Internet set to overtake TV as most complained-about ad medium
The internet is on the brink of overtaking television as the most complained-about advertising medium in the UK, with the ad regulator recording a surge of almost 300% in the number of consumers...
View ArticleLivingSocial signs partnership with Anschutz's AEG
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - LivingSocial, the world's second-largest daily deal company, signed an exclusive partnership with Philip Anschutz's AEG business to offer members access to live events run by...
View ArticleFriday reading #5
“Friday reading” has lasted a whole month now, so I guess you could call it a regular feature - gathering together some of the things I’ve read or noted over the week on a Friday, so you can load up...
View ArticleStory of the Week: Social media stocks slump
Facebook’s second full week of trading ended just as dismally as the first, and it wasn’t the only one that was ailing. Tech stocks across the board, from Zynga to Groupon, were down. While this was...
View ArticleGroupon's "tuck-in" deal grants much-needed levity
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - For years, online daily deals site Groupon has peddled discounts on restaurants, dance classes, and spa treatments.
View ArticleGroupon’s Evolution Is Hurting Facebook (But Helping Google)
Groupon and Facebook aren’t exactly competitors — not in most ways, anyway. But the fates of these two controversial internet giants are nevertheless linked, with the former’s progress toward...
View ArticleFacebook’s cloud passes over sunny Silicon Valley
The dismal performance of Facebook’s initial public offering, after several years in which it was expected to crown the emergence on public markets of social networks, is bound to dampen the mood in...
View ArticleMedia Companies Poised For Deals Growth
Groupon and Living Social may still loom largest in the deals market, but media companies are positioned to cut a much bigger profile in a crowded space where consumer appetites still have not abated....
View ArticleConstant Contact Buys Small-Business Web Lister SinglePlatform for $70 Million
Online marketing service Constant Contact has picked up SinglePlatform, a two-year-old start-up that helps small businesses list their services online.
View ArticleOnline coupon provider, RetailMeNot, launches its first iPhone app; mobile...
It is a bit ironic, and more than a bit sad, that some newspaper companies are cutting back their daily print schedules to concentrate on certain days that remain profitable. One of those days, Sunday,...
View ArticleGroupon shares jump on Morgan Stanley upgrade
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of online marketer Groupon Inc jumped on Monday after Morgan Stanley raised the stock to "overweight," saying that scale and technology advantages had enabled the company to...
View ArticleTurkey: the new internet frontier?
A global VoD platform that I've never heard of - I'm so very parochial. But isn't everyone? As Efe points out, only 13% of global internet users in the US - and it's a steadily declining share. His...
View ArticleLivingSocial, a 'whale' of a time and the battle for online deals
From discounted massages to "zombie chasing", daily deals website, LivingSocial, aims to take on rivals such as Groupon.
View ArticleDaily Must Reads, July 13, 2012
The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung 1. A by-the-numbers take on Digg's decline (The Atlantic) 2. Are TV and the cable bundle on the verge of death? (The...
View ArticleGroupon Takes a Page Out of Facebook Studio
Facebook Studio, eat your heart out. Following a trend among notable digital firms like Facebook, Groupon today announced a resource that’s designed to show local merchants how the deals platform can...
View ArticleSteve Smith's Eye on Digital Media: How Publishers Can Capture that New...
Last week, Nielsen revealed an interesting tipping point in the evolution of smartphone habits: almost half of all advanced phone owners now use a shopping app of some kind. eBay, Amazon, Groupon and...
View ArticleEven A Profit Cannot Erase Questions About Groupon’s Business Model
Daily deals site Groupon can’t even produce its first quarterly profit without disappointing shareholders. Though the company’s revenue gained 45 percent year-over-year to come in at $568. 3 million in...
View ArticleGroupon shares tumble on investor concern over growth
A better-than-expected rise in profits at Groupon was not enough to prevent a 20pc dip in its share price on Monday, as investors feared that the world's largest daily deals website may be struggling...
View ArticleGroupon stock down by more than 70% from IPO price
Shares in daily deals website Groupon fell by more than 70% in after hours trading yesterday as it became the latest next generation dotcom stock to hit trouble along with Facebook and Zynga, which...
View ArticleBanks Eat Into Groupon's Business
One day after Groupon's disappointing Q2 earnings report, the daily deals row isn't getting any easier to hoe. For the second consecutive week, a major banking institution has rolled out a deals...
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