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Yelpocaplyse Resolved: Yelp Returns After 3-Hour Lunch Break
Yelp may be down for some of you right now. We’re experiencing networking issues, but working to get back up to speed ASAP. — Yelp...
Yelp Introduces Free Restaurant Reservations
Yelp is getting deeper into transactions. One manifestation of this is restaurant reservations. In July of 2013, Yelp bought reservations...
FTC Discloses Small Business Complaints Against Yelp
Many small businesses continue to feel that Yelp is unfair or complain that Yelp salespeople are using strong-arm tactics to get them to buy...
Yelp Hires Republican DC Lobbyist For IP, Free-Speech Issues
According to “inside the beltway” publication The Hill, Yelp has hired a former Republican legislative aide as its first formal...
Yelp, Happy With iOS Mobile Reviews, Expands Feature To Android
After about two months of what you could call an iOS-only test, Yelp is now letting Android users write reviews directly from their mobile...
Confidence Crisis: 40 Percent Don’t Trust Online Reviews
Over the course of the past year, there have been a number of online review scandals. Most recently, there was a New York regulatory crackdown...
NY Attorney General Settles With 19 Companies In Fake Review Crackdown
Little by little, the fake online review industry is cracking. Today, the New York Attorney General’s office announced a settlement with...
Yelp Sues Law Firm For Faking Reviews, Firm Claims Retaliation
You’d think that lawyers would know better. According to a lawsuit filed August 20 in California Superior Court, Yelp is suing the...
Yelp CEO Initially Didn’t Like Name “Yelp,” Sounded Like “Cry For Help”
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman was interviewed by Charlie Rose earlier this month on August 15. AllThingsD, which called our attention to the...
5 Mobile Trends Marketers Need To Know About
Given that we are a little more than halfway through the year, it feels like it’s the right time to take a step back and look at some of...
Yelp Changes Course, Allows Review Writing From Mobile
Yelp has announced a pretty significant change of course: Its mobile app will now allow users to write and publish full business reviews....
Yelp: 59 Percent Of Searches Now Mobile
Earlier this afternoon, Yelp announced its second quarter earnings. Net quarterly revenue was $55 million, which represents 69 percent growth...
Google Recruiting “City Experts” To Get More Local Reviews
Google appears to be trying to create its own version of Yelp’s Elite Squad, a community of trusted high-volume review generators. A...
Yelp More Likely To Filter Extreme Reviews & New Accounts [Study]
Yelp keeps the details of its review filter algorithm secret, for obvious reasons, but a new study suggests that there are some things about the...
Yelp Platform Brings Transactions To Local Business Pages
Yelp has formally announced a new tool called Yelp Platform that turns its local business pages into a platform for consumer transactions....
Yelp Sues To Take Down Paid Review Mill
First brought to our attention by The Daily Dot, Yelp has sued to terminate and collect damages from a site called BuyOnlineReviews.net. The...
Nielsen Study Reveals 4 Out Of 5 Yelp Users Stop By Yelp Before Making Local Purchases
According to a Nielsen survey commissioned by Yelp, four out of five Yelp users visit Yelp.com before spending money, and 93 percent say that...
Yelp Advertisers Now Able To Promote Transactions Directly From Yelp Business Listings
Yelp announced a new Call to Action feature today that allows business owners to promote specific transactions directly on their Yelp business...
Following Foursquare, Yelp Adds Local Recommendations
Yelp has introduced personalized local recommendations into its “Nearby” feature. Previously, Nearby was a list of basic categories...
Yelp Offers Local Businesses New “Revenue Estimate” Tool
Today must be the day of ROI calculators. Google just introduced one for mobile, and Yelp, last night, debuted its “revenue...
