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| 22.11.2024 | Neural Notes: Stop building AI startups with “the same crap” as everyone else | L-R: Pedram Mokrian (Stanford University), Aaron Batalion (Batalion Capital), Colin McLeon (University of Melbourne), and Rachael Neumann (Fly Fox Ventures). Source: SmartCompany. article-article-body
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| 15.07.2024 |
Richard Simonelli returns to CoStar after five years away | CoStar Group continues to strengthen its executive team as the “portal wars” heat up. On Thursday, the firm announced the return of former vice president of investor and public relations, Richard Simonelli, after five years away from the fi... |
| 04.08.2023 | Antler Malaysia appoints serial entrepreneur as associate partner | ManagementNews
Shadine Taufik · 8 Aug 2023 · 1 min readAntler Malaysia appoints serial entrepreneur as associate partner
Antler Malaysia country head and associate partner Frank Kang / Photo credit: Antler
VC firm Antler has appointed Frank... |
| 12.02.2019 | 25+ Valentine’s Day freebies, dining, flower and gift deals for your sweetheart | Nothing says “I love you” on Valentine’s Day like freebies and deals. Here’s a list of free offers, dining deals and savings on flowers, cards and gifts for the sweetheart in your life.
Aldi: Orchid for $9.99; 10-stem tulips for $4.89; expi... |
| 29.06.2018 | Freebie Friday: Free Frappuccinos at Starbucks, free Yankee Candles, $1 Quarter Pounders | It’s Freebie Friday!
Cool off with buy-one-get-one free Frappuccinos and espresso beverages at Starbucks Happy Hour today.
Red Robin rewards members can get free eats with purchase at the chain through Sunday.
Also, use a coupon to snag a f... |
| 30.05.2018 | Costco membership with $85 in freebies and coupons | Get $75 in freebies with purchase of a one-year Costco Wholesale Club membership for $60 from two daily-deal websites.
LivingSocial.com and Groupon.com are offering regular Gold Star memberships for $60 a year for new members (existing memb... |
| 09.03.2018 | A Look at Amazon's Acquisitions and Investments in the D.C. Area | In the race to figure out who Amazon is favoring for its second headquarters location, it's easy to rely on just two points when making the argument for the D.C. metro area: founder and CEO Jeff Bezos already owns the local newspaper, The W... |
| 29.10.2016 | M&A roundup - week ending 10/29/16 | AT&T bought Time Warner; Groupon acquired LivingSocial; Google purchased Eyefluence
The New York Times Company acquired product recommendation site The Wirecutter and its sibling, The Sweethome. No financial terms of the deal were discl... |
| 26.10.2016 | Groupon is buying LivingSocial, plans to downsize business to 15 markets from 27 | Some significant consolidation is going down in the world of daily deals — going down being the operative phrase here. Today, Groupon announced it would acquire LivingSocial, its onetime big rival that was partly owned by Amazon, for an und... |
| 23.09.2016 | Here are the Coolest Companies of 2016 | Last night at DC Fest, we crowned the winners of our 2016 Coolest Companies Competition.
It wasn’t easy picking 10 companies from the 150 finalists. What makes a company “cool?” It’s not just a cool office, or just great employee perks, or ... |
| 17.03.2016 | LivingSocial announces 160 more layoffs | D.C.’s erstwhile daily deals giant LivingSocial announced on Wednesday that it was cutting around 160 jobs. The layoffs include D.C.-based staff as well as the closure of an Arizona-based call center.
