"Best of" lists are everywhere, but the Village Voice has decided to lay claim to the "best of" phrase and is suing reviews company Yelp for use of the seemingly generic words on its website.
Guest Post Out-of-home ads, such as those on billboards, transit, and street benches, may get a lot of eyeballs, but they can't account for our preferences. Mobile can.
Looking to increase its influence and marketshare abroad, Yelp has bought Qype, its largest European competitor, for $50 million.
Business reviews company Yelp has started affixing the equivalent of a scarlet letter to the pages of vendors that try to game its review system by inappropriately garnering stellar ratings.
Yelp, a young public company with an uncertain future, has received an Apple-sized boost that could buoy its business for years to come.
Guest Post Since the owner of Big Apple Pizza in Fort Pierce, Fla., bear hugged President Obama over the weekend, he's seen his reviews spike. Today, he has more than 2,200 reviews. Last week, he had two.
Guest Post Restaurant reservations service OpenTable announced today that it has collected more than 15 million reviews since it started a little less than four years ago.
Yelp's shares were lifted more than 22 percent today, despite the fact that insiders were given their first chance to dispose of their holdings.
You know those ladies who’ve had enough injectables to turn their lips into an approximation of water park inner tubes and their foreheads into Alaskan glaciers that will never, ever melt? Well, that’s totally not what has happened to Yelp's homepage.
Business reviews site Yelp has today made a stronger second impression on Wall Street with its Q2 2012 statement, its second earnings report as a public company. The company handily beat expectations by posting $32.7 million in revenue and a …
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Since the mid-1990s, entrepreneurs have been trying to tackle the local market. Many have failed. Others, like Yelp and Groupon, have been successful selling services to small businesses, but those services are of dubious value. (Disclosure: I have puts against …
Earnings season starts this week for tech companies, and no one is expecting outstanding second-quarter results. If the reports turn out to be weaker than expected, then tech investors might run for the hills, the San Jose Mercury News reported.…
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In day one of its Google I/O developer conference yesterday, Google upped the ante with many long-term foes and entered some new spaces.
The company announced the latest version of Android, Jelly Bean. (I was hoping J would stand for …
Just a day after Facebook quietly added a feature to find your friends nearby, Apple has reportedly added similar functionality courtesy of its relationship with local business review service Yelp.
Bloomberg said this morning that documentation recently provided to Apple …
Hotshot investor Fritz Lanman has just launched a new iPhone app called Livestar that aims to upend reviews services like Yelp, Metacritic, and Rotten Tomatoes. It even takes shots at Foursquare.
Livestar’s app lets you see reviews for restaurants, movies, …
Bing and Yelp have cozied up to bring a sweet, sweet search baby into the world. Now, Bing searches will feature brief reviews and more relevant information for decision-making for all kinds of local businesses.
The new “Powered by Yelp” …
New York City-based Yext, which offers a simple way to control your business data across local search publishers, announced today it has landed an additional $27 million in a fifth round of funding.
Yext says it will use the funding …
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Have you had the feeling the quality of Groupon deals is going down? If so, you’re right. A report released this morning by Giorgos Zervas, a postdoctoral fellow of computer science at Yale University, shows that the average rating of …
Getting enough data to make local recommendations has proved tough. A restaurant reviewer writing for a local newspaper might write a hundred or so reviews a year. Zagat might cover several thousand in its printed books. Yelp provides near universal …
Yelp made $27.4 million in revenue during the first of 2012, a 66 percent jump from last year, the company reported in its first quarterly earnings call Wednesday.
Exactly two months ago Wednesday, the business-reviews site debuted on the public …
