Yelp

Yelp’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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Legal

Yelp 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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Mobile Order Ahead

Shake 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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Mobile Order Ahead

NEW 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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Alipay 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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Delivery

Yelp’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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Google

Confused 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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Yelp 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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Yelp 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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Chatbots

Facebook 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...

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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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Square 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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eCommerce

Yelp’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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Yelp 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...

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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GM 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...

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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Amazon

Amazon 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....

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...

Controversial

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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Merchant Innovation

Google 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...

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...

853

Yelp Sale Comes To A Screeching Halt

Earlier this year consumer review site Yelp was reportedly exploring a sale as it continued to struggle with sluggish user and advertiser...

International

How Much Is Google Messing With Search Results?

How much is Google messing with search results? A lot, claims Tim Wu, a legal scholar and former FTC adviser. In a...

Acquiring

Yelp Expands into Fashion with Shoptiques.com

Shoptiques.com is Yelp’s latest addition to its growing family of partners. With this partnership, Yelp is increasing its inventory of local boutiques...

StubHub Personalizes Mobile User Experience

StubHub, the U.S.’s largest ticket resale platform, unveiled its new mobile and tablet apps, which will be live in the U.S., Canada...

Merchant Innovation

Is Yelp On The Block?

Despite its position at the top of many Web searches, review site Yelp is exploring a sale as it continues to struggle...

Yelp’s Plans To Shift Offline Orders Online With Eat24

While Yelp has always been vague about how it plans to monetize the platform — outside of advertising dollars — what it...

Yelp Expands Business Commerce Platform

Yelp got another makeover — this time to help Yelp’s app platform expand to more business categories to help Yelpers book more services....

Twitter Chirps About Google Deal, Yelp’s E-Commerce Future

Twitter didn’t divulge details about its payments or commerce strategy during the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call yesterday (Feb. 5) — even when questioned...

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B2B Payments

Lyft’s Employee Expense Account Plan

Considering how much time employees spending filling out expense reports and then how much accounts payable spend in processing those reports—let’s not...

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