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Article | 12/02/2013 Groupon acquires MashLogic's Britely tool
Groupon has acquired MashLogic, a company based in California that makes a simple tool called Britely to capture and collate bits of information from ...
Article | 29/01/2013 More group buying sites in China close, but market goes up in value
China's group buying market continues to shrink, with the number of players in operation declining by close to 1,000 sites over the past year.
Article | 9/01/2013 'Worst CEO' list calls out Zynga's Pincus, Zuckerberg's 'hoodie mentality'
Zynga's Mark Pincus made the annual "Worst CEOs" list compiled by Dartmouth College professor Sydney Finkelstein, which also nearly included Mark Zuck...
Article | 17/12/2011 Wall Street Beat: IPOs, M&A, chip news stir tech optimism
Zynga's initial public offering Friday, a raft of acquisition announcements this week from IBM, Salesforce and others, and some upbeat reports on the ...
Article | 18/11/2011 Yelp hopes to raise $100 million in IPO
Yelp, a local business reviews site, filed Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for an initial public offering (IPO) of up to US$...
Article | 1/11/2011 China's group buying sites mainly 'sinking ships', fighting for profits
Nearly all of China's over 5,000 group buying sites will eventually go under as tough competition and diminishing cash reserves force them to fold, ac...
Article | 25/10/2011 Groupon's China venture posts US$46M loss
Groupon's China venture posted a net loss of US$46.4 million for the past nine months, generating only $2.1 million in revenue as it fights to gain do...
Article | 4/10/2011 Groupon rebrands, repositions in India
Less than a year after it acquired popular Indian shopping deals site SoSasta.com, Groupon is changing the name of the site to Crazeal.com, and plans ...
Article | 26/09/2011 Groupon COO quits after five months to return to Google
Groupon's COO has quit after just five months and decided to return to her former employer, Google, Groupon said on Friday.
Article | 25/08/2011 Groupon's struggle in China no surprise, say analysts
Groupon's problems in China, including a recent round of staff layoffs, have come as no surprise to analysts, who hold that the company rushed its pla...
Article | 28/06/2011 Groupon India data published on Internet, said researcher
The user database of Groupon's Indian subsidiary, SoSasta, was published on the Internet and indexed by Google, according to an Australian security co...
Article | 23/06/2011 Groupon's China site faces strong local competitors
Under pressure from entrenched local competition, Groupon, a late comer, is lagging in the Chinese group buying market. A focus on hiring local manage...
Article | 4/06/2011 Wall Street Beat: IT will have winners, losers
Though signs for IT remain positive this year, worries about the economy sapped investor confidence this week as a wide range of businesses, including...
Article | 10/05/2011 NetSuite aims at enterprises with 'unlimited' push
On-demand ERP software vendor NetSuite is expected to announce a new push into large enterprises on Tuesday during its SuiteWorld user conference in S...
Article | 25/04/2011 Successful tech startups offer IT tips for CIOs
Successful technology startups are usually keen to draw attention to their hot products, not to their internal use of IT. But companies such as Groupo...