Yelp: More than a half-million new businesses opened this past year By Deanna B. Narveson - April 21, 2021 FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmailPrint More than 500,000 new businesses opened across the U.S. in the past year, new data from Yelp shows, as the economy recovered from the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic. In its Economic Average Report… Already an INSIDER? Sign in.