Yelp is a website that allows you to review almost every local service. This includes restaurants, bars, doctors, dentists, spas, hotels, pet stores, real estate agents, etc. Today Yelp has launched in Australia. Yelp will focus initially on Melbourne and Sydney and will expand to other cities from there. You can visit the Australian version of Yelp at Yelp.com.au.

Box.net has announced that they will be offering 50GB of free storage to anyone that has a Sony Ericsson or LG Android phone. When the offer officially launches, anyone that logs into or creates an account on Box.net will see 50GB of free storage. The press release about the details are below:

The Interactive Advertising Bureau has released the third quarter numbers for Internet advertising revenues. The total numbers are $7.88 billion for Q3 2011. This is up 22% from Q3 2010. This is also up 2.7% increase from Q2 2011. This is the 8th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth. The growth is due to an increase of brand marketing spending. [TechCrunch]

The Federal Communications Commission has granted AT&T’s request to withdraw its application to buy out T-Mobile. The FCC also released a 109 page report yesterday about what they think about the merger after much review. The FCC’s report lists more cons about the deal than pros. The FCC said that the merger would cause too many inefficient network issues and job losses. The cost savings generated by the deal wouldn’t be passed on to the customer either.

Wireless streaming music service, Sonos, has updated their Android application to support music streaming applications Slacker and Spotify. The Sonos System Software version 3.6 also adds Sonos Wireless HiFi, and support for Android tablets running 2.2. or higher. Below is the press release:

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has acquired digital marketing company Efficient Frontier. The acquisition will help Adobe add multi-channel ad campaign forecasting, execution, and optimization capabilities to their Digital Marketing solutions.

Foursquare APIs are used for applications such as Instagram, Thrillist, Localmind, Foodspotting, GoSocial by American Express, Quora, The Conan Blimp, and LocaModa. Since Foursquare’s developer community is growing, the company unveiled a newly redesigned developer website at developer.foursquare.com. Foursquare launched developer.foursquare.com in December 2010 along with the newest version of their API. Foursquare added new platform features such as Venue Project and Realtime Push APIs. Foursquare also retooled their Getting Started Guide. This should make life easier for Foursquare developers. [Foursquare Blog]

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) is preparing to launch an application for Microsoft Office, which would be available on the iPad in 2012. Microsoft is reportedly going to make Office for the iPad only $10. This about the same price that Apple charges for applications that they sell on the App Store including Pages, Numbers, and Keynote.