“The company will transition its custom... |
| 16.03.2016 | Local deals site LivingSocial lays off 280, over 50% of staff, outsources customer services | More bad news for LivingSocial, the beleaguered commerce platform that competes with the likes of Groupon in offering deals on events and services local to its users. Today, LivingSocial announced that it would lay off 160 employees, and ov... |
| 19.01.2016 | With Google, Facebook And Nextdoor, What’s Next For Lead Generation? | Sam Madden Contributor
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| 30.10.2015 | Amazon To Exit Daily Deals With Closure Of Amazon Local | Amazon is exiting the daily deals space. According to a message now being displayed on the Amazon Local homepage, the company’s deals platform is closing up shop on December 18, 2015. At that point, Amazon will stop selling deals via the we... |
| 14.10.2015 | LivingSocial Lays Off 200, 20% Of Staff, As It Shifts From Deals To ‘Experiences’ | Its been crunch time for daily deals sites for a while now, and today one of the bigger and older of those platforms is announcing a round of layoffs as it looks to cut costs, reorganise its operations, and push itself into profitability. L... |
| 30.06.2015 | Email marketing: How to maximize the most reliable digital channel with technology (webinar today) | Join us for this live webinar — How to navigate the email marketing landscape with executives from LivingSocial and Everything But The House — TODAY, June 30 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free.
It’s no surprise that ... |
| 30.06.2015 | Email marketing: How to maximize the most reliable digital channel with technology (webinar today) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Join us for this live webinar — How to navigate t... |
| 11.06.2015 | How to navigate the email marketing landscape [webinar] | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Join us for this live webinar — How to navigate t... |
| 11.06.2015 | How to navigate the email marketing landscape [webinar] | Join us for this live webinar — How to navigate the email marketing landscape — on Tuesday, June 30 at 10 a.m. Pacific, 1 p.m. Eastern. Register here for free.
The effectiveness of email marketing as a growth marketing channel cannot be ove... |
| 10.03.2015 | Sources: Groupon India Has Picked Up $20M From Sequoia | Daily deals and local commerce service Groupon has made no secret of its plans to explore strategic options for its holdings in Asia, and it looks like it’s not just Ticket Monster that is on the block. TechCrunch has learned that Groupon i... |
| 12.02.2015 | LivingSocial Offloads Let’s Bonus, Its Last Non-English Business [Updated] | The downsizing of LivingSocial’s international operations continues: the daily deals site has sold Let’s Bonus — and its operations in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Chile. The buyers are the company’s CEO and CFO, Juan Luis Rico and Joan Pina,... |
| 03.11.2014 | Best deal yet on iPhone 6 since release: $99, early Black Friday sale flyer leaked | James Geddes, Tech Times 03 November 2014, 07:11 pm
The Sept. 19 release of Apples new iPhones can only be classified as another success story for the company, and sales show no signs of slowing down. Demand for the phone is still high, wit... |
| 20.10.2014 | Zumur nabs $700K to become ‘the Kayak of product comparison engines’ | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Startup Zumur has its positioning metaphor down.
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| 20.10.2014 | Zumur nabs $700K to become ‘the Kayak of product comparison engines’ | Startup Zumur has its positioning metaphor down.
It wants to be “the Kayak of product comparison search engines,” CEO and founder Abhishek Tiwari told VentureBeat. The company is announcing today that it has raised the first half of what it... |
| 14.08.2014 | YC-Backed Naytev Enhances Social Media Shares To Drive Website Traffic | Digital publishers are increasingly reliant on content shared with social networks like Facebook and Twitter to drive readers to their sites. Naytev hopes to optimize the way content is shared by A/B testing headlines and images that make t... |
| 15.07.2014 | LivingSocial Poaches eBay Exec Gautam Thakar To Be Its New CEO | LivingSocial is today announcing a new CEO and president, putting to rest a question mark that has hovered over the daily deals business for the last several months. Gautam Thakar, an eBay executive who had been CEO of Shopping.com and was ... |
| 15.07.2014 | LivingSocial nabs Gautam Thakar from eBay as new CEO | LivingSocial just named Gautam Thaker as its new CEO. According to Re/code, Thaker is lined up to replace co-founder Tim O’Shaughnessy as CEO and as a director on the company’s board.
This change up shouldn’t come as a major surprise. It wa... |
| 08.07.2014 | The secret to mobile success is all about innovative ads | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SAN FRANCISCO — Anyone hoping to make a splash in mobile needs to pay special attention to their marketing tactics.
