Jaya Saxena is a former correspondent at Eater, and the series editor of Best American Food and Travel Writing. She explores wide ranging topics like labor, identity, and food culture. On January 30, ...

The idea is to correct "myths about Yelp" (namely that it is trying to extort ads out of business owners) and show that "displayed reviews on Yelp are completely independent of advertising -- or any ...

When a company IPOs it’s a good idea to examine its business model to ensure that the company, if not already profitable, has a real chance at becoming profitable in the future. Too often, especially ...

The problem has become so severe that Amazon, Google, and Yelp have all begun to weed out questionable reviews. However what is and what isn’t a questionable review? It gets complicated and the answer ...

SAN FRANCISCO - First the chefs of a small Italian restaurant got mad at online review site Yelp. Instead of trying to get better reviews, they decided to take a different approach: get terrible ones.

In their pending lawsuit, the Yelpers compare Yelp to a “slave ship.” Suing for wages, authors of online reviews for the crowdsourced site argue that Yelp could not be sustained or make profits ...

Not every Yelp (YELP-3.88%) employee is happy. The company, whose shares have dramatically under-performed the broader S&P 500 over the past 12 months, has come under fire from two former employees.

As if Facebook’s Instant Personalization needed another knock against it, tonight comes news of a security issue that makes the feature even more unnerving. Web security consultant George Deglin ...