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Articles tagged “groupon”

Online Travel

Groupon launches restaurant reservations in challenge to OpenTable

Groupon is doing everything it can to deemphasize its voucher business, and its new dining service is the latest reflection of the pivot.

Lisa Rapaport, Bloomberg | 11 years ago

Groupon launches restaurant reservations in challenge to OpenTable

Online Travel

Groupon fires founder and CEO Andrew Mason; here’s his amazing sendoff letter

The ousted departed with class and posted a farewell letter to employees that went viral so quickly his blogging service crashed. If only Groupon could get that kind of mojo going again.

Associated Press | 11 years ago

Online Travel

Groupon says travel is a big deal as it makes concessions to local merchants

Critics have long charged that Groupon is not a sustainable business. That's because Groupon tends to turn off merchants because Groupon's cut of sales is so huge. Groupon's decision to take a diminished slice amount to a recognition that the critics were right to a certain extent.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Groupon says travel is a big deal as it makes concessions to local merchants

Online Travel

LivingSocial raises $110 million and it’s a downer for daily deals

From Groupon to Travelzoo and LivingSocial, the bloom is long off the rose in the daily deals space for travel and beyond. Amazon, which is an investor in LivingSocial, reports that LivingSocial recorded a $905 million operating loss in 2012.

Douglas MacMillan , Bloomberg | 11 years ago

LivingSocial raises $110 million and it’s a downer for daily deals

Online Travel

Facebook and Groupon apps add competing “Nearby” features for local discovery

Facebook's and Groupon's just-added Nearby features aren't Yelp killers given its depth of user reviews, but they are right in Yelp's kitchen.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Facebook and Groupon apps add competing “Nearby” features for local discovery

Hotels

Groupon Getaways with Expedia expands beyond vouchers

Voucher sales are facing a push-back, and this new Groupon partnership with Switchfly enables the voucher king to move a bit beyond them to get into more traditional sorts of travel sales.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 11 years ago

Groupon Getaways with Expedia expands beyond vouchers

Online Travel

Groupon misses estimates this quarter and posts a net loss despite rise in sales

While there does appear to be an uptick in some of Groupon's business, its troubled history with math means that there's no telling what quarterly reports are really saying.

Douglas MacMillan, Bloomberg | 11 years ago

Groupon misses estimates this quarter and posts a net loss despite rise in sales

Online Travel

Groupon filing reveals the extent of the SEC’s concern over the daily deal site’s reporting

As the once-hot flash sale market rapidly cools, Groupon is edging ever closer to being this decade's Pets.com or even -- heaven forbid -- Boo.com.

Edwin Chan, Reuters | 11 years ago

Groupon filing reveals the extent of the SEC’s concern over the daily deal site’s reporting

Hotels

Travelzoo goes shopping for hotel booking site to buy as its voucher business stalls

Critics always claimed that the voucher business was built on a house of cards, and now Travelzoo is admitting that the house is falling.

Dennis Schaal, Skift | 12 years ago

Online Travel

Starbucks turns to LivingSocial for daily deals experiment

In a slight against the Chicago-based deal merchant, for Starbuck's second shot at local deals it has turned to LivingSocial rather than Groupon.

Alistair Barr, Reuters | 12 years ago