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 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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Yelp Gets Revenue Lift From AI, Ad Sales in Challenging Environment 
Yelp Gets Revenue Lift From AI, Ad Sales in Challenging Environment 
August 08, 2024  |  Earnings

Back in 2004, Yelp’s crowd-sourced business review platform helped create an era of commerce defined by at-your-fingertips convenience. That was then. But two decades later,...

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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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Yelp Unveils AI-Powered Business Summaries
Yelp Unveils AI-Powered Business Summaries
January 30, 2024  |  Artificial Intelligence

Online business review forum Yelp has added more (artificial intelligence) AI-powered search tools. “For years, we’ve leveraged AI to help reduce consumers’ decision paralysis — from spotlighting...

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Online Review Firm Yelp Sees 13% Hike in Net Revenue for Q2
Online Review Firm Yelp Sees 13% Hike in Net Revenue for Q2
August 03, 2023  |  Earnings

Yelp Inc. has delivered a record-breaking performance for its second quarter results released Thursday (Aug. 3).  According to their earnings report, the online business reviews company saw...

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Torch Dental Secures $28M to Digitize Dental Supply Chain
Torch Dental Secures $28M to Digitize Dental Supply Chain
July 17, 2023  |  Healthcare

Dental supply provider Torch Dental announced a $28 million Series B round with the goal to digitize the billion-dollar dental supply chain. Bringing its total funding to...

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Yelp Hoping LLMs and AI can Boost Its Search Features
Yelp Hoping LLMs and AI can Boost Its Search Features
April 25, 2023  |  artificial intelligence

Yelp is the latest tech company hitching its wagon to the artificial intelligence star. The business director and review forum on Tuesday (April 25) rolled...

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Apple’s Business Connect May Be at Disadvantage vs Google and Yelp
Apple’s Business Connect May Be at Disadvantage vs Google and Yelp
January 11, 2023  |  Apple

In the battle over business listings, Apple is going head-to-head with Google and Yelp. But the new Apple business tool, announced Wednesday (Jan. 11) —...

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Shrinkflation on the Menu Sparks Unsavory Yelp Reviews
Shrinkflation on the Menu Sparks Unsavory Yelp Reviews
July 20, 2022  |  Economy

Reviewers on Yelp have a bitter taste in their mouths and are taking to the social site as meal sizes shrink amid rising costs for everything and...

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