SF News Yelp Revenues Are Actually Up, But They're Still Losing Money San Francisco-based review site Yelp posted its third-quarter revenue report yesterday, beating analysts' expectations with a reported growth in revenues of 40 percent over the same quarter last year. The company's stock price
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Daughter Of Tadich Grill Family Talks About Being Disowned For Marrying A Black Man, Yelpers Respond En Masse A story with local implications broke on Sunday via the Washington Post, and it's already spelling some trouble for a storied local restaurant, via Yelp. Terri Upshaw, born Terri Buich into the family
Arts & Entertainment No, Yelp Is Not Suing <i>South Park</i> Over Last Week's Hilarious Yelp Episode Local citizen review outfit Yelp has far bigger problems these days than dealing with a parody takedown of the Yelp Elite on South Park last week but a parody website "nbc.com.co"
SF News 'Yelp For People' App Changes Course After Death Threats, Now Just Sounds Like LinkedIn After inciting the wrath, and occasional death threats, from the entire internet last week, the founder of that Peeple app dubbed the "Yelp for people" because it would allow everyone to review everyone
SF News Free Lunch Loving Techbros Reportedly Hooked On SoMa Strip Club Buffet The folks of SoMa's tech scene have reportedly taken quite a liking to gentleman's clubs. After all, most of them are gentleman, as the industry has struggled to hire women. As Forbes snitches
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Goes Super Classy With Greece Promo In their weekly newsletter for San Francisco this week (and possibly other cities), Yelp decided to make light of the Greek financial crisis which the New York Times today explains is far worse
SF News Google And Priceline The Leaders In The Clubhouse As Potential Yelp Buyers With the reports that Yelp is looking to sell itself, the speculation is bubbling up over who might be its new owner. One report puts two Internet giants at the top of the
SF News Now Yelp Might Be For Sale What's that sound? The "market correction" or bubble pop or whatever you want to call it may be getting nearer as big companies are wondering if it's time to cash out including this
SF News Yelp Gets Lawsuit Dismissed That Claims They Posted Fake Reviews Yelp gives gives Judge Jon Tigar five stars! On Wednesday, the user-generated review website won another court victory when the judge dismissed a lawsuit by a shareholder that claimed they lied about the
SF News Trailer For Yelp Documentary 'Billion Dollar Bully' Gives Company Scathing Reviews San Francisco-based documentarian Kaylie Milliken is turning her camera on the often domineering business phenomenon that is Yelp. She's about halfway through filming “Billion Dollar Bully," which appears to be a pointed indictment
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Company That Helps Boost Yelp Pages With Positive Reviews Being Sued By Yelp Well, this is rich. Yelp now has a lawsuit against a company that's been getting paid by businesses to game the Yelp system and flood their pages with positive reviews. Yelp of course
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Restaurant Begs Loyal Customers To Post Bad Reviews In F-You To Yelp Botto Bistro, an Italian spot across the Bay in Richmond, has been using Yelp's own notoriously aggressive (some say extortionist) sales tactics as an excuse to discredit the site completely. As the Richmond
SF News Letter To The Editor: A Small Business Owner Responds To Yelp's Legal Triumph Many people were surprised by our story yesterday about a 9th Circuit ruling in favor of Yelp's advertising practices, saying that even if plaintiffs could prove the company had manipulated reviews and star
SF News Yelp Is Allowed To Manipulate Ratings And Remove Good Reviews, Says Court Yelp has consistently challenged the notion that they've extorted small businesses by implying a pay-to-play structure when it comes to the way positive and negative reviews are displayed on the site, and so
SF News Yelp Lied About Allegedly Shady Sales Tactics, New Shareholders Lawsuit Claims A few of you fine commenters chimed in about my Yelp post yesterday, saying I was unfair to criticize CEO Jeremy Stoppelman's comments on San Francisco's housing problem and the lack of diversity
SF News Yelp's CEO Makes Light Of S.F. Housing Problems, Blames Tech's Lack Of Diversity On Education Yelp is one of the apps I use most on my phone as it has essentially become the modern yellow pages, but it's a somewhat guilty pleasure after learning that the company's business
SF News Day Around the Bay: Yelp's Fancy New Digs Yelp's new offices at 140 New Montgomery include a "coffee shop" and a "general store." [Business Insider] Beloved ten-year-old Tenderloin martini bar Olive is closing, possibly this weekend. [Eater] How to stop Facebook's
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Yelp Rolling Out Video Reviews, Because It's Not Self-Indulgent Enough Next month, to augment user-uploaded photos of restaurants and dishes on their reviews, Yelp will be offering the ability to upload videos of businesses as well, presumably with audio comment. I'm looking forward
Arts & Entertainment Yelp Reviews Of The County Jail Are The Only Yelp Reviews We Trust Yelp reviews of the San Francisco county jail (barely holding a 2.5-star ranking) will set your caged heart free and/or enlighten those of you who might have to stay there one
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Jeremy Stoppelman, Alice Waters Among America's 50 Most Powerful Food People Who's the most powerful person in your food world? Is it your roommate who always leaves leftovers unattended in the fridge? The bartender you're dating who sometimes gives you free drinks? Is it
SF News It's Official: This Boom Is Bigger Than The Last Boom, At Least For Office Space In the past three years alone, as the Chron is reporting via a new report by CB Richard Ellis, tech companies have leased 40% more office space than in the entire five-year period
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Groupon Salesman Threatens Restaurateur Because He Hung Up On Him, Gets Canned Oh, Groupon. So annoying. But if you thought all those emails about knitting classes you don't want were getting excessive, get a load of this story of a frustrated Groupon sales guy who
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Video: Defendant Alleges Yelp Extortion On 'The People's Court' On a recent episode of The People's Court, a defendant sounded off on bad Yelp reviews affecting his business, going so far as to bring up his own experience with the company's alleged
SF News New Map Reveals Which Neighborhoods Yelpers Find Sketchy As the Internet's reviews site of record, Yelp has amassed mountains of data on which restaurants have terrible parking and which users had terrible dates. Today, the company released a new map visualization
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink San Francisco Thai Joint Calls For Yelp Boycott In Hayes Valley, a local San Francisco restaurant Bai Thong Thai is calling on neighbors and diners to "Stop the Bully" by boycotting Yelp, alleging the user reviews site is engaged in some
