This week, a Virginia judge ordered a Yelp user to change a negative review. Before we get into the specifics, just think about that for a second. Do you use Yelp (or any other ser...
Online reviews have been pissing off restauranteurs for many years now, and Yelp is one of the biggest offenders. I feel their pain - I mean, some woman gets in a fight with her b...
Yelp is rolling out a new Menus feature, which compiles visual menus along with Yelp reviews and user-uploaded food pictures. These will be accessible from business pages, on the w...
If you're a Yelp user, you're probably familiar with their "Best of" feature that appears at the top of city pages. For instance, visiting Yelp's Denver page gives users a best of...
Yelp announced today that it is now showing warnings to users when they have found businesses that have paid for reviews. If you are looking at such a business on the site, you'll...
We say it a lot whenever we're talking about Foursquare - but the company that started as a simple gamified check-in app has been consistently "moving beyond the check-in" as of la...
Who would've thought that a simple hug could lead to so much online political posturing?
The last week has undoubtedly been a rollercoaster ride for Scott Van Duzer, owner of...
One of the funnier stories from last week featured President Obama visiting a local pizza shop in Fort Pierce, Florida called Big Apple Pizza. The owner, Scott Van Duzer, gave the...
Do you use Yelp? If so, you probably let it decide which restaurant you're going to visit when traveling. You don't want to eat at a potentially bad place and Yelp helps decide wha...
Most of the time, when a popular site pushes out a major redesign, it gets a large amount of backlash from users who liked the way things were. Whether users like Yelp's new design...
Yelp has released its Q2 earnings report. The company managed to beat Wall Street expectations with revenue of $32.7 million for the quarter, up 67% from the same quarter last year...