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Groupon, Inc. is an American global e-commerce marketplace connecting subscribers with local merchants by offering activities, travel, goods and services in 13 [ 2] countries. Based in Chicago, Groupon was launched there in November 2008, launching soon after in Boston, New York City and Toronto. By October 2010, Groupon was available in 150 ...
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Social-networking coupon peddler Groupon (NAS: GRPN) came public on Friday in a market debut that valued the company at $12.8 billion. It was the largest U.S. Internet company IPO in seven years.
When Google (GOOG) reportedly offered to buy Groupon for $6 billion, board members stood to make millions of dollars each. Co-founders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky could have walked away with ...
Deal-of-the-day. Deal-of-the-day (also called daily deal or flash sales or one deal a day) is an ecommerce business model in which a website offers a single product for sale for a period of 24 to 36 hours. Potential customers register as members of the deal-a-day websites and receive online offers and invitations by email or social networks .
With Groupon taking 50 percent of every deal, plus a small credit-card handling fee, [9] in late 2010 it was reported by Mashable that Groupon's annual revenue was $800 million. [10] On December 1, 2010, The New York Times reported that Groupon was the subject of a $6 billion acquisition bid from Google, which Groupon turned down. [11]
Groupon is planning an initial public offering that would value the three-year-old online coupon distribution site at as much as $15 billion -- more than double what Google (GOOG) reportedly bid ...
LivingSocial is an online marketplace that allows its registered users to buy and share things to do in their city. [5] Formerly headquartered in Washington, D.C., LivingSocial had roughly 70 million members around the world in 2013. [2] The company shrank from a peak of 4,500 employees in 2011 to about 200 in 2016.