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Articles tagged “yelp”

Online Travel

Yelp introduces menus and food porn to its website and mobile app

The added functionality is better than making users click through to restaurants’ own websites and adds another layer of community to Yelp who will rely on users for photos of menu items.

Skift | 11 years ago

Media and PR

Yelp snaps up Qype for $50 million to improve its prospects in Britain and Germany

Yelp will need to get some momentum going outside of New York and San Francisco if it hopes to fend off the growing local review threat coming out of the Googleplex.

Cornelius Rahn, Bloomberg | 12 years ago

Media and PR

Yelp is going to let users know if it thinks a business’ reviews are bogus

Public shaming of businesses that gin up reviews in their favor is a good idea for consumers, but it will likely begin another battle with merchants who accuse the listings guide of bias.

Associated Press | 12 years ago

Media and PR

Foursquare improves its local search as it takes on Yelp and Google’s Zagat

With three billion check-ins, Foursquare has a Fort Knox of data about consumers' retail habits, but a sizeable portion of its 30 million tips about places leave a lot to be desired. Foursquare will have to do a lot of partnering or get the check-in crowd into review-writing mode to improve its search results.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Media and PR

Investors like Yelp, even if it’s still a big money loser

Yelp's biggest challenges are ahead. with a mobile audience that makes up almost half of it usage and no plan to monetize those users, Yelp may even start losing money faster.

Skift | 12 years ago

Media and PR

Retailers say they’re struggling with rogue sales pitches from Yelp staff

It's difficult to say where the frustration of a struggling business ends and the unscrupulous practices of a shady salesperson begin. If any of the suits against Yelp are to gain ground they're going to need to capture the bad pitch in action.

Johanna Somers, Seattle Times | 12 years ago

Media and PR

How a half star can make a difference between a full and empty restaurant

The value in a star review by Yelp for restaurants or TripAdvisor for hotels is a make-or-break proposition for businesses. Isn't it time for someone to come up with a system that can't be gamed so easily?

Jamie Doward, The Guardian | 12 years ago

Media and PR

Despite Google’s local ambitions, Yelp is happy about itself (and so is the stock market)

When the opportunity to divest appeared, Yelp's biggest investors instead decided to hold on to their stock and signaled a a very confident endorsement of its battle with Google over the future of local information.

Michael Liedtke, Associated Press | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Microsoft’s Bing chooses partnerships over acquisitions in battle over local

Microsoft/Bing's approach to content is indeed more open than Google's, and Bing has done a great job incorporating a lot of Yelp restaurant content on Bing.com without having to acquire the company.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Microsoft’s Bing chooses partnerships over acquisitions in battle over local

Media and PR

Yelp redesigns its homepage to show more of your friends’ reviews

Yelp may have pushed up the announcement of the redesign that will be rolling out over the next few weeks in response to their stock’s 5% drop due to Google's acquisition of Frommer's on Monday.

Skift | 12 years ago