Neil Ashe said he wanted a break when he left CBS (NYSE: CBS) last year and he got one. Roughly a year after leaving as the president of CBS… Read More »
Updated: The Deal Is On! Groupon Gets $700 Million IPO, Stock Up 31 Percent
By Ingrid Lunden
Nov. 4, 2011, 3:21pm
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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 »
Furthering its expansion into the Asian market, LivingSocial is buying TicketMonster, South Korea’s largest daily deals site. 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 »
LivingSocial Picks Wall Street Banks to Lead $1 Billion IPO: Report
By Sam Gustin
Jul. 9, 2011, 2:45am
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LivingSocial, the number two player after Groupon in the booming daily deals market, has selected three Wall Street banks to underwrite its… Read More »
Going up against Groupon’s own plan to buy itself international scale, LivingSocial just acquired its way in to three more regions. Read More »
LivingSocial Raises $400 Million In Huge New Round
By Joseph Tartakoff
Apr. 6, 2011, 8:44pm
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Four months after receiving a $175 million investment from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), LivingSocial has added $400 million in new funding. The huge… Read More »
How much of a break-out hit is LivingSocial’s daily deal of $10 for a $20 Amazon.com gift certificate? In 2010, LivingSocial’s most popular… Read More »
Only a day after Groupon said it would expand aggressively abroad through the purchase of three daily deals services in India, Israel and So… Read More »
EBay Snaps Up brands4friends For $200 Million
By Ingrid Lunden
Dec. 20, 2010, 6:27pm
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EBay is on the acquisition trail as it looks for growth in new markets: today the auction giant announced that it would buy brands4friends,… Read More »
How Twitter’s Funding Stacks Up Against The Biggest Deals Of 2010
By Joseph Tartakoff
Dec. 16, 2010, 7:14am
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Here’s a sign of how the market for companies seeking funding has loosened up over the last year. When Twitter last raised a round of ventur… Read More »
Moving to counter Google (NSDQ: GOOG), which is widely expected to soon announce a deal to purchase Groupon, Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) has jus… Read More »
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By Joseph Tartakoff
Oct. 19, 2010, 8:30pm
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LivingSocial, the fast-growing daily deals service, has made a small acquisition, signaling its desire to distinguish itself from rivals. Th… Read More »
By Joseph Tartakoff
Apr. 29, 2010, 8:40pm
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Here’s another sign of how much promise investors think there is in the group-buying market: LivingSocial, which runs a group-buying service… Read More »
By Joseph Tartakoff
Mar. 12, 2010, 4:00am
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LivingSocial, which develops various social apps and also runs a group-buying service, has raised $25 million in a second round of funding l… Read More »
By Joseph Tartakoff
Jan. 5, 2010, 2:30am
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Social app developer LivingSocial has raised an additional $5 million in funding, a spokeswoman tells us. The round was led by Grotech Ventu… Read More »
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