Posts Tagged ‘groupon’

Groupon, the easiest way to get a massage at 50% off, has purchased Campfire Labs, according to a TechCrunch report from yesterday.  The surprise is that Campfire labs still hadn’t launched.  Groupon picked them up based on their early demos, apparently, and their service seemed to be some sort of social shopping enhancement service, which [...]

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PayPal, owned by eBay, is going head to head with Groupon and LivingSocial by unveiling a plan to offer coupons to its massive base of 103 million users.  With Groupon recently having gone public and hovering a little under it’s IPO price of $25 and holding a market cap of $15B, investors see the daily [...]

IPO mania is sweeping through the social media world. It’s time for you to take a close look at these companies and weed out the non-hackers!

Have you seen the trailer for Groupon, the Movie?  It’s a comedy video made by Emily McGregor from the comedy group Comediva, and definitely strikes the right note about the addictive quality of Groupons.  I’m sure all of you out there know somebody who’s obsessed with storing up Groupons like a squirrel packing nuts for [...]

It’s all about the money … but the payday is going to someone you’re forgetting!

It doesn’t matter that we’re coming up on the end of Q4. There’s A LOT happening in the social media IPO market right now! Check out these 10 companies:

Groupon, one of the largest Internet daily-deal sites, is under investigation by Britain’s competition regulator. The regulator is inspecting the possibility of unfair promotions and exaggerated savings. No surprise here because the U.K. Office of Fair Trading started looking into Groupon’s British unit last July. The investigation recently expanded due to the fact that the [...]

Find out what Toronto Business Owner Zane Caplansky says about his experience with deal-of-the-day website Groupon.

The one you want is still a while off, but there’s plenty of action for you to drool over

Here’s the reason why everyone wants in on the “sideshow”.