Just as we get news of some consolidation in the local content market in the UK, some news of expansion, too: Qype, the Yelp of Europe (and Yelp’s closest competitor in the region), today announced that the number of places reviewed on its site has reached 860,000, with the number of monthly unique visitors now [...]

Finding a good restaurant – even in a city you’ve never been to – has never been easier. Thanks to Yelp, Urbanspoon and its various brethren, a good place to eat is generally just a few clicks away… Tweet This Post

For the Startup Spaces Series, Mashable got to scope out the spaces of some of the hottest startups around. Unsurprisingly, the offices of these companies have just as much personality as the products themselves… Tweet This Post

Now when you’re looking for a great place to grab dinner, get your haircut, or find an awesome dog walker for your K9 companion, Siri can help – with ratings. With the launch of iOS 5.1 last week, Apple added deeper Yelp integration for the built-in personal assistant… Tweet This Post

At TechCrunch Disrupt NYC last year, Gauri Manglik, Mike Lewis, and Orion Burt launched SpotOn, a recommendation engine in app, which served its users suggested local businesses based on their friends’ activity on Foursquare, Facebook, and more… Tweet This Post

Wall Street gave Yelp a less-than-perfect review on its second day of trading. The company’s stock slipped more than 14 percent Monday with shares closing at $20.99. Yelp made a stellar, five-star debut on the New York Stock Exchange Friday… Tweet This Post

H/t Hunter Walk and articles from Leena Rao, Colleen Taylor, Henry Blodget, and Om Malik. Disclosure: If its not obvious, these are not the actual star rankings from these authors. Tweet This Post

For Yelp, this has been a very good day. The restaurant review site was received exceptionally well by Wall Street during its first day as a publicly traded company, closing at a price of $24.58 per share, up a full 63 percent from its $15 IPO price… Tweet This Post

Tomorrow morning comes the moment  Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman’s been waiting for seven years.  According to the NYT, Yelp will drop on the NYSE under the YELP ticker tomorrow morning. Yelp will be offering 7… Tweet This Post

Yelp is ready to hit the marketplace with a $100 million IPO on March 2, and both investors and the tech community will be watching to see how the location network will fare. While the numbers are certainly nowhere near Facebook IPO territory, Yelp has proven itself over the long haul with steady user and [...]

Yelp‘s $100 million IPO is set for March 2, according to a report. Dow Jones is reporting the company plans to sell 7.15 million shares to the public at $12 to $14 each. That means the company’s market cap could hit $838… Tweet This Post

Yelp built its ad business by attracting users that know what they want, just not who to buy it from — exactly when ads are most effective. That’s why I find today’s VentureBeat piece by Rocky Agrawal titled “Yelp advertising is a rip-off for small advertisers” to be ridiculous… Tweet This Post