Yelp

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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Yelp Buys Industry’s Leading Waitlist System To Expand Reservation Services
Yelp Buys Industry’s Leading Waitlist System To Expand Reservation Services
March 02, 2017  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Yelp Inc. has acquired Nowait, a restaurant technology company with the industry’s leading waitlist system and seating tool, for $40 million in cash. The announcement...

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Square Hopes To No Longer Indulge In Caviar
Square Hopes To No Longer Indulge In Caviar
October 12, 2016  |  Partnerships / Acquisitions

Square no longer wants to be in the food delivery business and is trying to sell Caviar. Uber made an offer that was considered too...

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Yelp’s Year Of ‘Big’
Yelp’s Year Of ‘Big’
August 17, 2016  |  eCommerce

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 consumers check online...

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Yelp Helps Gamers With Pokémon GO
Yelp Helps Gamers With Pokémon GO
July 18, 2016  |  Retail

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 15), Yelp, which...

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GM Joins Ride-Hailing Market With Sidecar Buy
GM Joins Ride-Hailing Market With Sidecar Buy
January 20, 2016  |  Mobile Commerce

General Motors (GM) is gearing up to lock horns with Uber with its latest acquisition of Sidecar, a ride-hailing and delivery service provider. The acquisition...

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Why Yelp’s CEO Thinks Google Has ‘Lost Its Mind’
Why Yelp’s CEO Thinks Google Has ‘Lost Its Mind’
December 22, 2015  |  News

Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman got really honest about his opinion on Google during a recent interview for an episode of the “Re/code Decode” podcast. “Google has...

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Judge Rules Yelp’s Reviews Are Legit
Judge Rules Yelp’s Reviews Are Legit
November 30, 2015  |  News

The age-old debate about the authenticity of Yelp reviews may finally be put to rest with Yelp’s win against its shareholders, who sued the company...

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