Yelp Unveils a Series of New AI-powered Features to Enhance Discovery and Connection with Local Businesses

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Yelp Unveils a Series of New AI-powered Features to Enhance Discovery and Connection with Local Businesses

2024-12-10 20:01 Last Updated At：20:11

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 10, 2024--

Yelp Inc. (NYSE: YELP), the company that connects people with great local businesses, today announced its end-of-year product release featuring more than 20 new updates designed to enhance the user experience for both consumers and business owners. Yelp’s latest product release includes AI-driven features, such as Review Insights that surface reviewer sentiment for common topics, a personalized home feed with even more user content, and enhancements to Yelp Assistant, the AI chatbot that connects consumers with service pros. Yelp also announced AI-powered improvements to the business owner experience with features like job summaries that help manage their inbox and a smart selection tool that automatically optimizes ad performance.

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“This year has been marked by an accelerated pace of product innovation at Yelp,” said Craig Saldanha, chief product officer at Yelp. “By using AI to harness Yelp’s vast amount of trusted user-generated content, in 2024 we’ve rolled out more than 80 new features that enhance the consumer and business owner experience. Our end-of-year product release highlights how Yelp is simplifying the way users discover and connect with local businesses with new AI-powered features like Review Insights that provide a shortcut to the information consumers care about most. We’re looking forward to continuing this momentum into the new year, with even more updates for consumers and business owners to come.”

AI-enhanced local business discovery

Yelp introduced new and improved ways to discover, learn about, and connect with local businesses with new features across the home feed and business pages on Yelp.

Streamlined hiring experience for consumers and service pros

Leveraging AI, Yelp enhanced the services experience to simplify connections between consumers and service pros.

Simplified ad setup and optimization for business owners

Continuing its commitment to helping business owners grow and succeed, Yelp introduced new features to better streamline ad setup and strengthen ad performance.

Additional Information and Assets

For more details on all of the latest updates from Yelp’s end-of-year product release, visit the company’s blog post. Assets and images are available here. For further information about Yelp, visit the company’s Fast Facts page.

About Yelp Inc.

Yelp Inc. ( yelp.com ) is a community-driven platform that connects people with great local businesses. Millions of people rely on Yelp for useful and trusted local business information, reviews and photos to help inform their spending decisions. As a one-stop local platform, Yelp helps consumers easily discover, connect and transact with businesses across a broad range of categories by making it easy to request a quote for a service, book a table at a restaurant and more. Yelp was founded in San Francisco in 2004.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements relating to, among other things, Yelp’s future product plans, including the ability of its investments and initiatives to drive profitable long-term growth and shareholder value, that are based on its current expectations, forecasts and assumptions that involve risks and uncertainties.

Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences also include, but are not limited to, those factors that could affect Yelp’s business, operating results and stock price included under the captions “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in Yelp’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K or Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q at yelp-ir.com or the SEC’s website at sec.gov.

Russia’s Victory Day parade begins, marking the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany

2025-05-09 15:29 Last Updated At：15:31

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia marked the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II with a massive military parade on Red Square on Friday attended by President Vladimir Putin and a slew of foreign leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Victory Day, which is celebrated in Russia on May 9, is the country’s most important secular holiday. A Red Square parade and other ceremonies underline Moscow’s efforts to project its global power and cement the alliances it has forged while seeking a counterbalance to the West amid the conflict Ukraine that has dragged into a fourth year.

World War II is a rare event in the nation’s divisive history under Communist rule that is revered by all political groups, and the Kremlin has used that sentiment to encourage national pride and underline Russia’s position as a global power.

The Soviet Union lost a staggering 27 million people in what it calls the Great Patriotic War in 1941-45, an enormous sacrifice that left a deep scar in the national psyche.

Festivities this year were overshadowed by Ukrainian drone attacks targeting Moscow and severe disruptions at the capital’s airports.

Russian flag carrier Aeroflot on Wednesday morning canceled more than 100 flights to and from Moscow, and delayed over 140 others as the military were repelling repeated Ukrainian drone attacks on the capital.

Russian authorities have tightened security ahead of the parade and cellphone internet outages have been reported amid electronic countermeasures aimed at foiling more potential drone attacks.

Putin has declared a unilateral 72-hour ceasefire starting Wednesday to coincide with the Victory Day celebrations. Moscow has been reluctant to accept a U.S.-proposed 30-day truce that Ukraine has accepted, linking it to a halt in Western arms supplies to Ukraine and Kyiv’s mobilization effort, conditions Ukraine and its Western allies have rejected.