Tag: Yelp

Yelp Now Displays Health Inspection Scores for Restaurants in Participating Cities
Yelp has partnered with the local governments in San Francisco and New York to put health inspection score...
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Yelp Reviews Ruled Free Speech Until Proven Defamatory. Right Call?
Last month, in a case of free speech vs. business reputation, a Virginia...
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Court Orders Yelp User To Change Review. Slippery Slope?
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...
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Restaurant Plays Peeing Patrons Their Negative Yelp Reviews
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...
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Larry Page Talks To FTC, Yelp Thinks Google Does Evil Things
Google CEO Larry Page met with FTC officials in Washington on Tuesday, according to...
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Yelp Adds Restaurant Menus With User-Uploaded Photos
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...
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Yelp Sued Over “Best Of” City Recommendations
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...
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Yelp Acquires Qype, Shares Preliminary Q3 Financial Results
Yelp has acquired European reviews site Qype. Yelp has acquired all of Qype's shares, for about €18.6 million and 970,000 shares of Yelp's Clas...
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Yelp Slaps Consumer Alerts On Business Pages For Those Who Have Paid For Reviews
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...
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Foursquare to Launch New Search-Oriented Homepage
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...
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Pizza Guy Who Bear Hugged Obama Finds Support on Facebook
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...
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The Man Who Hugged Obama Has His Yelp Page Turned Into A Political Turf War
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...
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Restaurant Claims Yelp Is Deleting Their Positive Reviews
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...
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Yelp Has A New Redesign, And Here’s What It Looks Like
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...
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Yelp Stock Up On Upbeat Q2 Earnings Report
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...
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