Yelp, a long-time rival of Google, has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the search giant, accusing it of engaging in anticompetitive practices in the local search market.
The FTC has taken a significant step towards combating fake reviews and deceptive marketing practices with the announcement of a new rule targeting bogus online reviews designed to trick consumers.
A recent study by Yale School of Management professor Balázs Kovács reveals that AI-generated restaurant reviews can pass the “Turing test” by fooling both human readers and AI detectors, potentially undermining the credibility of online reviews.
Google, which became obsessed with identity and racial issues during its post-Trump period of radicalization, is adding a label feature to its Search and Maps products to identify businesses that are Asian-owned, after previously rolling out similar features for other racial groups.
Two antitrust bills that have attracted support from conservatives in Washington DC on the grounds of “bipartisan” efforts to curb the power of Big Tech are now being defended by progressives on the grounds that they will make the censorship of tech platforms easier.
Over 50 companies signed a letter recently claiming the Texas’ abortion ban threatened the health and economic stability of their employees and customers.
A recent article from Wired outlines how tech giants including Google and Apple are finding themselves increasingly under the scrutiny of global antitrust regulators. When countries like South Korea force tech giants to change policies within the country such as easing their stranglehold over app developers, the changes often occur on a global level.
Yelp, a website that crowdsources reviews about businesses, created a new filter to widen the divide between the vaxxed and the unvaxxed.
Business review app Yelp has added a new LGBT-owned tag and rainbow-colored map pins to its platform for pride month.
The business review app Yelp has added “Asian-owned” to its list of available company profile attributes in an attempt to promote Asian businesses.
At a time when businesses face an unprecedented threat of race-riot looting, review website Yelp has announced it will introduce warning labels that tell the public if a business has been “accused of racist behavior.”
A craft brewery out in the Hamptons is drawing outrage from the community for declaring its support for the Black Lives Matter movement.
The CEO of the popular restaurant review app Yelp, Jeremy Stoppelman, appeared on a podcast recently to discuss the growing monopoly power of the Big Tech Masters of the Universe. According to Stoppelman, Google doesn’t like to compete on a level playing field because, “when they tried to, they were losing.”
Tech giant Google has been accused of squeezing out rival search engines due to fears that it would “lose relevance” based on recently released internal emails.
Tech giant Google has introduced a new feature that allows businesses to mark themselves as black-owned on its Maps and Search products as part of its stated effort to support the black community. Google has not stated if it will examine applicants for the badge to ensure the companies truly have black ownership.
Business review site Yelp announces that it will provide a special search feature on its platform so that users can limit their results to black-owned businesses.
Silicon valley rental giant Airbnb has reportedly cut 1,900 jobs, or around 25 percent of its global workforce, due to a decline in revenue the company has suffered during the Chinese virus pandemic.
Mass layoffs at Silicon Valley tech firms such as Yelp and Eventbrite are beginning to show how the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic is affecting Silicon Valley.
Business review siteYelp has paused a partnership with GoFundMe that automatically set up fundraisers for tens of thousands of small businesses after restaurant and bar owners complained.
Sens. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr on Tuesday asking the Department of Justice to ensure that the agency’s antitrust investigation looks into Google’s search operations.
Oracle Executive Vice President Ken Glueck told Breitbart News in an interview on Wednesday that Google committed a “bank robbery” by allegedly stealing 11,000 lines of Oracle’s JAVA API code to develop its Android operating system.
A recent report claims that delivery apps such as Seamless, GrubHub, and DoorDash are listing restaurants on their services that don’t even offer takeout options.
The online review site Yelp is ramping up its long-standing feud with Google, saying in a new report that the search engine’s monopoly is not only hurting Yelp but is also hurting innovation and consumer choice in the digital marketplace.
The Supreme Court has rejected a case regarding whether or not Yelp is responsible for allegedly defamatory reviews on its platform.
The owner of the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, kicked out White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Friday night because she is a part of President Trump’s administration, and the media are mounting a defense.
A restaurant manager turned up unannounced to a woman’s house at 10:00 p.m. after she left a negative review of her order from the restaurant on Yelp.
A long-form piece in the New York Times Magazine highlights how Google is under increasing scrutiny for anticompetitive practices and how it may lead to government regulation.
The Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday announced that sixteen former and current residents of Park La Brea, one of Los Angeles’s largest apartment complexes, won a $3.5 million lawsuit over mental anguish suffered due to an infestation of bedbugs in their units.
A Boston University professor received a public reprimand from his dean and negative attention from the Boston Globe, the Associated Press, and other local and national outlets for writing a negative review of a swank Cambridge, Massachusetts, eatery.
Yelp, Apple, and PayPal all plan to sign an amicus brief encouraging the Supreme Court to rule that refusing service to LGBT people based on religious beliefs is not a First Amendment right, but rather anti-LGBT discrimination.
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Luther Lowe, vice president of public policy for Yelp, made the argument that Google was abusing its market advantages by snuffing out certain niche competition, particularly when it comes to local search and
This week, O’Mei Chinese Cuisine in Santa Cruz closed its doors to the public after 38 years of service after a local website revealed that owner Roger Grimsby donated $500 to former Klu Klux Klan (KKK) Imperial Wizard David Duke’s failed campaign for Senate in Louisiana last year.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Yale University dean has been placed on leave over offensive reviews she made on Yelp, including one in which she refers to customers of a local restaurant as “white trash.”
Yale Dean June Chu was forced to apologize after she called people “white trash” and “uneducated morons” in a series of Yelp reviews of restaurants and businesses in the New Haven, Connecticut, area.
President Donald Trump’s power to appoint a majority of the Federal Trade Commission’s members and the agency’s Chairman may usher in aggressive enforcement of anti-trust laws against several Silicon Valley tech giants.
Thanks to about 35 percent more units coming on the market in 2017 than on average over the last 20-year period, investors are offering free rent concessions to move empty apartments.
Google’s corporate motto is “Don’t Be Evil,” but after year of using its Washington, D.C. lobbying to trash other tech companies, the “Google Transparency Project,” funded by a secretive cabal of Silicon Valley interests, is producing a steady stream of investigative reporting exposés on Google’s crony capitalism.
Stephanie Williams, a 29-year-old TV screenwriter, writes that former Yelp employee Talia Jane is “healthy, capable, white” in a scathing attack on the 25-year-old bellyacher’s tale of corporate despair.
Yelp! stock became the latest Silicon Valley darling in the week before Valentine’s Day to tank by double-digits, as big investors retaliated for the 50 percent stock drop since December by forcing the company’s CFO to resign.
Following the April launch of an European Union regulatory investigation of biased Google search results to favor its own products , Yelp commissioned a study to determine if Google engages in any predatory actions that hurt users.
