZ0qqe8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kTxJzmUPELTMZBTfJhD0rZ0qqe8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Xconomy_Full\/~4\/WqEalAQBjw4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IT, deals, acquisitions Wade Roush wrote: CitySquares Online, a 5-year-old Boston startup that operates a network of hyperlocal online business directories, said in a news release yesterday that it has acquired Yokel.com, another Boston startup specializing in local product search. Terms of the deal weren&#8217;t disclosed. &#8220;This deal was a &#8216;your chocolate in my peanut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}