November 23rd, 2012

Quit Clipping. After Hitting 450M Visits, Coupon Site RetailMeNot Launches Facebook App With Personalized Deals From Your Likes

Retail Me Not No Coupon Clipping

Tired of wading through irrelevant newspaper coupons? RetailMeNot doesn’t want you to feel the same way about its massive website. So it’s just launched a Facebook app that recommends coupons you’ll actually use by pulling in your Likes and interests. RetailMeNot is the top coupon site in the US with 450 million visits a year to its 500,000 offers. The app will make sorting through them a breeze… → Read More

April 4th, 2012

RetailMeNot Could Shred The Paper Coupon Biz With Credit Card-Integrated On and Offline Discounts

RetailMeNot Card-Linked Coupons

Why cut coupons when you could just click them? Following a successful trial at SXSW, the world’s largest online coupon site RetailMeNot is planning a roll out of its paperless credit card-linked coupons this summer with several nation-wide retailers. Saving money is as easy as visiting RetailMeNot, entering your credit card number, and selecting discounts to load onto your card. Then when you… → Read More

December 2nd, 2010

WhaleShark Media Closes A Whale Of A Financing, Buys RetailMeNot

WhaleShark Media, an online coupon rollup play, launched in June 2010. It was primarily funded by Austin Ventures, which has strong experience rolling up the home rental market with HomeAway. The general idea for WhaleShark was to copy the HomeAway model.

The company just raised a monster round of financing – some $90 million – from Austin Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners and Adam Street… → Read More

February 23rd, 2010

Printed coupons are from New Jersey, online coupons are from New York

RetailMeNot.com, “a top consumer destination for coupons, discounts and promotional codes for merchandise, groceries, travel and services”, shared some interesting statistics about consumer coupon use for the first month of 2010. New Jersey loves printing off coupons for use in brick-and-mortar stores, while New York prefers online coupon codes. Almost 15 million people visited RetailMeNot.com in… → Read More

April 7th, 2008

CushyCMS Beta Launch: Free Invites For TechCrunch Readers

Stateless Systems (RetailMeNot, BugMeNot) has launched a closed beta test of hosted service CushyCMS. CushyCMS is a fast, simple and free content management system that aims to make life easier for web designers by simplifying content management. Using CushyCMS, web designers can give content editors (for example a client) access to part, full or many pages at a granular level (headings, images… → Read More

March 16th, 2008

RetailMeNot Adds Social Network

Community coupon site RetailMeNot has today launched a social network on top of their coupon portal. RetailMeNot comes from Melbourne, Australia based Stateless Systems, who would be best known to TechCrunch readers as being the company behind bypass registrations page BugMeNot. I sat down with Guy King from Stateless Systems on Friday for a demo, video above. RetailMeNot is pushing through some… → Read More