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AOL Goes After Groupon, Launches Daily Deal Site
The competition to grab consumers’ attention with daily deal or special product of the day shopping sites is really starting to heat up now. Back in July, we told you that Amazon had acquired the daily...
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Yahoo Follows AOL into the Daily Deal Competition
“Whatever you can do, we can do better.” That seems to be the general sentiment coming from the folks at Yahoo.com, who announced today that they’re going to jump into the featured product business...
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Groupon Tells Google “Thanks, but No Thanks”
Today’s post offers a good lesson: a deal, acquisition, and/or merger is never really final until the ink is dry on the paperwork. Despite the fact that many within the tech industry had naturally...
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LivingSocial Brings in Former Walmart Executive
Flush with cash and better positioned than ever to make a run at Groupon for dominance in the daily deal/featured product shopping market, LivingSocial has made another big splash as part of its...
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BuyWithMe Names a New CEO
It seems like the daily deal site industry has been dominating e-commerce coverage lately, what with all the talk of acquisitions, buyouts, international investments and the like. Today’s no different...
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Guest Submission: Are Daily Deals Sites Sustainable?
By Mark Armitage, SocialShopping.com The recent proliferation of daily coupon sites online has been nothing short of phenomenal. Spearheaded by the likes of Groupon and LivingSocial, these daily deals...
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Groupon’s Valentine’s Day Snafu
As it turns out, ascending to the much-desired status as the new IT thing in e-commerce in recent months hasn’t meant smooth sailing for Groupon. The daily deal site finds itself in damage control mode...
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ShopSavvy and Groupon Team Up
Daily deal giant Groupon has partnered with bar code-scanning application developer ShopSavvy on a new program that will deliver local and personalized Groupon offers exclusively to the more than 10...
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Bing Jumps into Daily Deal Business
If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em! That seems to be the thinking over at Microsoft at least, which late last week decided to throw its hat into the daily deal ring with a new feature that adds daily...
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Leadership Change Coming at Groupon
Looking for an exciting, executive-level e-commerce job? Polish up your resume folks and keep your eyes on those want ads because Groupon is ditching its president and chief operating officer in the...
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Google Offers Arrives
Shoppers in Portland will be the first to get a crack at trying out Google’s long-awaited entry into the daily deal arena, as the search giant this week has launched a sign-up page on its site for...
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PC Mall Adds Daily Deal Offering to Discount Site
We had a brief lull in daily deal news items going there for awhile. Well, so much for that! PC Mall this week has announced its entrance into e-commerce’s hottest new arena with a little twist....
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Glenn Beck Brings a Whole Different Kind of Values to Daily Deal Shopping
In what might qualify as the most random piece of news that we’ve ever reported here on Ecommerce Junkie, conservative political commentator Glenn Beck, the bane of the liberals everywhere, has...
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In Daily Deal Industry, Everyone Else is Looking up at Groupon
While the daily deals market has become increasingly crowded over the course of the past year or so, it would appear that all of the newcomers (and even those companies that have been at it for awhile)...
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Groupon’s Privacy Policy Catches Lawmakers’ Attention
Having established itself as the clear-cut leader in the growing daily deal industry with an army of loyal fans and customers as well as an anticipated $3 billion in revenue this year alone, one would...
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