Google has run into some "complications" upgrading local businesses to the new Places dashboard.
In some cases, businesses' accounts and another accounts that they don’t control...
Google and The Local Media Consortium, which is made up of 800 newspapers and 200 local broadcast outlets from 41 member companies throughout the U.S., announced a strategic partne...
Google announced that it has made some tweaks to the Google Places Quality Guidelines, specifically for business names. The changes illustrate how you can add descriptors.
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Yelp announced that it is rolling out a new site design along with a new look for business pages. Rather than making a few teaks, the've elected to take the "from the ground up" ap...
Google announced that it is making some changes to how business pages are created.
Businesses creating listings in the new Places for Business dashboard will no longer have to...
Google is working on improving and expanding the business categories for Google Places For Business for countries around the world. In fact, they're adding over 1,000 new categorie...
MapQuest announced that it has made some adjustments to the way businesses can manage their listings. The AOL-owned company says the changes make the process of handling informatio...
The story has been going on for quite some time. Businesses accuse Yelp of "extortion" or holding their positive reviews hostage unless they spend advertising money, and Yelp denie...
You're probably aware of multiple controversial issues surrounding Yelp reviews. There are several to choose from. You have some businesses accusing the company of...
Oakland Yelp user Victor G. received some recognition from Yelp for posting the most reviews of 2013 with a total of 1,712 during the year. That's a lot of reviews (about five a da...
This week, eBay announced the launch of some new personalization and curation features for the eBay Marketplace, and that it is expanding its efforts in local commerce, including t...
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