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Yelp Adds Restaurant Inspection Scores
01/17/2013, Yelp is pushing its service even further. Today, the San Francisco-based service is announcing that it is bringing restaurant inspection scores to Yelp pages. Basically, users can now add and view restaurant hygiene scores, something that was not available in [...]
Woman Sued For Negative Yelp Review Won’t Have To Edit A Thing
01/02/2013, We wrote to you last month about a negative review on Yelp that ended in court. The defendant is a woman from Virginia named Jane Perez who took to Yelp, and also on Angie’s List, to express her disappointment with Dietz [...]
Airport Chatter Makes Travel More Social On Your iPhone
12/28/2012, With the holiday season behind us, you may not be planning on traveling for another year, unless you’re currently counting down the hours left in your work day until you get away for a New Years trip. If you’d like [...]
Yelp For Android Updated With Yelp Talk & New Integrated Action Bar
12/20/2012, Yelp users on Android will love to hear that the insanely popular local directory service has just been updated to version 3.7. The new update is just in time for the holiday season where people visit businesses to shop and [...]
Woman Sued For Negative Review On Yelp
12/07/2012, Watch out for those words, it could cost you thousands of dollars. A woman from Virginia , Jane Perez, wrote a negative review on Yelp. The review was for Dietz Development, a contracting company that apparently worked on Perez’s home. [...]
L.A. restaurant offers discount for customers to put cell phones away
08/16/2012, Dinner experiences have changed since the introduction of the smartphone. Now when you look around a restaurant you can see multiple people using their smartphone for texting, tweeting,taking photos of their food, or posting a Yelp review on the restaurant. [...]
iOS 6 Maps will reportedly feature Yelp’s check-in services
06/26/2012, If you enjoy checking-in to various locations using services offered by Foursquare and Facebook, it seems that come iOS 6, there are reports that iOS users will soon be able to check-in to locations via the new Maps app. The [...]
BMW Online now has access to Yelp
12/21/2011, BMW has just announced a new addition to its suite of integrated BMW Online apps. BMW drivers with BMW Online-equipped cars will now be able to access the popular review app – Yelp in their cars, without the aid of [...]
Loopt Revamped iPhone App with Pulse Feature
03/17/2010, [SXSW] At SXSW, I met with Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO, of Loopt, a location-based social networking site, and he showed me the new Loopt app for the iPhone. Loopt introduced its new Pulse button that allows SXSW attendees to [...]
Yelp Gets Additional $100m Investment
01/27/2010, You may have thought that Yelp was crazy to turn down a $500 million offer from Google a while back, but the review site has gotten a nice little windfall from Elevation Partners, a private equity firm in Silicon Valley. [...]
