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Business review website Yelp reported a wider fourth-quarter loss than analysts estimated Wednesday as it boosted spending on expansion into new markets.The net loss was $5.32 million (8 cents per share), the San Francisco company said. Analysts on average were projecting a loss of 5 cents, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Revenue was $41.2…

In Yelp's fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO Jeremy Stoppelman dropped a lot of numbers on the progress of the local-reviews site. But here's a big one: Yelp recorded 100 million monthly unique visitors in January. Yelp still has to show it can be profitable—a hurdle it didn't clear in the fourth quarter, although its loss narrowed.…

Shares of reviews company Yelp (YELP) were down nearly 5% in afternoon trading Thursday after the company late Wednesday posted a wider loss than Wall Street expected, despite a sales beat. San Francisco-based Yelp said it lost 8 cents per share, where analysts expected a 4-cent loss, according Thomson Reuters. Sales rose 65% to $41.2…