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2012-12-11 05:03:25

An important factor of gaining revenue in today’s market is the web presence of a company. Zanes Law continues to expand their online presence by adding their company information to multiple directories. The three main directories they invested in are Yelp, MapQuest, and Yahoo. Tucson, AZ (PRWEB) December 10, 2012 An important factor of gaining revenue in today’s market is the web presence of a company. Zanes Law continues to expand their online presence by adding their company...

2012-11-20 16:31:23

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Yelp, Inc. (NYSE: YELP), the company that connects consumers with great local businesses, today announced that management will present at the Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference in Scottsdale, AZ on Tuesday, November 27, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. MT. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20050511/SFW134LOGO) A webcast of the presentation will be available on the company's investor relations website at http://www.yelp-ir.com under the...

2012-11-01 15:32:23

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP), the company that connects consumers with great local businesses, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2012. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20050511/SFW134LOGO) Net revenue was $36.4 million in the third quarter of 2012, reflecting 63% growth in net revenue from the third quarter of 2011 Cumulative reviews grew 49% year over year to more than 33 million...

2012-10-24 03:20:36

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP), the company that connects consumers with great local businesses, today announced it has acquired Qype, Europe's largest local reviews site. Qype was acquired to accelerate Yelp's international expansion, bringing more than two million reviews and 15 million unique visitors per month across 13 countries. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20050511/SFW134LOGO) "I am excited to welcome Qype's employees and...

Yelp Fake Reviews Under Fire
2012-10-18 14:03:10

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Yelp knows you paid for that review, and now they’re going to tell everyone about it. The social networking/business review service allows users to leave reviews for their favorite businesses. Others on the service are then able to see these reviews, and many decide to dine at or dash away from a particular establishment based on these reviews. In fact, recent studies have found that for every half-star in a 5-star system that a...

2012-10-18 07:23:31

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP), the company that connects people with great local businesses, announced today that it will be taking additional steps to protect consumers from biased reviews. The company will place a consumer alert message on a business's profile page when it determines that there have been significant efforts to purchase fake reviews to mislead consumers. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20050511/SFW134LOGO) "Yelp...

2012-10-17 15:22:24

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP), the company that connects consumers with great local businesses, today announced that it will issue its financial results for third quarter ended September 30, 2012 after the market close on Thursday , November 1, 2012. Yelp will host a conference call to discuss the results at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Time (4:30 p.m. Eastern Time) on the same day. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20050511/SFW134LOGO) To access...

2012-10-09 07:23:21

NEW YORK, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As online review sites gain in power and influence, the number of fraudulent reviews also increases. A recent Ad Age article highlights the efforts that sites like TripAdvisor and Yelp.com are making to weed out fake reviews, but, as the article notes, it is an "inexact science," and false reviews will always slip through the cracks. This ever-increasing rate of misleading reviews stands to hurt the consumers who place so much trust in these...

2012-10-07 23:00:12

Local Business Review Site 5Star Control takes on the topic of Yelp’s expansion into the sixth biggest market in the European Union, Poland. (PRWEB) October 07, 2012 5StarControl has issued an announcement about Yelp launching its online review service in Poland. Local Business Review Site 5StarControl wrote that consumers are going to be entranced by Yelp launching its new Polish website, which currently focuses on the major cities of Krakow and Warsaw. This expansion into other...

2012-10-03 14:22:58

WARSAW, Poland, Oct. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP), the company that connects consumers with great local businesses, today announced the availability of Yelp Poland (http://www.yelp.pl). Beginning today, people in Poland are able to create accounts on Yelp.pl to share their opinions about great local businesses and services. Yelp's free iPhone and Android applications will be available as well as its free suite of business owner tools: Yelp for Business Owners...