Gamification and social hooks have become cornerstones across every category of consumer apps these days, and today one that’s using these to build out a new e-commerce platform in Europe is ann
Coupang early investor Ben Sun shares an inside look into the growth of the Korean e-commerce giant and explains how founder Bom Kim led a pivot when the company was already an established business.
Groupon, the daily deals platform that has been restructuring itself and trying to shift into more profitable areas of e-commerce, today reported its Q4 earnings. The company reported sales of $934.9
Some significant consolidation is going down in the world of daily deals — going down being the operative phrase here. Today, Groupon announced it would acquire LivingSocial, its onetime big r
More bad news for LivingSocial, the beleaguered commerce platform that competes with the likes of Groupon in offering deals on events and services local to its users. Today, LivingSocial announced
Its been crunch time for daily deals sites for a while now, and today one of the bigger and older of those platforms is announcing a round of layoffs as it looks to cut costs, reorganise its operatio
The downsizing of LivingSocial’s international operations continues: the daily deals site has sold Let’s Bonus — and its operations in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Chile. The buyer
LivingSocial is today announcing a new CEO and president, putting to rest a question mark that has hovered over the daily deals business for the last several months. Gautam Thakar, an eBay executive
LivingSocial is today announcing some services that it hopes will help bring old users back into the fold, and to maybe bring in some new interest in the process. The daily deals site has raised nearl
Microsoft quietly shut down its U.S.-only daily deals aggregator Bing Deals earlier this year and relaunched it as Bing Offers in April, but things got rather quiet around the service since. Today, ho
The daily deals hype around Groupon, LivingSocial and all of their clones has markedly cooled down over the last few months, but that isn’t stopping Microsoft from launching Bing Offers, a new l
More details have emerged about LivingSocial's new $110 million funding round announced yesterday. In response to a blog post characterizing the raise as an emergency round of debt financing, LivingSo
6Wunderkinder, the Berlin-based developer of cross-platform productivity app Wunderlist, today announced a step up in its ambitions as a “productivity platform” for a global audience: it h
<a href="http://startupstats.com/breaking-livingsocial-co-founder-and-president-steps-down-2012-03/">StartupStats got wind of news this afternoon</a> that LivingSocial Co-founder Eddie Frederick is st
<a href="http://www.livingsocial.com">LivingSocial</a> is now testing a new food ordering and delivery service as a part of <a href="http://www.livingsocial.com/instant">LivingSocial Instant</a>, the
Daily deal outfit <a href="http://www.livingsocial.com">LivingSocial</a> has just announced an expansion to 20 additional markets in North America, mainly U.S. cities, plus one town in Ontario, Canada
It may have started with a <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/08/21/does-groupon-hope-to-challenge-amazon-with-groupon-goods/">quiet rollout</a>, but a recent announcement shows that it's <a href="h
In light of reports that the company was <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904537404576554812230222934.html">canceling its investor roadshow and postponing its IPO</a>, daily deal
<a href="http://yipit.com/">Yipit</a>, the site that aggregates and recommends daily deals based on users' locations and interests (and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/21/yipit-6-million/">rai
Multiple sources in the know have informed us that <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/livingsocial">LivingSocial</a> is close to continuing its international expansion with the impending acqui
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