Yelp Tweaks Its System for Transparency--and Lawsuit-Dodging

Yelp has found a work-around for those wicked extortion rumors (and that pesky lawsuit). In a blog
post with the no-nonsense headline "We're Increasing Transparency
and Eliminating 'Favorite Review'," Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman explains its plans. The "transparency" part is met by allowing users
to see reviews that would otherwise have been obscured by the review
filtering system. Whereas the Favorite Review part sees this entire
segment of the advertising package deleted from Yelp.

As...