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Jun 16
2011

B2B Deals? MarketSharing Aims at Business Market

The deals space is largely oriented towards consumers, but is there a role for B2B? That’s the question that entrepreneur John Amato has asked himself. B2B deals have typically been limited to coupons and auctions (i.e. overstock.com). The founder of Show Media, a successful NYC Taxi cab advertising company, Amato is trying to carve out …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Shopping/Transactions

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Jun 15
2011

NextJump Launches OO.com: Deal Site Focuses on Rewards

NextJump has launched a beta version of OO.com, a consumer-facing destination site that seeks to leverage its relationships with merchants, national marketers and local marketing entities including Living Social (deals), Restaurant.com (restaurant deals) and now, Grubhub (restaurant order out). The site boasts 16,501 offers in 184 cities, and is divided into “national” offers, “limited time” …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Shopping/Transactions

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Jun 14
2011

Amex’s Serve and AOL’s Patch.com Partner for Prepaid, Paperless Deals

Ease of transaction, rewards and “exclusives” will be key to the next generation of deals, and the credit card companies are determined to play a major role. MasterCard is working with NextJump for special rewards programs, and has a number of other initiatives in the space (which key execs will discuss at our Deals 3D …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, HyperLocal, Sales Channels, Shopping/Transactions

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Jun 9
2011

Just Announced: Deals 3D Speaker Lineup, July 18-19 in SF

The Deals space is so hot, yet there are many unanswered questions about it. We know it will be big, but who really knows what it is going to look like 18 months from now? With that in mind, we have developed a brand new addition to our regular conference schedule: Deals 3D, a day-and-a …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Deals, Mobile, Shopping/Transactions

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Jun 9
2011

Coupons.com Gets $200 Million; $100 Million is for Tech, Staff Development

With Groupon going public, the promotions space is getting tremendously revved up. Hoping to get in on the action are promotional relatives of the deals space, including providers of grocery “cents off” coupons, retail weekly sales (circulars), retail rewards, and Buy One Get One Free. While most of these don’t do much with local advertisers, …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Mobile, Money, Newspapers

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Jun 6
2011

So — Do We Buy Shares in Groupon? 8 Big Qs

So, do we buy shares in Groupon? We don’t provide investment advice, of course, but as we consider its prospects from a non-investment angle, we’ll be watching for answers to the following eight questions – none of which, unsurprisingly -are adequately addressed in the S1. 1. The cost of the average deal is seen to …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Money, Verticals

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Jun 2
2011

NBC’s Sean Monzet: NBC O&O Sites Focus on Verticals, Social and Hyperlocal

NBC’s local websites for its 10 owned-and-operated stations have effectively lowered the average age of users from 44 to 33, boosted the average time spent on site to 12 minutes, and grown its user base to 10 million unique visitors, according to NBC San Diego Director of Integrated Media Sean Monzet, who was speaking at …continue reading »

Categories: HyperLocal, Misc, TV/Radio, Verticals

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