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Deal or No Deal
Since Groupon first launched in 2008, daily deal competitors have flooded the market. While some have reached near-Groupon levels of popularity, others quickly fizzled. Success “boils down to two key...
View ArticleBuyWithMe Lays Off Half Its Staff
New York-based daily deals site BuyWithMe, which has spent the past few months buying up competitors, has fired more than half of its employees, BetaBeat first reported yesterday. According to a...
View ArticleGroupon Sues Ex-Employees Who Left for Google
Groupon is suing two former employees who allegedly took “confidential trade secrets” to their new jobs at Google. The two ex-sales managers, Michael Nolan and Brian Hanna, left Groupon in September...
View ArticleClear Channel, Cumulus Partnership Aims Crosshairs at Pandora, Groupon
Clear Channel's three-year-old digital streaming service, iHeartRadio, will now stream content from 570 terrestrial radio stations owned by competitor Cumulus Media, the companies announced today....
View ArticleGroupon Takes a Page Out of Facebook Studio
Facebook Studio, eat your heart out. Following a trend among notable digital firms like Facebook, Groupon today announced significant upgrades to GouponWorks, a resource that’s designed to show local...
View ArticleBanks Eat Into Groupon's Business
One day after Groupon's disappointing Q2 earnings report, the daily deals row isn't getting any easier to hoe. For the second consecutive week, a major banking institution has rolled out a deals...
View ArticleStarbucks' Heavy Metal
Whether Starbucks coffee is anything special is a matter of opinion, and yet the brand clearly has many caffeine addicts hooked. But are they willing to fork over $450 to replace those plastic...
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LivingSocial Nabs Former Best Buy CMO
LivingSocial today tapped Barry Judge as CMO, the same role he held at Best Buy for the last four years during his decade-plus tenure at the big box retailer. He left Best Buy in May, exiting the...
View ArticleFoursquare’s Crowley: Our Users Are Real-World Google Crawlers
Foursquare is in the midst of a fundamental paradigm shift, stepping beyond its reputation as the check-in king and toward the more functional (and potentially lucrative) location-recommendation...
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Groupon Launches High-End Restaurant Reservation Service
Groupon today has launched an OpenTable-like feature called Groupon Reserve that lets consumers book restaurant tables at double-digit percentage discounts. The service will run via technology from...
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Groupon Debuts Its Own Affiliate Marketing Platform
In recent years, Groupon's been teaming up with 100,000 deals and coupon bloggers to run commission-based ads on their sites. Today, the Chicago-based company announced Groupon Partner Network (GPN),...
View ArticleWhy Post-O'Shaughnessy LivingSocial Might Not Be Dead In Its Tracks
Tim O'Shaughnessy has announced that he will step aside as CEO of LivingSocial after co-founding the company in 2007. Per O'Shaughnessy's letter posted today via the firm's blog, the struggling...
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Groupon Buys Ideeli for $43 Million
Groupon has purchased fashion discounts firm Ideeli for $43 million in cash, the companies have announced. Six-year-old Ideeli employs 150 staffers that are mostly situated in its New York...
View ArticlePriceline Buys OpenTable for $2.6 Billion
The Priceline Group has agreed to purchase restaurant digital bookings company OpenTable for $2.6 billion. It's an intriguing move by the Norwalk, Conn.-based parent firm of Priceline.com, bringing...
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Twitter Now Lets Brands Tweet Deals to Users With a New Offer Button
Twitter is rolling out a new feature that allow brands to tweet deals, which users can claim online and redeem in stores. Twitter Offers is the messaging network’s second step into e-commerce, after...
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