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, ...

An update from Yelp ( ($YELP) ) is now available. On December 18, 2025, Yelp Inc. amended its existing revolving credit and guaranty agreement, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the analysis continues on yesterday’s Google local search algorithm changes — that we’re calling the Pigeon update — one thing appears to be clear: Local directory sites are getting better ...