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 deals market as a potentially lucrative one. So it’s no surprise that PayPal wants to get in the game.
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After GroupOn snubs Google’s acquisition attempt, the search giant creates Google Offers. Will Google’s massive web presence make it a success, or will it be an embarrassing footnote in the coupon rush?
Microsoft has just launched Bing Deals, a search engine that will allow users to search for daily deals from across 200,000 offerings across 14,000 cities and towns in US. Instead of launching a daily deals site of its own, or trying to acquire one – like Google did, Microsoft approach with Bing Deals is to aggregate daily deals on offer at daily deal sites such as Groupon, Living Social and scores of other competitors.
So you want a career in social media, huh? As you all know, SocialTimes has a job board available to its readers. Some of these positions are in need of part time workers, while the rest are looking for full time help. Before applying for any type of employment, it is a good idea to understand who the company is and what they are about. Not only is this a great opportunity to show your prospective employer that you are well versed in their business, but it also serves as a purpose for your own personal benefit to make you aware of what you may be getting yourself into. Every few weeks or so, I will look into the various companies on our job board to help support your search.
Livingsocial is one of the most useful recommendation and discovery applications on Facebook and is one of the most popular applications with 5.1 million MAU. The application allows users to categorize their favorite hobbies and find new items they like, track their current favorites and share them with friends. Read more after the jump..
Digital Coupons have now outpaced printed Newspaper based coupons by 10 to 1, according to a new coupon usage report by Coupons.com. The tremendous increase in the uptake of Digital Coupons has led to an increase in the use of coupons in 2009, a first ever such increase in over 19 years.
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