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3.2KGoogleYelp: Google Hasn’t Done Enough To Highlight Rivals
While Google is making ad changes to appease European Union regulators, it isn’t enough to help its rivals, according to Yelp. Two years...
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8.5KResTechYelp Seats 22M Diners in December
For Yelp, it’s food for thought. Bloomberg reported on Tuesday (Feb. 26) that the firm, known for its reviews from users across...
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3.7KInvestmentsAs Activist Investor Calls For Sale, Yelp Hires Evercore
Yelp is preparing to fight an activist investor who is pulling for a board shake-up and a potential sale. According to CNBC, sources...
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4.9KNewsVisa, Yelp Pair On SMB Advertising
Visa and Yelp are pairing on an advertising initiative for U.S.-based small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs), eyeing increased presence on the latter’s...
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6.2KInvestmentsYelp Investors: Shape Up Or Face Proxy Fight
SQN Investors, an investment firm that owns 4 percent of Yelp, is calling on the company to follow its recommendations to grow...
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2.9KInvestmentsYelp Faces Investor Call For Board Shakeup, Review Of Operations
SQN Investors, a longtime Yelp shareholder, is gearing up to push for new board representation as the company suffers from missteps that have hurt shares...
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5.7KEarningsYelp Stock Slammed On Advertiser Losses
Yelp would seem to have an enviable place in the digital future. Take the emerging world of connected cars, where various players...
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9.1KInnovationBuick, Yelp Debut In-Dash Reservations
Buick has announced that drivers of its cars can now make on-the-go reservations at a variety of restaurants using Yelp Reservations. The...
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2.7KEarningsYelp’s Shares Zoom As Alexa Looms
Though normally the firm behind the review, today (Aug. 10) was Yelp‘s turn to solicit investor reviews as it reported its Q2...
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4.7KLegalYelp Wins Court Ruling About Negative Online Reviews
A recent California Supreme Court decision that essentially allows a negative Yelp post to stand about a lawyer could help determine how...
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10.4KPayments InnovationThe Case For Contextual Commerce
Before there was on demand, there was time shifting. In 1985, cable companies introduced consumers to the idea that they could use...
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10.6KRegulationIs GDPR EU’s Frankenstein Monster?
Two hundred years ago, the world was introduced to Dr. Victor Frankenstein. Mary Shelley’s book “Frankenstein” was published in January 1818 and...
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3.6KNewsFive At Five: Facebook Adds To Its Marketplace
Welcome to Five at Five, your late look at payments and commerce news you might have missed. Today’s stories focus on Facebook’s...
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3.5KGoogleYelp Renews Antitrust Complaint Against Google
Yelp announced that it has renewed a European antitrust complaint against Google. The online reviews company filed a similar complaint in 2014,...
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5.0KRetailGrocers Can Tap Into Price Comparison Apps
The initial inner workings of a price comparison tool called Basket began when Neil Kataria was a kid. He loved to optimize his...
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5.8KLoyalty & RewardsHow Merchants Can Tap Into Cash Back Promotions
Merchants can capitalize on word-of-mouth marketing through cash back platforms such as DOSH that encourage social media sharing. These platforms reach consumers...
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6.4KMerchant InnovationPayPal Launches Braintree Extend
The definition of the word “extend” means to stretch out or lengthen one’s reach. It turned out to be the perfect word...
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3.6KGoogleGoogle, Unshackled By FTC Agreement, Still Won’t Scrape
Google said in a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday (Dec. 27) that it will continue to allow websites...
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5.9KGoogleMississippi AG Sides With Yelp On Google Antitrust Complaint
The Mississippi attorney general has urged the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate allegations by Yelp against Google. According to news from...
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6.4KResTechPlease Wait To Be Seated. Google Will Tell You How Long.
The wait is over: Google has finally introduced a feature to help hungry searchers find out not only when a restaurant is...
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6.9KLoyalty & RewardsWhy Deals Don’t Drive Loyalty
The selling point for Cheers was never the food; it was the fact that everybody knew your name. Talking the loyalty talk...
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9.2KResTechOne Food-Ordering App To Rule Them All
Grubhub isn’t just about hungry people. It’s a hungry brand, gobbling up three different food delivery competitors in the last quarter alone:...
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5.3KToday In DataToday In Data: Yelp Boosts Commerce
Merchant review website Yelp has a unique status in the eCommerce landscape, allowing customers the opportunity to peer review their favorite — and...
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6.5KGoogleGoogle Tracker: Making Allies And Enemies
ExpensiveWall A massive malware campaign infiltrated Google Play last week, sending fraudulent text messages and charging up to 21 million people for...
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6.1KRetailYelp’s Push To Build Relevant, Rewarding Commerce
Since it was founded nearly 13 years ago, the Yelp review site has ascended to the rare place among firms where its...
