Articles Tagged - dailydeals

By Mary Manzo, Posted in In the News

After decreasing their valuation from $30 billion to a range of $10.1 billion - $11.4 billion, can Groupon woo enough investors to raise their target of $480 million to $600 million after their IPO? Groupon will go public with their first public share offering on November 4. The question that everyone probably has on their mind is if the Groupon business model is even sustainable?  Late this past September, Groupon COO Margo Georgiadis actually left the company to return to her former employer, Googl... read more.

• October 25, 2011
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By Mary Manzo, Posted in Blogging

Since the dawn of the first daily deal services in 2010, the market for social buying has quickly grown. But is it fading just as fast? After just four months of testing, Facebook recently abandoned their “Deals” venture. And today Yelp announced that the site is also withdrawing from Yelp Deals. The oversaturated marketplace for online deals and coupons plus the growing complaints from customers that they are inundated and bored with too many offers may be a recipe for disaster. Groupon ann... read more.

• August 30, 2011
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By Zack Levine, Posted in Foursquare

The rumors are true: according to Mashable, Foursquare and Groupon have decided to strike a partnership. The two popular young companies have reached an agreement that will put Groupon's daily deals in the Explore tab of the Foursqaure application beginning Friday. Groupon becomes Foursquare's sixth and largest daily deals partner. The two companies will split an undisclosed amount of revenue generated by purchases of each deal. The deal, on paper, looks like a win for each side. Groupon, the fastest-gr... read more.

• July 29, 2011
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By Rania Eldekki, Posted in The Future of the Internet

The popularity of deal sites is on the rise, with more and more daily deal sites being created every day. This daily deal infographic* takes a closer look at the top deal of the day websites so you can see for yourself how Living Social, Groupon, Facebook Deals & Google Offers compare. (*Scroll down to view the infographic) Here's a breakdown of the facts listed in the daily deals infographic: Company Founded In: Living Social: 2007Groupon: 2008Facebook Deals: 2011Google Offers: 2011 Reven... read more.

• May 31, 2011
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