Tag: Yelp

AI Learns to Write Convincing Fake Reviews on Yelp
Savvy netizens have learned to be a bit distrustful of online reviews. For one thing, fake reviews glowingly recommending a service or a product can be easily bought. On the other...
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Facebook Launches Recommendations to Find Local Businesses
Facebook continues to see itself as more than just a social platform for people to share posts, pictures and videos. Today, Facebook announced a Yelp like feature called Recommenda...
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Square Adds Facebook Ad, Yelp Features
Square announced some additions to its Customer Engagement offering. Customer Engagement is a suite of tools aimed at helping businesses grow sales with customers after they've lef...
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Yelp Adds Resources To Help Businesses With Their Pages
Yelp announced this week that it has some new and improved resources in its Support Center to help businesses update their business pages. Yelp's Morgan Remmers runs down the u...
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Yelp On Defensive Again, This Time Regarding Wages
Yelp is no stranger to controversy, and this time it finds itself making headlines after now former employee Talia Jane wrote a lengthy open letter to CEO Jeremy Stoppelman complai...
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Yelp Gives Businesses Social Analytics Via Sprinklr
Yelp has entered a data partnership with social media monitoring platform Sprinklr to enable businesses to monitor Yelp reviews and analyze sentiment. This is the first such partne...
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Did You Know About Yelp’s Improved Revenue Estimate Tool?
About three years ago, Yelp launched its revenue estimation tool to enable local businesses to compare their Yelp-driven business to the national average. It would multiply custome...
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Companies Pay Up For Fake Yelp Reviews
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced settlements with Machinima, Inc. and three other companies in separate investigations regarding the companies' role in posting...
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Yelp Discusses Its Local Ad Sales Efforts
Yelp released its financials for Q4 on Monday. With the company's everlasting battle to debunk...
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Yelp Earnings Out, CFO Steps Down
Yelp just released its financials for Q4 and full year 2015 with revenue of 153.7 million (up 40% year-over-year) for the quarter. Cumulative reviews grew 34% to approximately 9...
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Yelp Puts ‘Extortion Conspiracy Theory’ Back Into Spotlight
Well, the Yelp "extortion" (or lack thereof) narrative is back in the news. For years, the company has been accused by business owners of burying positive reviews when the owners d...
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2 Years After Highly-Publicized Facebook Breakup, Eat24 Page Becomes ‘Yelp Eat24’
Back in 2014, Eat24 made a lot of headlines when it publicly "broke up" with Fac...
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Yelp Shows Users View Counts For Their Reviews
Yelp announced that all users can now see how many people have viewed their reviews for the 90 days prior. This should only encourage people to post more reviews, because people lo...
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Here’s Who Small Businesses Are Voting For, According to Yelp
Yelp recently released its first annual Small Business Pulse survey finding that most small businesses expect to have a good year in 2016. The company reached out to U.S. 900 small...
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Yelp Finds Small Businesses Expecting A Good Year
Yelp has released some findings from its first annual Small Business Pulse survey, which r...
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