During today's analyst conference call for Groupon's third-quarter earnings, CEO Andrew Mason mentioned a new feature that's being tested in a couple of cities. Now, if you look at the deal listings in New York and Chicago, you'll see a box allowing you to search for specific types of deals, i.e. "pizza" or "lunch." Adding site search capabilities might not ... Read more
Groupon the daily deals site with ambitions to become the go-to platform for all local commerce is continuing to expand its mobile offerings to meet that goal. The company today is launching a new ver... Read more
Google Offers just finished its first month. Google has been testing its Groupon compete in Portland and I’ve been closely tracking the results.
Doing a head-to-head comparison like this is a b... Read more
The way TripThirsty works is very simple - start creating wishlists of places you want to visit and once a place is wishlisted, TripThirsty's deal search engines go to work. That is, if multiple peopl... Read more
Google continues its plodding march into the local deals space. They`ve just acquired The Dealmap, which aggregates local offers and displays them on a Google-powered map. This makes a natural, almost... Read more
Amazon.com announced today that Kindle and Kindle 3G with Special Offers customers will receive AmazonLocal offers on their screensavers when they are not reading.
This turns the e-reader into a han... Read more
Daily deal sites, by and large, seem like they’re here to stay, much to Rocky Agrawal’s chagrin, surely. Whether or not you agree with Rocky’s flurry of posts last month about Group... Read more
Groupon seeks to go public in October or November, people familiar with the matter told the New York Times on Wednesday, a week after the daily deals website put its IPO on hold for a few weeks as it ... Read more
LivingSocial is still less than half the size of Groupon in terms of gross revenue, but in September it grew five times as fast largely thanks to one deal: Whole Foods. According to new data from dai... Read more