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adds smbs to social crm portfolio . zdnet . sakthi prasad 10 january 2014 . us court rules against bazaarvoice s acquisition of powerreviews . reuters . fair rebecca kirk 29 august 2014 . sizing up the competition antitrust enforcement and the bazaarvoice ruling . the national law review . analysis group . retrieved 17 september 2014 . allison enright 5 june 2014 . consumer reviews platform powerreviews is back . internet retailer . anthony ha 4 june 2014 . after antitrust suit bazaarvoice sells powerreviews to review site viewpoints for 30m . techcrunch . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title powerreviews & oldid 743337036 categories companies established in 2005companies based in chicagohidden categories articles with a promotional tone from october 2016all articles with a promotional tonearticles with topics of unclear notability from october 2016all articles with topics of unclear notabilityofficial website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 9 october 2016 at 05 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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