- Lawmakers Protect Consumers' Right To Post Reviews
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Congress has passed the Consumer Review Fairness Act, which aims to preve ...
- Yelp Asks California Judges To Lift Censorship Order
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, November 22, 2016
A court order requiring Yelp to purge a bad review from i ...
- SweetIQ, Yelp Integration Closes Online-Offline Attribution Gap
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, November 17, 2016
Local marketing technology company SweetIQ has launched an integration with local recommendatio ...
- California's Highest Court To Review Yelp Censorship Order
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 22, 2016
The California Supreme Court agreed to hear Yelp's appeal of an ord ...
- Yelp May Have Violated iPhone Users' Privacy Rights By Uploading Address Books
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 13, 2016
A federal judge has rejected Yelp's argument that it's entitled to preva ...
- Locksmith Can't Revive Battle With Yelp Over One-Star Review
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, September 12, 2016
Yelp scored a major victory today, when a federal appellate court refus ...
- Prestigious Pets Loses Battle Over Bad Yelp Review
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Friday, September 2, 2016
A judge in Texas has dismissed Prestigious Pets' lawsuit against a custom ...
- Silicon Valley And Media Companies Back Yelp In Battle Over Negative Review
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, August 23, 2016
Google, Twitter, Pinterest and The New York Times are among dozens ...
- Yelp Flags Businesses That Sue Over Bad Reviews
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Yelp is now warning customers about businesses that "may be trying ...
- Texas Couple Sued By Petsitting Service Over Yelp Review
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Friday, February 19, 2016
A petsitting service has sued a couple in Plano, Texas over ...
- Florida Couple Must Pay $350,000 For Defaming Attorney On Yelp
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, February 8, 2016
A Florida appellate court has upheld an order requiring a divorcing coup ...
- Yelp Defeats Shareholder Lawsuit Over Phony Reviews
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 30, 2015
Yelp shareholders can't proceed with a lawsuit accusing the company of dupi ...
- Bill Outlawing Online 'Gag' Clauses Advances In Senate
Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Thursday, November 19, 2015
The Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday approved a bill aimed at protecti ...
- Senate Considers Banning Online 'Gag' Clauses
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, November 5, 2015
Consumer advocates and companies that operate review sites are backing a propos ...
- Yelp, Twitter, And Others Urge Court To Uphold Net Neutrality Rules
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, September 24, 2015
Without net neutrality rules, platforms for speech by users could disappear, Yel ...
- Yelp Reviewer Who Blasted Business Owner Must Pay $1,000
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 23, 2015
A judge in Staten Island has ordered Emily Fanelli to pay $1,0 ...
- Yelp Adds Active Cleanup Alerts
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, September 18, 2015
Yelp added a pop-up alert warning users that there is a cleanu ...
- Jewelry Store Owner Seeks To Unmask Yelp Reviewer
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, September 15, 2015
The owner of a jewelry store in Boston is seeking to unma ...
- Claiming Your Local Directory Listing
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Claiming business listings and keeping them updated is important, but finding t ...
- Yelp, Time For A Takeover?
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, August 3, 2015
Investors are calling for Yelp to merge with another big company aft ...
- Yelp-Funded Study Says Google's 'Universal Search' Harms Users
Around The Net in Daily Online Examiner, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 29, 2015
A new Yelp-funded study, co-authored by legal scholar and net neutrality propone ...
- Yelp Study Criticizes Google For 'Degrading' Search Results, Harming Consumers
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Monday, June 29, 2015
Yelp funded a new study, unveiled this weekend, which concludes that Goog ...
- Online Marketplaces Align Google, Yelp, Bagedo IB
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, May 29, 2015
Marketplaces continue to emerge as the next model forcing change across t ...
- Yelp Doesn't Have To Unmask Reviewers In Virginia
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, April 16, 2015
In a closely watched battle over online reviews, Virginia's highest state cou ...
- Amazon Search Share For Products Rises
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Where do you start when searching for products to buy online? Abo ...
- Consumer Comments: What's Their Real Worth -- And Effect?
TV Watch, Wayne Friedman - Tuesday, March 24, 2015
"Your TV show sucks. I mean, it really sucks. And my frien ...
- The Science Of 'Do It With Me'
SearchBlog, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, February 27, 2015
The movement to spruce up and expand aging digital media continues. A ...
- Yelp Acquires Eat24, Mobile Driving Searches, Transactions
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Yelp announced the acquisition of online ordering platform Eat24 for $134 milli ...
- Yelp Says It Won't Face FTC Complaint Over Ad Practices
Online Media Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Review site Yelp says that the Federal Trade Commission has closed ...
- Why Consumers Don't Use Twitter
Social Media & Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, October 6, 2014
Among the reasons why consumers do not use Twitter, 52% said th ...