Competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia was already facing resistance in his quest to wrap up the long-running Google antitrust case, but Yelp’s new front-and-center involvement will almost certainly see the case continue. Read more »
Docker’s container technology, similar to a virtual machine, will supposedly make developing applications a less burdensome process for both systems administrators and coders. Read more »
Foursquare recently announced plans to spit its app in two in an effort to take on Yelp, Google and others in local mobile search and discovery. It’s a risky move that… Read more »
The caller ID and reverse phone directory app, which is only now seriously turning its sights on Western markets, is also touting major growth, having jumped from 10 million users in… Read more »
The Pebble Steel start shipping today and the Pebble appstore is not far behind. I got an early look at using installing some third-party apps from my iPhone to my Pebble… Read more »
More companies are stepping up their efforts in transforming local commerce, but startup MyTime aims to be an “Amazon for local services” with an online booking platform for a broad range… Read more »
Yelp has announced the winners of its inaugural Yelp Dataset Challenge, and the four entries it chose actually seem pretty useful. They run the gamut from a technique to highlight key… Read more »
The seedy underbelly of online reviews — especially companies paying for higher reviews — is a source of frequent speculation but rarely comes into the public eye. But according to the… Read more »
Yelp released a new tool called Wordmap that maps the volume of certain terms with popular Yelp cities. I used it to find out how strongly hipsters, frat boys and PBR… Read more »