Better clean up your act! Yelp to add hygiene scores to restaurant reviews

Yelp will soon add hygiene scores to reviews in several cities, emphasizing the need for dining establishments to earn high marks for cleanliness.

Why you should stop trusting online user reviews (if you haven’t already)

When you look at products online at Amazon or another site, it’s instinctual to take a glance at the star ratings by your peers. But with a new expose just posted by the New York Times about user review bribery, …

Yelp IPO by the numbers

Yelp filed for an initial public offering today. Here are some of the interesting numbers in the filing.

Net revenue for the first nine months of 2011 was $58.4 million, up 80 percent from a year earlier. About $40 million …

Review this: Yelp files for a $100M IPO

Famed review website Yelp filed for a $100 million initial public offering today, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The company has not been shy about its plans to IPO. Indeed, it even stated so at …