Author tours have never been a guaranteed way to sell books, so many publishers have cut back on them. Togather, a new Brooklyn-based startup, hopes it can reinvent the author tour by guaranteeing that a certain number of books will be sold in advance. Read more »
The lawsuits are coming fast and furious against Groupon after the daily deal site admitted to dodgy accounting tactics in a recent SEC filing. Read more »
Facebook’s much-anticipated IPO looks to be coming ever-closer, with a new report out with further details of what we will see come Wednesda… Read more »
Looks like new CEO Scott Thompson is wasting little time starting to get Yahoo’s house in order: just a few weeks into the new CEO’s tenure,… Read more »
Today we know a bit more about how Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) plans to extend its business opportunities in the years ahead: mobile services will… Read more »
This is the fifth in a series of posts this week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sectors we cov… Read more »
This is the fourth in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we c… Read more »
The long-awaited IPO of social games giant Zynga has finally arrived, but those hoping for quick, early flips of the stock may end up having… Read more »
Andrew Rhomberg thinks discovering new books online isn’t much fun. It’s great if you already know what you’re looking for, but if you’re ho… Read more »
Major news outlets this week reported that merchants filed a lawsuit against Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) for tampering with electronic contracts. T… Read more »
Back in June, paidContent reported how the UK’s advertising regulator had started reprimanding Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) after a growing number o… Read more »
Investors are not the only ones who see Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) as a money maker these days. In a lawsuit filed today, a California company is… Read more »
There may be hundreds of competitors out there, but Groupon (NSDQ: GRPN) this week has confirmed itself as the biggest daily deals site of t… Read more »
Groupon is facing an ugly brew of consumer, employee and intellectual property lawsuits. This messy legal landscape is yet another wild card… Read more »
After Groupon spurned its $6 billion offer last year, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) decided to launch a deal-of-the-day site of its very own. It looks… Read more »
Groupon will sell 30 million shares in its upcoming IPO, priced at $16 to $18 per share. The company estimates its net proceeds will be $478… Read more »
Groupon is planning an IPO of around $500 to $700 million in the next two weeks, according to reports in DealBook and the Wall Street Journa… Read more »
Unorthodox accounting metrics are not new to Groupon. In the latest instance, the daily deal site says it isn’t happy that some “clever peop… Read more »
September can’t end soon enough for Groupon. The month brought a string of staff departures, SEC spats and the indefinite shelving of the co… Read more »
Once again, Groupon is in the news for all the wrong reasons. Margo Georgiadis, hired as COO only five months ago, is going back to Google (… Read more »
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) at the moment gets the vast majority of its revenues from its huge advertising business, but today we saw two examples o… Read more »
Earlier this week came reports that the daily-deals site, suddenly unpopular with both users and investors, is considering shelving its long… Read more »
Groupon is “reevaluating its plans to go public in the face of stock market volatility” and has canceled its roadshow scheduled for next wee… Read more »
Groupon may be in a quiet period as it gears up for its IPO, but it has been the subject of many a story questioning its business. Now, a le… Read more »
Facebook has been sizing up the mobile world with hungry eyes for a while now — more than one-third of the social network’s 750-million-plu… Read more »
Furthering its expansion into the Asian market, LivingSocial is buying TicketMonster, South Korea’s largest daily deals site. Read more »
Foursquare is rapidly expanding its partnerships in the daily deal space. Starting today, Foursquare users will find Groupon’s daily and rea… Read more »
When Groupon filed IPO documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission in June, its use of certain financial accounting metrics raised… Read more »
How many Keratin wraps, photography workshops and Hookah tokes does one person really need? After Groupon and LivingSocial, there are anothe… Read more »
When Groupon co-founder and executive chairman Eric Lefkosky predicted the money-losing online coupon service would be “wildly profitable,”… Read more »
The crowded world of mobile local offer apps has today sworn in another citizen. O2 Priority Moments, from the Telefonica-owned mobile opera… Read more »
Not all internet IPOs are created equal.
A decade after the dot-com crash, sky-high internet company valuations are prompting a heated argu… Read more »
Groupon competitor LivingSocial met with bankers this week to discuss a $1 billion public offering, according to CNBC. Read more »
As Groupon grows in popularity, it’s generating custom for an increasing number of small local businesses – and also a growing number of com… Read more »
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: hours before we start to hear the real news, some spoofed speculations on what we might s… Read more »
Andrew Mason has no problems being viewed as a quirky guy. Indeed, he thrives on it, as exhibited by his insistence that his grimacing Illin… Read more »
Deals startup Groupon is going public. The Chicago-based company, which opted for independence rather than be acquired by Google (NSDQ: GOOG… Read more »
Groupon has hired Margo Georgiadis, a VP of global sales operations at Google (NSDQ: GOOG), as its new COO, according to multiple reports. A… Read more »
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Check-in service Whrrl to shut down as part of Groupon’s acquisition of Pelago; News.me… Read more »
Groupon founder Andrew Mason was already sick of it a year ago, shortly after his fast-growing company first got sued over allegedly illegal… Read more »
