Groupon reported its fourth quarter 2012 earnings today almost exactly where analysts had expected: with $638 million in revenue, up 30 percent over last year.
The problem was that analysts wanted a profit.
E-commerce startup Wayfair introduces Daily Fair, a new flash sale feature that offers large discounts on home goods, if you are willing to act fast.
Remember Pets.com?
The online marketplace for pet food, pet toys, and everything but the pets themselves pulled in hundreds of millions of dollars of venture capital in 1988, IPO’d in 2000, bought a Super Bowl ad in January of that …
File this in the what-will-they-think-of-next category.
Imagine you’re a recruiter or a hiring manager in a growing company. Every morning you get a daily deal email…but it’s not for a half-price massage or $5 off a $10 purchase at your …
Daily deals sites Groupon and LivingSocial can be a big help to local businesses, or a major pain. Success rates vary, to put it delicately, and the sites (there are now more than 350 of them already) have love/hate polarizing …
Group discount site LivingSocial has authorized the sale of shares to raise up to $565 million in its fifth round of funding, according to a state filing discovered by VCExperts.com.
Lots of small, local businesses have inventory they can afford …
It’s official: Groupon makes a ridiculous amount of money. In fact, it makes more than enough to reject Google’s offer, worth somewhere between $5 billion and $6 billion, to buy the daily-deal company.
Groupon has reportedly called off the massive …
Hot off the heels of an oft-criticized $700 million acquisition of flight-data provider ITA, search giant Google might now end up purchasing daily-deal provider Groupon for $5.3 billion, according to a report by AllThingsD. That comes just after reports of …
Apparently, there’s still money to be made in text messaging. ReplyBuy, a startup launching today that uses text messaging to deliver Groupon-like daily deals, is a perfect example of just how much life the technology has left.
Backed by a …
