December 21st, 2012

Groupon Buys CommerceInterface To Improve How Vendors Sell On Groupon Goods

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Groupon wants to be the king of local commerce, but with Groupon Goods it has a platform for online sales that compete with the likes of Amazon to sell goods from everyone everywhere. Today, it put another link into the second of these strategies with the acquisition of CommerceInterface, a channel management technology used in e-commerce operations that aggregate goods from multiple vendors. → Read More

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August 22nd, 2011

RumorFuel:GrouponChileNowSelling‘Productos’AtSignificant‘Descuentos’

Yesterday, I wrote a post after I noticed that Groupon had registered groupongoods.com, groupongoods.info and other related domain names, hypothesizing that the fast-growing daily deals startup might be plotting a dedicated website (section) for selling tangible products such as household items, consumer electronics or even groceries at a discount.

I speculated that ‘Groupon Goods’ would be a… → Read More

August 21st, 2011

Does Groupon Hope To Challenge Amazon With ‘Groupon Goods’?

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Last week, daily deals giant Groupon registered a bunch of domain names with ‘groupongoods’ in them (.com, .net, .us, .info, .biz and interestingly, .fr). Evidently, securing those domain names doesn’t necessarily mean the company is going to debut a service by the name ‘Groupon Goods’ soon or even in the distant future, but let’s hypothesize for a moment that this is exactly what they’re planning… → Read More