September 9th, 2011

In Its Sixth Acquisition This Year, Group Buying Site BuyWithMe Scoops Up TownHog

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BuyWithMe, which rivals group buying / daily deal sites LivingSocial and Groupon in the United States, has been busy this year. The company this morning announced its sixth acquisition for 2011, scooping up San Francisco-based TownHog.

Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. → Read More

November 9th, 2009

DotBlu Resurfaces From The Deadpool, Starts Third Life As TownHog

A couple of weeks ago, we put DotBlu (formerly known as BluBet) in the deadpool. The San Francisco startup, which ran an online betting play at launch which later morphed to some sort of social gaming service, discontinued its operations on October 16 despite the startup being backed by a host of star investors (Jawed Karim of YouTube fame and Kevin Hartz of Xoom / Eventbrite to name but a… → Read More