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6.4KLegalYelp Says Google Is Still Scraping
Yelp, the online reviews company, is reportedly claiming that Google is going back on a promise made as part of a settlement...
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5.3KMobile Order AheadShake Shack Shakes Up Ordering, One Step At A Time
Sometimes slow and steady wins the race. While the rest of the restaurant space is racing to the mobile order ahead finish...
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7.7KMobile Order AheadNEW REPORT: How Shake Shack Is Shaking Mobile Order-Ahead
As early mobile order-add adopting restaurants are reaping the benefits of the technology, other merchants are looking to add their own mobile...
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6.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsAlipay And Yelp Partner To Give Chinese Travelers Access To Reviews
Alipay, the Chinese digital payment arm of Alibaba, announced news that it has teamed up with online review website Yelp to bring...
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5.6KDeliveryYelp’s New Curbside Service With A Smile
Convenience is the name of the game if you’re a retailer that wants to provide a seamless and quality customer experience for...
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Yelp Looking To Unload Eat24 To Grubhub For $287.5M
As of yesterday (Aug. 3), Yelp has officially announced that it will be selling Eat24 to Grubhub for price of $287.5 million...
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12.3KGoogleConfused EU Regulators Slam Google
Does anyone else find it even mildly ironic that Google was just fined $2.7 billion in the EU for dominating an area...
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3.7KRetailYelp Eat24 Teams With Marble To Deliver Food Via Robot
Yelp Eat24 is reportedly testing delivery via robot in a new partnership with Marble in select neighborhoods in San Francisco. According to...
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4.9KRetailYelp Buys Wi-Fi Marketing Company Turnstyle Analytics For $20M
Yelp, the online review company, announced Tuesday (April 4) announced it has acquired Turnstyle Analytics, a Wi-Fi marketing company helping local businesses...
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2.3KChatbotsFacebook Tests New Local Search, Discovery Features
First it was a way to connect with college friends. It then integrated the rest of the world, added business pages, welcomed...
- 3.3KPartnerships / Acquisitions
Yelp Buys Industry’s Leading Waitlist System To Expand Reservation Services
Yelp Inc. has acquired Nowait, a restaurant technology company with the industry’s leading waitlist system and seating tool, for $40 million in...
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4.9KPartnerships / AcquisitionsSquare Hopes To No Longer Indulge In Caviar
Square no longer wants to be in the food delivery business and is trying to sell Caviar. Uber made an offer that...
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4.0KeCommerceYelp’s Year Of ‘Big’
There is no arguing that online reviews aren’t important in the digital age. Depending on which figures you fancy, between 65 percent and 90 percent of...
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7.1KRetailYelp Helps Gamers With Pokémon GO
It’s not just Nintendo, kids and twenty-somethings getting in on the Pokémon GO craze. So is review website operator Yelp. On Friday (July...
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Yelp’s Internal Business Becomes Everybody’s Business
When a company fired an employee, that used to be its own business. But that was before social media. As Yelp recently...
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6.8KMobile CommerceGM Joins Ride-Hailing Market With Sidecar Buy
General Motors (GM) is gearing up to lock horns with Uber with its latest acquisition of Sidecar, a ride-hailing and delivery service...
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A Yelp A Day Keeps The Patients Away
Yelp -- it’s not just for angry reviews of your least-favorite restaurants anymore! With more and more consumers taking to the crowdsourced...
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Why Yelp’s CEO Thinks Google Has ‘Lost Its Mind’
Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman got really honest about his opinion on Google during a recent interview for an episode of the “Re/code Decode”...
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Judge Rules Yelp’s Reviews Are Legit
The age-old debate about the authenticity of Yelp reviews may finally be put to rest with Yelp’s win against its shareholders, who...
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4.6KAmazonAmazon Echo Now Linked To Yelp
The possibility of Amazon and Yelp combining forces has been bandied about for a while … and now it’s starting to bear fruit....
- Mobile Commerce
Will Facebook’s M Assistant Kill Yelp?
While humans don’t have to worry too much yet about being overtaken by robots, perhaps the same cannot be said specifically about...
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To Review Or Not To Review?
Customer reviews can be either a blessing or a headache for a retailer’s business, but they’re not going away. The most successful...
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3.2KMerchant InnovationGoogle Unlocks Its Home Services Market
Google is partnering with handymen, electricians, plumbers and other home service providers to match them up with users looking for such services...
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Yelp: Revenue Down, Chairman Out
In a slight change of pace, online review site Yelp has been collecting some reviews of its own in the wake of its...
- Merchant Innovation
Groupon Grabs OrderUp Food Delivery Service In Latest Acquisition
The ever competitive world of online food delivery has found a way to get that much more competitive. Groupon is apparently jumping...
