{"id":577514,"date":"2010-05-25T02:59:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T06:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-05-25:article\/419-yahoo-buys-indonesian-location-based-social-network-koprol"},"modified":"2010-05-25T02:59:56","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T06:59:56","slug":"yahoo-buys-indonesian-location-based-social-network-koprol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/577514","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo Buys Indonesian Location-Based Social Network Koprol"},"content":{"rendered":"

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No FourSquare deal (at least yet)—but Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO<\/a>) has purchased Koprol<\/a>, a location-based social network, which has attracted a following in Indonesia. With Koprol, users “check-in” to their current location from their phones and can then see what other users are nearby; members can also start discussions and review the establishments they are visiting. <\/p>\n

The site is currently active in about 200 cities in Indonesia—but Yahoo says in a statement<\/a> it will now expand the service to “new markets.” The company also says it will use information shared on Koprol to “make its properties and applications … more locally relevant.”<\/p>\n

The deal comes as Yahoo—which has said<\/a> for a year now that it is interested in making social networking-related acquisitions—has also been reportedly considering making a bid for U.S.-based “check-in” service FourSquare. In early April, Yahoo had been said<\/a> to be close to offering as much as $100 million for that startup, although chatter has since died down.<\/p>\n

No financial terms of the Koprol deal were released.\n<\/p>\n

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