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Yelp to Expand Services Advertising Revenues With RepairPal Acquisition
Yelp to Expand Services Advertising Revenues With RepairPal Acquisition
November 08, 2024  |  Acquisitions

Local business information platform Yelp plans to acquire auto services platform RepairPal for about $80 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of the year,...

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Amazon Uses Technology and Legal Action to Combat Fake Reviews
Amazon Uses Technology and Legal Action to Combat Fake Reviews
October 14, 2024  |  Security & Fraud

Amazon said Monday (Oct. 14) that it has been using legal action and other methods to combat fake reviews and prevent those reviews from being...

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Judge Allows Yelp to Sue Firm That Claimed to Remove ‘Bad’ Reviews
Judge Allows Yelp to Sue Firm That Claimed to Remove ‘Bad’ Reviews
June 07, 2024  |  Legal

Yelp can continue a trademark infringement and unfair competition lawsuit against a company that advertised that it could remove “bad” reviews from the platform. A...

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Millennials Pull Rank as Brand Ambassadors; Gen Z Tougher Customers
Millennials Pull Rank as Brand Ambassadors; Gen Z Tougher Customers
February 29, 2024  |  Restaurant innovation

With so much consumer review information accessible on the go, the days of simply rolling the dice and taking a chance on a local restaurant...

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Amazon’s ‘Your Books’ Lets Customers View Reading History, Recommends Titles
Amazon’s ‘Your Books’ Lets Customers View Reading History, Recommends Titles
December 13, 2023  |  Amazon

Amazon’s latest offering harkens back to its roots as a bookseller. The company’s Your Books feature, announced Wednesday (Dec. 13), lets users explore all their...

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Amazon Takes More ‘Fake Review Brokers’ to Court
Amazon Takes More ‘Fake Review Brokers’ to Court
August 14, 2023  |  Amazon

Amazon has filed suit against two services it accuses of churning out bogus product reviews. “Fake reviews are primarily being driven by the emergence of an...

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Amazon Testing Instant Review Feature
Amazon Testing Instant Review Feature
September 13, 2019  |  eCommerce

Amazon is testing an easier way for customers to leave feedback on purchased items, according to a report. Normally, when someone wants to rate an...

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FinServ Matchmaker SuperMoney Tops $2B In Loan Requests
FinServ Matchmaker SuperMoney Tops $2B In Loan Requests
August 12, 2019  |  Alternative Finances

Most people make big purchases not so much with the total cost of ownership in mind, but how much it costs them on a monthly...

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Yelp Adds Tracking To Restaurants’ Phone Numbers For Grubhub Incentive
Yelp Adds Tracking To Restaurants’ Phone Numbers For Grubhub Incentive
August 06, 2019  |  Security & Fraud

Vice is reporting that Yelp is changing phone numbers for Grubhub in order to let the company take a “referral fee” of between 15 to...

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