A decade can seem like forever, and when it comes to anything in the computer and digital age, ten years can be forever.  Think of how far ten years can take us in this day and age of technology. But did you know that Yelp is turning ten this year?  Yup.  Ten years old.  That’s […]

Is free speech under attack in Virginia state?  It seems that a court of appeal in the state ruled that Yelp must disclose the real identities of seven individuals who posted anonymous critical reviews of a carpet cleaning business, Hadeed Carpet, in Alexandria, Virginia. The reason behind this action is that Hadeed feels that the reviews […]

You may remember last weeks news where the New York Attorney General fined 19 companies a total of $350,000 for creating and publishing fake reviews for their clients. Because of what happened with the companies in question, their reputations will forever be tarnished with bad juju.  For any company that has been thinking of doing […]

In order to combat for the reviews and unacceptable tactics to earn reviews, Yelp posted another batch of consumer alert messages on business profile pages. This will not work the second time, because Yelp has announced that some businesses are going to be outed for trying to game its system. Back in October, a message […]

As of last week, the Google+ Local mobile app for iOS was killed by Google.  According to Google, all of the same content was available in Google Maps for iOS.  It was announced that the relaunch of the Zagat site and the mobile app for Android and iPhone was a-go. All of the content found […]