Posted September 19, 2012, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Daily deals specialist Groupon has entered the mobile payment game with hopes to gain market share by undercutting the competition. The new service, Groupon Payments, is built into the latest version of the Groupon Merchants app for the iPhone and…
Posted November 4, 2011, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, The Web
Groupon has raised $700 million in its initial public offering and is currently trading much higher than the original $20 per share asking price. The daily deals company managed to sell 35 million shares at $20 each, thus becoming the…
Posted October 12, 2011, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
Groupon’s initial public offering (IPO) is expected to be much lower than originally anticipated earlier this year. Analysts now believe the company will be valued between $5 billion and $10 billion when shares are offered on the open market, according…
Posted April 26, 2011, 10:26 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web, Industry News
Hot on the heels of the Google Offers beta launch Facebook has revealed it is also jumping into the local deals frenzy that made Groupon a multibillion-dollar company. Appropriately named Facebook Deals, the new feature is launching in Austin, Atlanta,…
Posted April 22, 2011, 11:57 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in The Web
Unable to takeover Groupon after the latter rejected its $6 billion offer, Google has opted to start from scratch with its own daily deals-giving service. Google Offers is initially rolling out in Portland, New York, and San Francisco, where it…
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