SavingStar, which collects your coupon savings across multiple grocery stores and gives them to you as a lump sum, got a lump sum of its own today: A $9.1 million fourth round of funding.
As part of then new funding, …
"It's a way better deal than Groupon," Kim said. "Also, advertisers can track this."
Think the group-coupon craze is nearing the end of its life cycle? Tell that to LivingSocial's investors.
For intrepid deal hunters, there's nothing better than finding the perfect coupon code right before you click "Buy."
Facebook will soon start charging merchants to run Offers as a way to earn more revenue at a time it desperately needs it.
Google has laid off a larger number of staff – some of them in senior positions -- mainly in the areas of sales and marketing.
While the usefulness of the location sharing app Foursquare may be dubious, one thing is certain: the company has so far lacked a real revenue source.
So it’s not at all surprising (and in fact a bit heartening) to learn …
Coupon-junkies can soon skip the newspaper and instead get their fix from the News Feed — no manual clipping required.
Facebook has partially turned on its Offers program, a new initiative that lets brands and businesses disperse discounts and promotions …
Since nearly everyone has a smartphone these days, retailers have flocked to mobile coupon services to do away with hard-to-track paper coupons. Koupon Media just closed a $4.5 million round of funding to offer mobile coupons and analytics tracking.
There …
Yowza, a mobile coupon startup, secured $1.5 million in its first round of funding, founder Greg Grunberg (a.k.a. the actor who played Matt Parkman on NBC TV show Heroes) told VentureBeat in an interview today.
Yowza is a mobile …
Group buying services have grown explosively over the last few years. Groupon, LivingSocial, Yipit, Foursquare and even Google have jumped into the suddenly hot arena of offering consumers discounts on local merchants’ products and services.
Yet another new player has …
Online coupon startup WhaleShark Media has raised a $150 million round of funding, the company announced today.
WhaleShark Media owns a number of online coupon sites, such as RetailMeNot, VoucherCodes.co.uk and Deals.com, covering deals on a wide range of purchases, …
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I have long criticized Groupon’s accounting practices. As someone who has watched the company closely since the it first filed the paperwork to go public (now scheduled for November 4), I have seen how it has continually adjusted its S-1, …
Coupons.com may have raised $30 million just a few weeks ago, but CouponCabin has leapfrogged that with a whopping $54 million first round of funding, with the goal of expanding its offerings and the number of merchants it works with.…
The largest provider of digital coupons, Coupons.com has nabbed $30 million of funding from Greylock Partners, the company announced today.
Unlike group daily deal services like Groupon, Coupons.com is focused on being a digital extension of the coupons that typically …
Google has acquired German Groupon-like deals site DailyDeal, according to a homepage message from DailyDeal. Google has not confirmed the acquisition nor have terms of the deal been disclosed.
Google has been off to a somewhat slow start with its …
I hate those printed coupons that come along with my grocery receipts. They’re too easy to forget or lose and too hard to redeem. I also hate loyalty cards, mail-in rebates, and all the other tricks that retailers use to …
Google had launched its Offers service in five more cities — Austin, Boston, Washington D.C., Denver and Seattle, the company said today.
The Google Offers service, which sends Groupon-like daily deals to your email box, launched in June in Portland …
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With Groupon clones lining the digital streets like “GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS” signs in the seedy parts of Reno, you’d think the model was an easy one to replicate.
Facebook did it; Yelp did it; now Google is doing it. But …
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Every morning, somewhere between 4 and 6 a.m., my inbox is assaulted by daily deal emails. This morning I fought back, feeling a sense of accomplishment as I deleted my last offer: 50 percent off a Brazilian Wax. Sound familiar? …
