NEW YORK -- Throw away all those soy sauce-stained takeout menus. Online deals site LivingSocial is unveiling an Internet food-ordering service. Hung...
Dane Steele Green | Posted 04.09.2012
Online booking sites like Priceline.com and Hotwire.com have been helping hotels fill empty rooms at steep discounts for years now. But with recessionary times, come recessionary opportunities to take advantage of consumer's penny pinching desires, and a rash of companies are jumping in the game.
Posted 02.13.2012
According to the daily deal web site LivingSocial, Miami is the vainest city in America. And they did more than hang out on Washington Avenue and Fift...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.09.2011
Tough economic times and the proliferation of coupon sites like Groupon and LivingSocial has made coupon use increasingly popular, but one demographic...
Posted 12.01.2011
Most subscribers of daily deal sites such as Groupon and LivingSocial agree that it is worth remaining a subscriber for those once-in-a-blue-moon deal...
Posted 01.23.2012
These charities will make your money multiply! This Black Friday or Cyber Monday, make your dollars count. Our top picks of charities that, for exampl...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 11.23.2011
Consider it the daily-deal gold rush. First, there was Groupon's much-anticipated IPO in early November, which valued the market leader at $12.7 billi...
The Huffington Post | Jason O. Gilbert | Posted 01.04.2012
Groupon is off to a hot start on the stock market, seeing its company value balloon to over $16 billion on its first day of trading on the NASDAQ exch...
Posted 12.28.2011
In the wake of the launch of LivingSocial Gourmet, Groupon has launched its own high-end dining deal program in New York: Groupon Reserve. Available o...
AP | By RACHEL METZ | Posted 12.17.2011
SAN FRANCISCO -- Online deals site LivingSocial is launching an invitation-only service aimed at food fans, offering experiences such as a visit to an...
Gary Liberson, PhD | Posted 11.25.2011
Usually, the data and findings about consumer preferences are hidden behind proprietary and confidential analyses. However, a new study reveals public data on daily deal sites. Their study provides some interesting statistics.
Gary Liberson, PhD | Posted 11.21.2011
If you are interested in IPOs, then you must be wondering if the daily deal sites are a sustainable business. Perhaps more to the point, you should be wondering how Groupon could be worth $6 billion?
Reuters.com | Posted 09.28.2011
LivingSocial Chief Executive Tim O'Shaughnessy said mobile technology may be a "gamer-changer" for the daily deal industry, although he was cautious a...
The Huffington Post | Bianca Bosker | Posted 09.11.2011
Foursquare wants to make a deal. The location-based service, which enables users to share their location by checking in to venues via their smartph...
AP | By ELLEN GIBSON | Posted 09.09.2011
-- Online coupon seller Living Social has selected banks to underwrite a stock offering that will seek to raise $1 billion, CNBC reported on Friday. ...
David Briggs | Posted 07.11.2011
People were eager to take the free meals or special offers, but not so willing to keep coming back at prices businesses must charge to turn a profit. Churches, mosques and temples can empathize.
TechCrunch | Posted 06.25.2011
Whoops. Looks like The New York Times has a little embargo breaking situation on their hands. (Which we love -- chaos!) They've just put up a story w...
Ed Zitron | Posted 05.25.2011
LivingSocial, Groupon and the rest of the group-buying massive have led the charge on some hundreds of millions of dollars of spending. If anything, t...
Robert Ball | Posted 05.25.2011
Remember and focus solely on the most important value proposition and monetization opportunity social media offers: reach prospects and customers where they are and how they want to be reached.
Courtney Boyd Myers | Posted 05.25.2011
One of the first successful ventures to jump on the daily deal scene was Groupon. Since Groupon's success, over 100 similar enterprises have launched.
AP | BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 03.29.2012