Mobile

Yelp Says No Siri Direction Plans For Australia Yet

Gizmodo AU

One of the more annoying omissions in Siri’s Australian incarnation is that it doesn’t offer directions. Apparently that’s because reviews service Yelp, which Siri uses to help determine useful places to recommend, wasn’t available down under at launch. However, while Yelp Australia has launched today, that doesn’t necessarily mean Siri will get clued up for directions any time soon.


September 9, 2011
News

Google Just Bought Zagat, Making It The New King Of Restaurant Ratings

The official Google blog says it all: the Mountain View tech monster bought Zagat, whose restaurant ratings are used and respected all over the world. Yelp should be worried.


July 21, 2011
Mobile

Why I’m Stoked That Yelp Is Coming To Australia

Gizmodo AU

I’m glad to be back home in Sydney, but Yelp is one of the few things that I still miss from living in the States. The restaurant tips site morphed into a feature-packed, heavily trafficked business review app for phones — and seriously craps on anything we’ve got here: I’m looking at you Google Places and TrueLocal. So we’re ripe for Yelp’s picking as they team up with Telstra-Sensis-Yellow Pages to open doors in Oz.


April 29, 2011
Online

On Yelpers

Did you know? Being a terrible person is the sole requirement to sign up for a Yelp account. The Yelp Elite collects and presents the worst of the worst of humanity.


December 10, 2010
Mobile

Google Wants To Kill Yelp With A Dose Of NFC

What will the first official use be for the near-field communication tech found in Google’s new Nexus S phone? It will provide a quick way to rate restaurants and businesses in the Portland, OR area using their new Hotpot engine.


September 24, 2010
Online

Is Foursquare Ruining Eating Out?

What is your iPhone doing to dinner? When we obsessively track down a niche eatery on Yelp, are we excited because of the perfectly limed fish tacos or because broadcasting our discovery on Fourquare will just make us look cool?


August 12, 2010

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The nerds at Yelp who revolutionised the way 20-something girls could give their opinions on stuff and actually have it matter in the slightest, have turned their attention to beer. Namely, making an iPad and a keg work together.


December 22, 2009

Google Isn’t Going To Buy Yelp After All

Rest easy, territorial Yelpers: According to TechCrunch, a late-stage change of heart (or circumstance) led Yelp to walk away from a reported $550 million offer from Google this weekend.


December 18, 2009

Google Reportedly Deep In Talks To Buy Yelp

Techcrunch hears that Google is in advanced talks to buy Yelp (supposedly for $US500 million), and that the deal, while not finalised, is very close to that stage. This could be a huge boon for Google’s mapping and mobile efforts.


December 8, 2009
Software

Yelp Hits Android Market Today

The good news is that Android users finally have a Yelp app to call their own. The bad news is that it’s relatively bare-bones.