That’s according to... |
| 08.07.2014 | To Lure New Takers For Deals, LivingSocial Adds Personalized Emails, “Daily Gem” Specials | LivingSocial is today announcing some services that it hopes will help bring old users back into the fold, and to maybe bring in some new interest in the process. The daily deals site has raised nearly $1 billion but has been hit with claim... |
| 23.06.2014 | How LivingSocial baked marketing into its mobile-first approach | Mobile has the fastest adoption of any new medium ever. Companies are watching as consumption on mobile screens rapidly outpaces consumption on the desktop.
While mobile commerce is growing, it is clearly behind when compared to consumption... |
| 24.03.2014 | How Mattr Can Help Brands Learn More About Their Target Audience [VIDEO] | The video below is part of an interview series we did at SXSW 2014. Our SXSW Startup Celebration was sponsored by .CO, CEA, Revolution and LivingSocial. We thank them for their support!
In a period when the majority of us spend hours online... |
| 20.03.2014 | Jarrett Coger of Pavo Talks About the Diversity of Fashion Styles | The video below is part of an interview series we did at SXSW 2014. Our SXSW Startup Celebration was sponsored by .CO, CEA, Revolution and LivingSocial. We thank them for their support!
On some days, I like to wear skinny jeans, some vintag... |
| 19.03.2014 | Katiri Zuluaga and Springboard Enterprises Are Supporting Female-Led Startups | The video below is part of an interview series we did at SXSW 2014. Our SXSW Startup Celebration was sponsored by .CO, CEA, Revolution and LivingSocial. We thank them for their support!
It has been over 50 years since the President's Commis... |
| 05.03.2014 | Jack Dorsey-backed Peek raises $5M, plans Latin America launch for 2014 | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Peek wants to be the Open Table of events and tou... |
| 05.03.2014 | Jack Dorsey-backed Peek raises $5M, plans Latin America launch for 2014 | Peek wants to be the Open Table of events and tours. It just raised $5 million from investors like StubHub cofounder Jeff Fluhr and Orbitz board member Brad Gerstner to make that happen.
Peek’s new funding round will help it expand its book... |
| 10.01.2014 | LivingSocial's business is in the toilet, and its CEO flushes out | LivingSocial just can’t catch a break, but maybe a new CEO can help pull the struggling business out of the toilet.
Today, the daily deal site’s cofounder and CEO, Tom O’Shaughnessy, announced that he is stepping down. He is the third of Li... |
| 10.01.2014 | LivingSocial CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy Is Leaving | Tim O’Shaughnessy is peacing out. (Twitter)
After a string of bad news for the company, it looks like the cofounder and CEO of LivingSocial is jumping ship.
Tim O’Shaughnessy, head of the daily deals site that brings you fabulous discounts ... |
| 15.11.2013 | Zulily $253M IPO is a ‘watershed moment’ for e-commerce | E-commerce startup Zulily smashed analyst estimates with its initial public offering, with shares soaring 88 percent in its debut.
Zulily’s shares opened this morning at $39, above the IPO price of $22. The Seattle-based company raised $253... |
| 14.11.2013 | LivingSocial’s Tim O’Shaughnessy: We’re still a giant startup. We don’t have everything figured out yet. | Not only is Tim O’Shaughnessy anti-breakfast, he’s against the traditional take on whether a startup is, or will be, successful. Metrics like capital raised and number of employees hired shouldn’t be the only focus, the LivingSocial CEO and... |
| 16.09.2013 | In The Money: Grotech CFO Explains Firm's Investment Strategy, Success | It's displayed all over Grotech Ventures' website: "Early investors in high-potential technology companies," the investment firm's strategy. And it's a successful one, evidenced by Grotech's being named the second highest performi... |
| 31.05.2013 | Why Programming Is The Core Skill Of The 21st Century | In the 20th Century, meaningful education was all about learning your ABCs. Today, it’s centered on Alphas, Betas and C++.
