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Yelp Q3 2013 Revenue Up 68% At $61.2 Million For The Quarter
Yelp released its Q3 2013 earnings report today, posting a 68 percent growth in revenue from the third quarter of 2012, with net revenue at...
Yelp Triples The Search Filters On Its iOS App
Yelp quietly made a pretty big expansion of its search capabilities on iOS within the past week. The company’s latest iOS app update...
Yelp Outs More Businesses With Another Batch Of Paid Review Alerts
Yelp’s battle against phony reviews and unacceptable tactics to earn reviews continues today with the company posting another batch of...
The Key To Success In Local Lies In A Vertical Approach
Vertical offerings are playing an increasingly critical role, not only in attracting consumers and directing them to relevant local business...
Yelp Reports Record Highs With $46 Million In Net Revenue For Q1 2013
Yelp released their first quarter 2013 earnings report today, announcing a 68 percent increase from Q1 2012 with $46 million in net revenue this...
Yelp Adds Restaurant Menus (And Images)
Following on the heels of Foursquare, YP and a few others in the local segment Yelp is adding restaurant menu information and pricing. With the...
Yelp Buys Rival Qype For $50 Million To Consolidate Position In Europe
Qype was the European Yelp before Yelp was in Europe. Now Yelp has announced that it is acquiring the company for $50 million in a press release...
After Sting Operation, Yelp Outs 8 Businesses That It Caught Trying To Buy Reviews
Yelp is now showing “Consumer Alert” warning messages on the profile pages of eight businesses that it says it caught in a sting...
Restaurant Owner Slammed On Yelp For Supporting Obama
Over the weekend President Obama made a campaign stop at Big Apple Pizza in Ft. Pierce, Florida. The owner, Scott Van Duzer, is reportedly a...
Yelp Posts Q2 Revenue Gain, Claims 78 Million Users Globally
Yelp just announced second quarter revenues of $32.7 million compared with $27.4 million last quarter. This beat analyst expectations. The...
Yelp Elevated By Apple Relationship, Second Only To Google In Local Importance Now
We’re starting to see what Apple Maps will look like as well as the features it will contain, among them check-ins on Yelp. At the same...
Bing Does Local Content Deal With Yelp
Bing has done a deal with Yelp in which the latter’s reviews and content will be heavily integrated into Bing Local pages. According to...
Yelpy Insights: Yelp Adds Two New Search Filters, Looks To Add More
Is there a battle brewing in the area of searchable local content and reviews? Foursquare has been making some interesting moves in this area,...
Yelping In The Beemer: Review Site Inks Deal With BMW
Yelp is now established and mainstream enough to be included in BMW’s Online/in-car content. Yelp reviews and related content will shortly...
Search Dominates Other Sources For Local Information — Study
A new survey from Harris Interactive, sponsored by CityGrid Media, confirms what many already know: Search is the dominant way people look for...
Judge Throws Out Class Action Lawsuit Against Yelp
Yelp is off the hook, again. A judge has thrown out a class action lawsuit filed against Yelp that alleged the company tried to extort small...
Google, Yelp, Others To Appear At Antitrust Hearing Wednesday
Next week on Wednesday the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights will hold...
Yelp CEO: 50 Percent Deal Margins Unsustainable
Following the elimination of daily deals (though not check-in deals) from Facebook’s lineup of products, Yelp followed suit this week by...
How Yelp Crushed Citysearch & Yahoo Local … & Why Google Is Stealing Yelp’s Playbook
A fascinating study published last year compares the reviews and reviewers at three local business websites: Yelp, Citysearch and Yahoo Local....
Yelp: Google Told Us “Our Way Or The Highway”
If you wanted to see Yelp reviews for a particular restaurant you could either go to Yelp.com or you could go to Google’s Place Page for...
