And memo to Andrew Mason: we still think you should look at OpenTable ( OPEN).
OpenTable then aggregates this data according to regions, and also for North America as a whole.
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OpenTable automated the restaurant reservation process by having it all in a single online system.
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Before Opentable, Jordan ran PayPal and before that, eBay North America for five years.
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The interesting part is how OpenTable technology has made it easier and more methodical.
Women also dominate sites like Opentable, the majority of bookings are overwhelmingly made by females.
In tech-savvy San Francisco, more than half of restaurant reservations are done by OpenTable.
In the original Siri iOS app, you could make OpenTable restaurant reservations using Siri.
"Our biggest obstacle with restaurateurs is technofear, " says Andy England, OpenTable's VP of marketing.
The more restaurants that use OpenTable, the more potential diners search OpenTable for reservations.
One other thing I love about OpenTable- their amazingly bold vision from day one.
The more diners on OpenTable, the more restaurants that want to join, and so on.
And other existing companies such as OpenTable, daily newspapers and travel websites have jumped into the fray.
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Those companies include Google and eBay (EBAY) and even some other interesting growth names like OpenTable (OPEN).
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OpenTable, a website, allows people to book a table without having to plead with a snooty hostess.
Also on Conway's long deal sheet are Square, OpenTable, Dropbox, Airbnb, Practice Fusion, Zappos, Zynga and Buddy Media.
Thomas Layton, former CEO of OpenTable, has been appointed executive chairman at online workplace services comapny oDesk.
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OpenTable and similar services, if not an email from the hosting party, could easily take care of that.
OpenTable restaurants want to provide you with the best possible service so that you will visit them again.
OpenTable this afternoon posted Q4 results that were slightly above Street estimates.
The burgeoning industry has also attracted established comanies including Google, Amazon, and OpenTable.
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This is just about two-thirds the revenue generated in the entire year by OpenTable through reservations at international restaurants.
OpenTable asks each user to enter an e-mail address to become a member.
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What we love about OpenTable is the barriers to entry it has created and the network effect it enjoys.
Online restaurant reservation specialist OpenTable Inc. (OPEN) is headed for a sharp gap lower on the open this morning.
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OpenTable and Foodline charge for proprietary hardware and software used in the restaurants and also get a per-head transaction surcharge.
For example, Siri could become the front end to important databases such as Yelp and OpenTable, bypassing search entirely.
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This corresponds to a 20% annual growth in the number of diners using OpenTable, to more than 250 million in 2017.
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Braintree provides online and mobile payment technology to fast-growing consumer-facing services like OpenTable, Fab.com, Airbnb, Uber, Angry Birds, and Living Social.
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