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Yelp is a business directory service and crowd-sourced review forum, and a public company of the same name that is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company develops, hosts and markets the Yelp.com website and the Yelp mobile app, which publish crowd-sourced reviews about businesses.
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VISAVisa’s SMB Hub Launches With 20 Partners Including PayPal, Yelp and Freshbooks
Visa has launched an online resource for small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) designed to assist entrepreneurs expand their businesses and build stronger...
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Mobile Order AheadDeep Dive: The Importance Of Fighting Fake Restaurant Reviews And Social Media Fraud
Social media engagement plays a central role in modern restaurants’ daily business, with eateries using platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to...
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Mobile Order AheadHow Fake Reviews Undermine Restaurants’ COVID-19 Responses
A third of consumers refuse to order from a restaurant that rates less than four stars on online review websites. Too often,...
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RetailNew Yelp Feature Helps Local Businesses Promote Digital Offerings
As businesses struggle to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic, Yelp is extending a helping hand with the implementation of a tab...
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CoronavirusYelp To Lay Off Or Furlough 2,100 As Local Businesses Struggle With COVID-19
As the coronavirus has severely disrupted local businesses that need to stop or cut spending on its offerings, Yelp will lay off 1,000 staffers...
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CoronavirusGoFundMe, Yelp Launch Crowdfunding Campaign For SMBs
To offer a quick and easy way for independent businesses to begin fundraisers and take donations via their Yelp pages, Yelp has...
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CoronavirusYelp Offers $25M In Free Ads To Coronavirus-Hit Restaurants, Bars
As restaurants struggle to stay afloat amid the coronavirus pandemic, Yelp says it will offer $25 million in relief to support independently...
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GoogleYelp To Senators: Break Up Google
Yelp was able to voice its displeasure with Google at a hearing with the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee on Tuesday (March 10), according...
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RetailDelivering QSR Ordering Options With Digital Collaborations
Quick-service restaurants are teaming with online platforms to let diners receive their favorite menu items via delivery. Krispy Kreme, in one case, plans...
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ResTechYelp Store Visits Aims To Boost Brands’ Consumer Visits
New ad products introduced by Yelp will let restaurants better understand the impact of their ads on local foot traffic, according to...
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Security & FraudAvast Antivirus Program Selling Private Browser Data
Antivirus program Avast was found to be selling user data to a number of huge companies, including Google, Microsoft and Pepsi. The...
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Mobile Order AheadHow Dunkin’ Uses AI For Order Ahead Analytics
Digital food ordering is more popular than ever, with restaurant delivery expected to grow at three times the rate of on-site dining...
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NewsTop News In Payments: R3 Works With Mastercard On Blockchain Tech; Uber Pushes Back On California Law
Today in the payments news roundup, R3, an enterprise software provider, is collaborating with Mastercard to establish a blockchain cross-border payments solution....
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RetailYelp Debuts Restaurant Updates, Upgrades Waitlist
To let users go beyond reviews from customers and see information from restaurants, Yelp has added a new way for eateries to...
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Partnerships / AcquisitionsGroupon Said To Be Pondering Yelp Acquisition
On the heels of shareholder restlessness, Groupon is considering acquiring another company — and insiders think Yelp could be the target, The...
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Yelp To Survey Users And Tailor App To Their Likes, Dislikes
Yelp announced that it has launched new personalization tools that will tailor the app to a user’s individual preferences and lifestyle. With...
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Security & FraudYelp Adds Tracking To Restaurants’ Phone Numbers For Grubhub Incentive
Vice is reporting that Yelp is changing phone numbers for Grubhub in order to let the company take a “referral fee” of...
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GoogleYelp: 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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ResTechYelp 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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InvestmentsAs 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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NewsVisa, 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...
- Investments
Yelp 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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InvestmentsYelp 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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EarningsYelp 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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InnovationBuick, 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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EarningsYelp’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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LegalYelp 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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Payments 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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RegulationIs 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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NewsFive 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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GoogleYelp 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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RetailGrocers 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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Loyalty & 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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Merchant 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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GoogleGoogle, 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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GoogleMississippi 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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ResTechPlease 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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Loyalty & 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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ResTechOne 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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Today 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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GoogleGoogle 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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RetailYelp’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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LegalYelp 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 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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Mobile 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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Partnerships / 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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DeliveryYelp’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...
- Partnerships / Acquisitions
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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GoogleConfused 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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RetailYelp 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...