Programming skills are becoming ever more important, quickly turning into the core competency for all kinds of 21st C... |
| 12.05.2013 | Five Woot Execs Check Out, As Daily Deals Site Feels The Strain Under Owner Amazon | Woot, the daily deals site that Amazon bought in 2010 for $110 million, built a reputation for its “pile ’em high, sell ’em cheap” business model for shifting goods. Now, the company is facing up to a shift of a different kind: that of its ... |
| 27.04.2013 | Why LivingSocial’s 50-million password breach is graver than you may think | Rossographer reader comments 142 with 85 posters participating, including story author
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| 26.04.2013 | LivingSocial hacked, company suspects 50M accounts affected | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Daily deals company LivingSocial is sending out a... |
| 26.04.2013 | Amazon Led LivingSocial’s Last Round With A $56M Investment; Daily Deals Site Had A Net Loss Of $50M This Past Quarter | Daily deals company LivingSocial continues to face challenges in the market. In the last quarter it posted sales of $135 million, up 23% on a year ago, but it also swung to a net loss of $50 million, from net income of $156 million in Q1 20... |
| 07.04.2013 | Eateria Provides Small Restaurants With Bountiful Opportunities | For small restaurants, cooking fantastic food on a regular basis is difficult, but trying to fill seats and retain customers is a whole different issue. Many of these restaurants are cornerstones of communities, and Ola Ayeni, founder of Ea... |
| 29.03.2013 | LivingSocial Co-Founder And CTO Aaron Batalion To Leave The Company | Aaron Batalion, the co-founder and CTO of daily deals site LivingSocial, is leaving the company. He announced his departure in a post on his personal blog published Friday afternoon.
Here is the full text of his blog post:
“Moving on to new... |
| 26.03.2013 | How I sold a record 1,500 deals on LivingSocial | A Darwin-based entrepreneur has offered start-ups some key tips for group buying campaigns, after her business attracted a record number of deals on daily deals website LivingSocial.
Rachel Beaumont and her husband David started Darwin Harb... |
| 21.02.2013 | LivingSocial CEO Provides More Details On $110M Funding Round, Company Now Valued At About $1.5B | More details have emerged about LivingSocial‘s new $110 million funding round announced yesterday. In response to a blog post characterizing the raise as an emergency round of debt financing, LivingSocial CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy issued a new ... |
| 20.02.2013 | LivingSocial investors pump another $110M into the ailing deals service | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Think the group-coupon craze is nearing the end o... |
| 20.02.2013 | LivingSocial Raises $110M, Reports Say | According to Reuters (read here) LivingSocial, a daily deal company, raised $110m in a new round of financing.
Reuters said that CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy wrote it in a memo to employees today. Backers included unnamed existing investors (among... |
| 20.02.2013 | Daily Deals Site LivingSocial Raises Another $110 Million | Daily deals might be out of fashion, but that hasn’t stopped at least one company in the space from being able to attract more venture investment. Apparently LivingSocial sent a memo to employees this morning, announcing that it has raised ... |
| 20.02.2013 | LivingSocial investors pump another $110M into the ailing deals service | Think the group-coupon craze is nearing the end of its life cycle? Tell that to LivingSocial’s investors, who just sunk another $110 million into the online deals service.
