A lot’s happened in the Daily Deal space since our last roundup.  Virgin is launching a Daily Deals, while Virgin America launched its new Chicago routes with Groupon. The NYT is launching a deal site too, and you won’t believe who’ll be showing up at the Oscar’s this Sunday! Here’s your Friday round-up: The Grey [...]

A lot’s happened in the Daily Deal space since our last roundup.  Virgin is launching a Daily Deals, while Virgin America launched its new Chicago routes with Groupon. The NYT is launching a deal site too, and you won’t believe who’ll be showing up at the Oscar’s this Sunday! Here’s your Friday round-up: The Grey [...]

Google may be entering the Daily Deal space later this year. The company plans to launch “Google Offers” to compete with Groupon and LivingSocial, emailing users a local deal-of-the-day every day.  The service will be fully integrated into other of the company’s services (Checkout, Reader, Buzz). Google is also working on a way for consumers [...]

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 announced Check-in Offers, which will be rolled out later this month. Similar to Facebook Deals and Foursquare Specials, Yelp wants to [...]

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, DealSwarm, this past Tuesday. DealSwarm will act as both an independent Daily Deal service and as a white label product to [...]

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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 industry.  Here’s your Friday roundup: Benz sold 200 Smart Cars on Chinese Daily Deal site Taobao in less [...]

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 either love or completely ignore, has launched their own daily deal site, Valpak Deals. In an interesting move, the [...]

Exciting week in Daily Deals as geographic expansion, verticalization and publisher entrance continues. Even Wall Street has started to pay attention. Here’s your Friday Roundup: TravelZoo (TZOO) saw a big bump in share price and OpenTable (OPEN) was upgraded by Merrill Lynch, both as a result of their introducing Daily Deal products. This has led [...]

LivingSocial deals are now hyperlocal in two cities, Microsoft launched a Daily Deal service in Australia, and Yelp is still tasting sweet victory from its first Daily Deal in San Francisco.  Here’s your Friday roundup: We reported on Wednesday that Yelp outperformed Groupon with its first Daily Deal in San Francisco.  It’s a good sign [...]