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Yelp, Yahoo Stocks Up On Reported Local-Search Deal

Business-reviews company Yelp (YELP) reportedly is teaming with Yahoo (YHOO) to boost local data in Yahoo search results, news that sent Yelp stock to a record high Monday. Yelp stock was up 3.5% in midday trading in the stock market today, near 92.50. Earlier, shares rose as much as 8.4%, to 96.96. Yahoo stock was up 1% in midday trading Monday, near 37.50. A Yelp representative declined to comment. Yahoo did not immediately respond to a request

Yahoo CEO Mayer Still Seeking Ad Growth; Stock Falls

CEO Marissa Mayer closed out her first full-year at Yahoo’s (YHOO) helm without sparking sales growth, sending the stock down Wednesday despite Mayer’s vow to focus on revenue growth in 2014. Mayer told analysts on the company’s earnings Webcast late Tuesday that mobile monthly Yahoo users had risen to more than 400 million at the close of Q4, up from 390 million three months earlier. Still, Q4 revenue excluding what Yahoo pays to other websites

Facebook Per-Visit Sales Growth Lags Twitter, Tumblr

Facebook (FB) collects a social-industry leading $1.22 in revenue each time a user logs on, but growth at Twitter (TWTR), Tumblr and Pinterest outpaced Facebook in Q4. Facebook’s per-visit revenue climbed 72% in Q4 to $1.22 from 71 cents in the year-earlier quarter, according to data published by Adobe on Monday. But Yahoo (YHOO)-owned blogging site Tumblr is quickly catching up to Facebook. Tumblr’s revenue per visit jumped 340% to $1.10,