The funding news comes from an email that was first obtained by the ... |
| 06.02.2013 | Made To Order: Big Moves In Online Food Delivery | Thanks to your smartphone, we spend arguably almost every waking moment online. And the past few years have taught retailers and consumers the value of e-commerce on these multi-function devices. But are we missing something? Is this platfo... |
| 17.01.2013 | Healthcare social networking, gaming startup backed by Cigna raises $21 million | The company is led by Grant Verstandig, a 23-year-old entrepreneur named to Forbes annual 30 under 30 list, has trained as a research fellow with the National Cancer Institute. He recruited the former head of the National Cancer Institute, ... |
| 29.11.2012 | LivingSocial Confirms Layoffs: 400, All But A Couple Dozen In The U.S., 10% Of Workforce | It’s not only Groupon that is feeling the crunch among daily deal sites: LivingSocial is laying off 400 employees today. There were reports of the layoffs out yesterday from more than one source; the company confirmed the number to TechCrun... |
| 05.11.2012 | Is OffersBy.Me Better Than Groupon? Probably (Especially If You Are A Business) | Adam Goldberg did quite a bit of research before soft-launching OffersBy.me last spring. The ex-Oracle, ex-Google entrepreneur and ClearSaleing co-founder knows a thing or two about ad analytics and has taken this experience with him in his... |
| 18.10.2012 | CodeNow, the nonprofit that teaches inner city kids to code, lands in San Francisco | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
It only took a few months for Wilfred, a teen fro... |
| 04.09.2012 | DC’s startup scene: Entrepreneurship blooms in our nation’s capital | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Washington, D.C. is known for many things, but st... |
| 04.09.2012 | DC’s startup scene: Entrepreneurship blooms in our nation’s capital | Washington, D.C. is known for many things, but startups are not one of them.
It is the center of the United States’ government, a nexus for political figures from around the world, and a hub for nonprofit, security, and healthcare enterpris... |
| 27.08.2012 | Delivery Hero heats up global service with new $50M | To stay competitive with rival, Just-Eat, Delivery Hero plans to manke more global acquisitions
Nobody collects drawer full of takeout menus anymore, now we look to Yelp and online services to organize the restaurants in our area offering d... |
| 15.08.2012 | How Airline-Style Yield Management Could Save Daily Deal Sites | For businesses that have tapped into social media to find more customers and instead have found a lot of pain, a new twist on an old business concept may bring them what they really need for social media deals: control.
The concept is known... |
| 08.08.2012 | Top 5 American cities for startups | Below, we’ve curated a list for you of surprising and not-so-surprising locales where you might consider putting down startup roots. Our method? Looking at city tax breaks for small businesses, government programs, talent pools, culture, an... |
| 08.08.2012 | Top 5 American cities for startups | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 16.07.2012 | ReadWriteWeb DeathWatch: Groupon | When you finally turn a profit and investors simultaneously dump your stock to an all-time low, you have a problem. Groupon is the king of local couponing, but is its deal already as sweet as it can get? The Basics
Groupon wasn’t the first ... |
| 24.05.2012 | LivingSocial attempts a more hands-on approach to local commerce | In its latest experiment in local commerce, LivingSocial is getting hands on with a new events space in downtown DC. Called 918 F, the space hosts a variety of events including cooking classes, zumba sessions, pop-up restaurants, and painti... |
| 30.04.2012 | UK-based Just-Eat bags $64M for food delivery service | Vitruvian Partners leads third round of funding as Just-Eat exceeds $90M in revenue
UK-based online food ordering site, Just-Eat, has picked up its third round of funding despite the continued concerns over the recession in Europe -- not ba... |
| 19.04.2012 | Ahead of IPO, Zuckerberg’s Independent Streak Rattles Would-Be Investors | For Silicon Valley innovators and tech workers, the Wall Street Journal article with all the inside details of Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram is, by and large, fodder for fantasy. But on the other coast, where investors and ... |
| 30.03.2012 | LivingSocial Instant flops, co-founder exits | In two big twists, LivingSocial said so long to its “Instant” deals product and its co-founder on the same day.
The number-two deals service aborted its location-based Instant deals product and replaced it with a food takeout and delivery o... |
| 30.03.2012 | LivingSocial Instant flops, co-founder exits | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In two big twists, LivingSocial said so long to i... |
| 27.03.2012 | Claiming Legality, EveryLodge Launches A Flash Sales Aggregator For Hotel Deals | EveryLodge is a new startup that aims to at least partially fill the void left by the closure of sample sale aggregator MyNines last year. Like MyNines, EveryLodge also aggregates the ongoing flash sales from across the web for shoppers’ co... |
| 23.01.2012 | WhaleShark Media seeks to dominate the deal industry | |
| 19.01.2012 | Look out Groupon: Nearly 800 daily deals sites folded in the past 6 months | Watch your backs Groupon and LivingSocial. A new report suggests daily deals sites are loosing steam quickly, with 798 daily deal sites worldwide shutting down in the second half of 2011.
