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Want to reach the young, smart and affluent with your daily deal offering? Then use LivingSocial instead of Groupon. According to a survey* by Nielsen Co., LivingSocial buyers are 49 percent more likely than the average American to...
Too often, merchants forget that shopping cart abandonment is not the end of the line. In fact, it can be a very small stumbling block toward an increase in sales. That's what Dungarees has discovered. In just 30 days, and using...
Last week Offers.com announced the debut of its Local City Deals at the Daily Deals Summit in New York City. Does the Web need an aggregation service for daily deals? Offers.com apparently believes so, but consumers will most definitely...
A new partnership with daily deals aggregator The Dealmap is the springboard for Microsoft’s entry into the explosive local-buying space. Called Bing Deals, the new service will deliver discounted local deals and coupons through...
There may be an option for anyone who has been following Groupon’s amazing growth the past two years but was afraid to test the market because of the scores of clone companies cluttering the daily deals space. Now there appears...
Group coupon buying has overrun the Internet. A $6 billion buyout offer of Groupon.com from Google should be enough evidence of that. Now, Groupon is getting hit from all sides. LivingSocial has turned up the heat , Yelp.com has introduced...
UPDATE : Looks like Google is about to get in on the game, too. This fact sheet uncovers Google Offers . That didn't take long, after Groupon famously rebuffed Google's $6 billion buyout offer. In one swift motion, LivingSocial...
Daily deal powerhouse Groupon announced that it has completed a $950 million round of financing (after its recent rebuff of a Google buyout). Groupon will reportedly use the funds to invest in technology, provide liquidity for employees...
A website and application performance monitoring firm tested 11 leading social shopping and daily deals sites for availability and performance during the height of the 2010 holiday shopping season. The companies tested by Watchmouse...
Google, after Groupon famously shunned their advances -- and $6 billion -- is desperately seeking a local deals site, mostly for the local ad revenue it can provide. A New York Post insider is reporting that Google is in talks with...
Sure, by now you've likely heard the news that Google has failed in its bid to buy Groupon. Apparently, $6 billion just wasn't enough. It's also come out that Yahoo was interested in purchasing Groupon, too. In the end...
Let's put all the Google buyout rumors aside for just a moment and focus on actual Groupon news. Then we'll dig into why Groupon will not be selling to Google. Groupon is launching two new initiatives and they are nothing short...
The local deals space just got a lot more congested due to some big announcements from Facebook. The launch of Facebook Deals and the effect it will have on Facebook Places creates new challenges for coupon providers such as Groupon...
Anyone on the Groupon-watch the past two months knows that the enormously successful daily deals pioneer has received some recent criticism from merchant partners. Mostly because their small businesses are often overrun by stampeding...
While recent reports have indicated that some merchants may be tiring of the daily deals craze, the online shopping phenomenon created by Groupon remains a favorite of consumers. The hugely successful model has also spawned dozens...
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