Groupon is running an extremely popular deal today for 50% off at American Apparel. The only catch: it's in-store only. That's usually a given for restaurant and spa deals, but many prefer to shop for apparel … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: Yelp Announces Check-In Offers, Facebook Launches Deals, Groupon Goes Self-Serve
Since our last roundup, Facebook launched its deals product, Groupon launched a self-serve platform, and Yelp announced Check-in offers. It's Friday, and this space is out of control. Time to round it up: Yelp … [Read more...]
Groupon Releases Pricing For Self-Serve Product
Over the weekend, we learned Groupon is quietly testing a new self-serve offering, with potentially major implications to the future of the company. Today, we found full details on the program in a welcome page to … [Read more...]
Groupon Reveals Its Future Lies In Self-Serve
Update: this post was picked up by Mashable, Business Insider, Screenwerk and was the top story on Techmeme on October 24, 2010. Update: full details of the program are available here. Groupon is quietly testing a … [Read more...]
LivingSocial Buys Urban Adventures, Cox Media Group Enters
In the last two weeks, more publishers popped onto the scene, LivingSocial made an acquisition, and we got some publicity on CNN! Here's your Friday Roundup: Cox Media Group launched their Daily Deal product, … [Read more...]
DailyD Raises $5 Million to Focus on Family Vertical
Family focused Daily Deals service, DailyD raised $5 million according to a southern California news site and their SEC filing yesterday. DailyD's chairman is LowerMyBills.com founder Matt Coffin - he sold the company … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: Yahoo may buy Groupon, AOL to WOW the rest
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We're Hiring a Developer
One of the exciting things about adding more users and implementing new features is that at some point, you also need to add more team members to make the site even better. Building up a team is one of the great … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: Groupon Babies, Smart Cars Sell, OpenTable's Success
It's been quite a week in the Daily Deal space. Groupon wants to see the children it produces, a Chinese site has an incredibly successful car deal, and OpenTable gains serious traction in the restaurant Daily Deal … [Read more...]
Friday Roundup: Everybody Launch!
Seemingly everyone launched new daily deal sites or expanded their scope this week. It's a crazy industry out there, let's round it up: Valpak, the company that sends those blue envelopes full of coupons that you … [Read more...]