Reviews website Yelp buys restaurant reservation application Seatme

Sina Science and technology news Beijing time of July 19, business review website Yelp Thursday announced the acquisition of American restaurant online booking application Seatme, the transaction amount or amounted to 12.7 million U.S. dollars, including 2.2 million cash and 263,000 common shares. Seatme mainly provides web and ipad services, and operators can use the SEATME Web site to add online booking systems to their restaurant homepage and Facebook pages, and to manage the system in real time on ipad apps.　　In addition, Seatme also provides other services to restaurant operators, such as sending text messages to waiting customers after the table is ready, as well as labeling the customer's food allergy history, seating preferences, etc. One of Seatme's competitors is OpenTable, the largest American restaurant online reservation, which has worked with Yelp in June 2010 to support the Yelp reservation system.　　After Yelp acquired Seatme, or ended up working with OpenTable. "At the LeWeb Science and Technology conference in London, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stopelman (Jeremy Stoppelman) has repeatedly been asked about the cooperation between Yelp and OpenTable," commented Marks Rems Max Lemos. No wonder he didn't talk about the company's plans for the future.　　"Yelp says the Seatme team will help the company set up its own reservation system, which will be expanded to include spas, oral hospitals, beauty salons and other areas, in addition to existing restaurants and nightclubs. TechCrunch reported that Seatme had deliberately sought out buyers before being bought by Yelp. (Chen)