Google had its first $50 billion year in 2012. With its massive investments in mobile, someday it might make that much just on the little plastic and metal devices we carry in our pockets. Here's how.
Deal or no deal? Google is giving out free and discounted access to Boingo Wi-Fi at eight malls and 16 airports to raise the profile of its Google Offers service.
With the cost of living in New York City constantly increasing, New Yorkers have come to appreciate anything that’s free. And Wi-Fi provider Boingo‘s latest deal has it working with Google Offers to bring free Wi-Fi to New York City’s …
Google has launched a new stand-alone iPhone app for its Offers daily deals service, the company announced today in a blog post.
While Google Offers may not have caught on as big as Groupon or LivingSocial, the service continues to …
Groupon is changing its payment terms with merchants, according to several sources familiar with Groupon's business and contracts. The company has traditionally used two different payment models. In the United States and Canada, merchants have been paid in three installments.
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People frequently ask me about how LivingSocial and Google Offers are different from Groupon.
In many ways, they are the same. Any model that gives businesses cash early on in exchange for a promise of service to be delivered later …
Google announced Wednesday that Offers, its daily deal arm, is getting new deal partners and is rolling out its service in Austin, Houston, Philadelphia, and Miami.
It sure feels like the daily deal space is crowded these days. Groupon and …
Google recently revealed its social network Google+ will support check-ins for businesses providing discounts through their Google Places page. Today, the capability was launched, but only through the Google+ Android application.
The social network is purposefully getting outfitted with as …
Update: A Google spokesperson confirmed to VentureBeat that location-based deals will be coming to Google+ next week:
“While prepping for a test of a new check-in offer feature, we published a support center article a little early and have since …
Google Offers may have bitten off more than it can chew with its Cyber Monday deal from Newegg.com, a site popular with techies for computing equipment and other electronics.
The deal, $20 for $40 worth of Newegg credit (it’s now …
Google released a new Android app for its Google Offers service, the company announced today.
The free mobile application, which is available now in the Android Market, helps people take advantage of deals offered through the service while on the …
Google Offers is expanding its selection to include a number of new partners, Google announced today in an official blog post.
There are two ways to run a deals business. You can build a dedicated sales force and seek out …
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 …
Google’s mobile payment strategy is just getting started, but that doesn’t faze Stephanie Tilenius, the company’s vice president of commerce.
“There’s going to be a ton of innovation in mobile payments,” Tilenius said Tuesday at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat 2011 conference in …
Google Offers, the mega search company’s Groupon competitor, launched in beta last month in Portland, and we knew it was only a matter of time before it started offering daily deals to the rest of the U.S. Today, Google is …
Media company Local.com on Monday announced that it has acquired Screamin’ Media Group, the entity behind Groupon-like-company Screamin’ Daily Deals.
Screamin’ Daily Deals says it serves “hundreds of thousands” customers, which will help boost Local.com’s own group deals service called …
During a live demo at the D9 event Tuesday, Google said it views its new Wallet service as entirely different from the new point of sale devices PayPal is reportedly developing with major retailers.
Google is probably hoping the court …
While demonstrating their new mobile payment product Google Wallet today, Google executives offered some insight into how it will make money.
Google executive chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt gave the demonstration with Google vice president Stephanie Tilenius at the …
Google today finally spilled the beans on its long-rumored mobile payments platform, Google Wallet, at a New York City event. Unexpectedly, Google also tied in some announcements about its Groupon competitor, Google Offers.
The two services will make up an …
It looks like Google is about to launch the Google Offers deals service that was first revealed in January.
The company has put up a page where people can sign up to receive deals that offer 50 percent off or …
