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Are You Ready for Some (Cheap) Football?
In a climate where Groupon’s stock plummet has sullied the general outlook for deals sites offering everything from pole-dancing classes to Bermuda vacations, maybe a pure sports platform is just the...
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1-800-Flowers.com Throws Bouquets at Facebook Offers
1-800-Flowers.com just hit 500,000 Facebook fans and today is commemorating the social media milestone by pitching free shipping, no service charge and a $10 Zynga gift card via Facebook Offers. At...
View ArticleGroupon's Deal Worsens Daily
Tough times continue for the deals firm Groupon, which disappointed Wall Street on Thursday (Nov. 8) with a net loss of $3 million for the third quarter and below-expectations revenues of $569...
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Laser Hair Removal—or Derek Jeter?
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason's "the plane crash is much more interesting than the safe landing" comment yesterday probably didn't exactly help sales for his company's vacations product, Groupon Getaways....
View ArticleStarbucks' Heavy Metal
Whether Starbucks coffee is anything special is a matter of opinion, and yet the brand clearly has many caffeine addicts hooked. But are they willing to fork over $450 to replace those plastic...
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LivingSocial Nabs Former Best Buy CMO
LivingSocial today tapped Barry Judge as CMO, the same role he held at Best Buy for the last four years during his decade-plus tenure at the big box retailer. He left Best Buy in May, exiting the...
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Andrew Mason Exits Groupon With One of the Best Goodbye Emails Ever
Give Andrew Mason credit. He came in like a smart aleck, and that's the way he's going out. The Groupon founder was fired from the company's CEO position today after a bad earnings report on...
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JCPenney One of 10 Brands Predicted to Die in Next Year
As new brands are brought to life in the evolution of various verticals, others will inevitably give up the ghost. While obsolesence related to industrial shifts is the No. 1 killer of outdated...
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Groupon Launches High-End Restaurant Reservation Service
Groupon today has launched an OpenTable-like feature called Groupon Reserve that lets consumers book restaurant tables at double-digit percentage discounts. The service will run via technology from...
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Infographic: Holiday Guide to Mobile Marketing
With Thanksgiving only 10 days away, how will mobile will affect in-store and e-commerce sales during the holiday season? The true "Year of Mobile" occurred sometime in the last several years, though...
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Millennials Are Nearly 4 Times More Likely to Shop on Black Friday Than Boomers
Baby Boomers are hardly gearing up for Black Friday, while perhaps surprising, more than a quarter of millennials plan to hit the mall hard next week. That's according to DDB Worldwide's new research,...
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Can LivingSocial Bounce Back?
After 13 years at retailer Best Buy, Barry Judge last February joined LivingSocial as marketing chief, right around the time the daily-deals site looked like a sinking ship. Industry watchers...
View ArticleWhy Post-O'Shaughnessy LivingSocial Might Not Be Dead In Its Tracks
Tim O'Shaughnessy has announced that he will step aside as CEO of LivingSocial after co-founding the company in 2007. Per O'Shaughnessy's letter posted today via the firm's blog, the struggling...
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Groupon Buys Ideeli for $43 Million
Groupon has purchased fashion discounts firm Ideeli for $43 million in cash, the companies have announced. Six-year-old Ideeli employs 150 staffers that are mostly situated in its New York...
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LivingSocial Taps eBay Exec to Right the Ship
Seven months after Tim O’Shaughnessy said he would step down as LivingSocial CEO, the deals company has named Gautam Thakar as his replacement. Thakar has spent nearly the last decade working a...
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