Solicitation I Just Got Offering Yelp Reviews For Sale Before you get too excited, I'm not ever going to tell you to buy reviews. It's stupid, dangerous, and has the very likely potential to get your account labeled as fraudulent. I'm not even just making assumptions. We tested it by creating "new businesses" (that didn't…
Posted By Anna Roth @annaroth on Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:02 AMThe internet’s all in a tizzy the past few days thanks to a Wednesday ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which said that review site Yelp could manipulate its ratings for money.So, say a small diner makes a big ad buy on the site, those extra…
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Great idea and very convenient, but too many botched deliveries. Review: One star. That, in a nutshell, sums up investors’ sentiments on Yelp right now. The company’s stock fell as much as 30% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company posted disappointing sales results. That drop effectively erases all Yelp’s stock gains from the last…
Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP), the company that connects consumers with great local businesses, today announced financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2013. Net revenue was $61.2 million in the third quarter of 2013, reflecting 68% growth in net revenue from the third quarter of 2012 Cumulative reviews grew 42% year over year…
Yelp has just released its earnings report for the third quarter. Revenue was up 68% year-over-year at $61.2 million for the quarter. The company beat Wall Street expectations for revenue, but earnings per share weren’t as good as expected at $0.04. Cumulative reviews grew 42% year-over-year reaching over 47.3 million. Average monthly unique visitors were…
- 1 week ago @ digitaltrends.com: Do you want to be the Roger Ebert of social media food reviews? If so, now's your chance: This week, Facebook added a “review” button for the Pages of Places. You can write about your amazing trip to the local seafood market or compose a scathing ...- 1 week ago…
- 14 hours ago @ thestreet.com: Jefferies raised its price target on Yelp (YELP) to $80 from $50, and Cramer agreed, saying, "I think the stock is right." Cramer noted that Wedbush Securities called Sotheby's (BID) "cheap" based on the earnings. Jefferies initiated Qualcomm (QCOM) as ...
- 1 week ago @ newsobserver.com: That's why the owners of the Raleigh shop are concerned about the filtering of online reviews on Yelp, a website that allows customers to rate and review businesses. The site has a practice of filtering reviews and showcasing ones that have been chosen ...
- 3 days ago @ eater.com: According to the suit, Yelp has "devised a system of cult-like rewards and disciplines to motivate" writers in lieu of monetary compensation, including "trinkets, badges, titles, praise, social promotion, free liquor, free food, and free promotional ...- 1 day ago @ searchenginewatch.com: Yelp A lawsuit filed in California is seeking employment…
- 4 days ago @ mnn.com: A group of Yelp reviewers has filed a class-action suit against the review website, claiming they are really “unpaid writers” and deserve to be paid for their reviews of restaurants and other businesses. Yelp, if you are unfamiliar with it, is a user ...- 3 days ago @ techland.time.com: In their…
- 2 days ago @ pcmag.com: A group of Yelp reviewers has filed a class-action lawsuit, which argues that they deserve compensation for their work on the site. Filed in a Los Angeles district court, the suit says Yelp simply designates its contributors as "independent contractors ...- 3 days ago @ mnn.com: A group of Yelp reviewers…
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB): Earnings per share of 25 cents trounced estimates by 6 cents, as revenue of $2.02 billion also beat, by $110 million. Mobile ad sales grew 34 percent over the second quarter, to $880 million, making up 49 percent of all ad sales. Total ad sales saw gains of 13 percent quarter over quarter and 66 percent year…
- 1 day ago @ mnn.com: A group of Yelp reviewers has filed a class-action suit against the review website, claiming they are really “unpaid writers” and deserve to be paid for their reviews of restaurants and other businesses. Yelp, if you are unfamiliar with it, is a user ...- 3 days ago @ fastcompany.com: A group…