Today at Cupertino, Apple had it’s first post-Jobs era product launch. Apple announced 2 things really. The iPhone 4S and the Siri, Assistant Search. This is a much better phone than the Samsung Charge that I have, but it’s not the “iPhone 5″ that was buzzing around the interwebs. Siri Search, makes use of Yelp’s [...]
Yelp keeps getting hit with lawsuits. At first offering advertising to local businesses, but when Yelp is declined those same businesses suddenly see their high ranking consumer reviews dissapear from the Yelp website.
A class-action lawsuit was filed against Yelp by two firms in Los Angeles federal court yesterday. The lawsuit alleges unfair business practices against the San Francisco-based user-generated review site, and, in particular, that the company “runs an extortion scheme in which the company’s employees call businesses demanding monthly payments, in the guise of ‘advertising contracts,’ in [...]
I’ve been inspired. And not in a good way. As much as I travel, I have never actually left a consumer review for any of the hotels that I’ve stayed at. With an experience so bad, I decided that not only will I write a review, it also has triggered a book idea.