Even since before Groupon went public in November, a... |
| 01.01.2012 | Uber’s New Year’s Eve Surcharges Demonstrate The Harsh Reality Of Dynamic Pricing | Editor’s note: TechCrunch contributor Semil Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Internet, and social networks. Shah currently works at Votizen and is based in Palo Alto; you can follow him on twitter @semil
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| 20.12.2011 | Tech start-ups urged to get Under the Radar | Aussie tech start-ups are being encouraged to apply for start-up event Under the Radar, held in the US, which led to acquisitions from the likes of eBay, IBM and Facebook in 2011.
Under the Radar is regarded as one of the most important sho... |
| 07.12.2011 | Does $176M funding mean Living Social IPO is off? | Some wonder whether Groupon's woes have given Living Social a case of IPO cold feet
Daily deals site Living Social may be backing off its IPO aspirations, heeding the somewhat less than stellar public offering of its rival Groupon, which Va... |
| 07.12.2011 | Forget An IPO For Now, LivingSocial Raises Another $176 Million. Total Could Reach $400 Million. | In a sign that it may be pushing off an IPO after Groupon’s lackluster performance, rival LivingSocial has raised $176 million in a new round of funding, according to a new SEC filing. Reports of the new funding first surfaced in the New Yo... |
| 02.12.2011 | “LivingSocial Plus”: A Monthly Subscription Model That Could Improve Deal Site Retention | In an effort to get customers buying pre-paid deals more regularly, LivingSocial has launched a new subscription service called “LivingSocial Plus”. For $20 a month, members get $25 in “Deal Bucks” credits that are automatically applied to ... |
| 22.11.2011 | 5 must-have apps for holiday shopping | COMMENTARY Maybe you're one of the people who avert their eyes when passing holiday displays that are up before Thanksgiving. However, Black Friday is again around the corner. If you're going to shop -- and you know you probably have to -- ... |
| 19.11.2011 | Report: LivingSocial is raising $200 million at a $5 billion valuation | Groupon has already taken the public markets by storm, with the Chicago-based daily deal site posting a massive $16 billion market value just a few days after its IPO.
Now, Groupon rival LivingSocial is getting ready to announce a massive $... |
| 18.11.2011 | LivingSocial set to raise almost $200M at $5B valuation | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Daily deals site LivingSocial is close to raising... |
| 15.11.2011 | LivingSocial Now Testing Food Delivery & “Room Service” | LivingSocial is now testing a new food ordering and delivery service as a part of LivingSocial Instant, the company announced this morning. At launch, members in the Washington D.C. area can order food from select area restaurants and have ... |
| 15.11.2011 | LivingSocial launches food delivery service for D.C. | LivingSocial Instant users can have their culinary daily deals brought to their homes or offices
Online daily deal service LivingSocial announced a new food ordering feature to their LivingSocial Instant Tuesday. The food ordering service i... |
| 04.11.2011 | DailyDeals.com: Do We Really Need Another Daily Deals Site? | DailyDeals.com offers a slightly new twist on the increasingly played out daily deals concept, offering consumers discounts from online-only vendors like Zazzle.com and Novica.com. DailyDeals.com’s CEO Steve Schaffer wants to take advantage... |
| 04.11.2011 | Groupon’s IPO Is Not Made of Golden Fertilizer | Andrew Mason is the modern-day, cool-kid, blinged-out CEO that every American with a half-baked Internet marketing scheme secretly dreams of becoming. Today, his company became, on paper, worth roughly $12.7 billion.
Groupon’s shares starte... |
| 03.11.2011 | Google Offers Launches Android App | Today Google announced an Android app for Google Offers, its daily deal site. This new app notifies you of offers that match your interests. You can purchase them quickly from your Android phone.
This is another step forward in the mobile d... |
| 31.10.2011 | LivingSocial’s North American Expansion Brings Deals To 20 New Markets | Daily deal outfit LivingSocial has just announced an expansion to 20 additional markets in North America, mainly U.S. cities, plus one town in Ontario, Canada. In some cases, the new cities are getting access to LivingSocial’s core Daily De... |
| 26.10.2011 | Local Recommendations App Alfred Now Does Group Recommendations | Clever Sense’s local recommendations app Alfred was already doing a great job suggesting restaurants, coffee shops, bars and nightclubs using its artificial intelligence-based system. But today, it’s going to do something even more extraord... |
| 18.10.2011 | Clear Channel And LivingSocial Team Up To Bring Daily Deals To Radio | Media company Clear Channel Radio and daily deals service LivingSocial are today announcing an agreement that names LivingSocial as the sole daily deal provider for over 500 Clear Channel-owned radio stations across 90 cities in the U.S. Th... |
| 07.10.2011 | LivingSocial Issues $143 Million In Stock For TicketMonster Deal | LivingSocial is busily expanding its daily deal footprint both in the U.S. and abroad. According to a new SEC filing, LivingSocial issued $143 million in stock as part of a “business combination transaction, such as a merger, acquisition or... |
| 29.09.2011 | Tippr’s Federal Patent Lawsuit: 14 Daily Deals Players Targeted, Now All Quietly Settled | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It’s been a wild few months for companies peddling daily deals. As market leader Groupon faces criticism for its accounting and turmoil in its executive ranks, bigger competit... |
| 28.09.2011 | Signpost’s sales force to rival Groupon by 2012 (exclusive) | Daily deals service Signpost is growing its sales force at a rapid pace that could surpass competitors like Groupon and LivingSocial by the end of the year, the company’s CEO Stuart Wall told VentureBeat.
Signpost employs local contractors,... |
| 28.09.2011 | Signpost’s sales force to rival Groupon by 2012 (exclusive) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Daily deals service Signpost is growing its sales... |
| 22.09.2011 | LivingSocial may take $200M round instead of filing an IPO | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Daily online deals startup LivingSocial might del... |
| 22.09.2011 | LivingSocial may take $200M round instead of filing an IPO | Daily online deals startup LivingSocial might delay filing its initial public offering in favor of a new $200 million funding round, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter.
The fact that both Livin... |
| 16.09.2011 | Online shoppers have unhealthy eating habits | LivingSocial's "Dining Out" survey polls people who shop online and finds out how and where they eat
Online shoppers are pretty unhealthy eaters, according to survey data released by LivingSocial. The LivingSocial “Dining Out” sur... |
| 13.09.2011 | LivingSocial offers 50 percent off Whole Foods gift card | Daily deals startup LivingSocial is partnering with high-end grocery store Whole Foods today. The companies are offering a $10 voucher for a $20 Whole Foods gift card.
This is the first time LivingSocial has offered a deal from a nationwide... |
| 13.09.2011 | Subscribers snap up LivingSocial's Whole Foods deal | LivingSocial has already sold 600,000+ deals for Whole Foods groceries
LivingSocial is making waves again with another big nationwide deal. This time, the company has partnered with Whole Foods to offer a 50% off deal: $10 for $20 worth of ... |
| 13.09.2011 | LivingSocial offers 50 percent off Whole Foods gift card | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Daily deals startup LivingSocial is partnering wi... |
| 11.09.2011 | Report: Groupon Grew Its Revenues 13% In August, Gained 2% Marketshare | In light of reports that the company was canceling its investor roadshow and postponing its IPO, daily deals aggregator Yipit has some positive information about Groupon’s trajectory in August, namely that it had a banner month revenue-wise... |
