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May 21
2013

GrubHub, Seamless Merge; Mobile Drives Food Ordering Growth

Photo: CNN Online restaurant ordering and discovery giants GrubHub and Seamless have agreed to merge their operations, creating a single company. Chicago-based GrubHub currently serves more than 20,000 food ordering establishments in 500 cities, while New York-based Seamless serves more than 12,000 food ordering establishments in 400 U.S. cities plus London. GrubHub CEO Matt Maloney, …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Mobile, Money, Shopping/Transactions, Social Media, Verticals

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Dec 21
2012

Chase Buys Bloomspot; Banks Continue Invasion of Deals Space

Another bank has telegraphed its strategy in the offers and loyalty space. JP Morgan Chase, the nation’s second largest bank after Bank of America, announced today that it had purchased Bloomspot. The acquisition follows MasterCard’s recent purchase of TruAxis and BarclayCard’s purchase of Analog Analytics. Other banks have partnered with transaction marketing vendors, which include …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Money

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Oct 30
2012

Notes from Seattle Interactive: Microsoft and the Multi-Device User

Hot trends in Web and marketing were all on display this week at Seattle Interactive, a large regional show with 190 speakers and an audience largely comprised of Northwest agencies, startups and technologists. The change in media was brilliantly illustrated by a single question posed by a speaker. “How many of you responded to a …continue reading »

Categories: Conferences, Money, Technology

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Sep 7
2012

MasterCard Dives into Card-linked Loyalty via Truaxis

MasterCard has dived feet first into the card linked loyalty battles with the acquisition of Truaxis. The company should prove to be an anchor for MasterCard Offers Services, where it has partnered with Local Offer Network and others. Formerly known as BillShrink, a lowest rate guide which developed a customer base of 1.6 million, Truaxis …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Money, Sales Channels

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Aug 22
2012

The Move to Loyalty Platforms: Yodle Founder Launches Punchey

In a reflection of the industry’s ongoing interest in developing SMB promotional and loyalty services, Yodle founder Nate Stevens’ venture fund announced last week that it is putting $1.7 Million into Punchey, a new mobile-oriented payments and promotions platform. The 12 person, Boston-based firm was founded in late 2011 and is focused on SMB “upstream …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Money, Shopping/Transactions

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Aug 21
2012

Trulia’s S1: Strong Focus on Monthly Fees, Mobile Monetization

Trulia, which provides real estate Web and mobile leads, display advertising and real estate-oriented social media services, has followed in the footsteps of its rival, Zillow, and issued an S1 in preparation for going public and raising $75 Million. Zillow’s IPO has been highly successful – it went out last July at $20 and is …continue reading »

Categories: Classifieds, Local Search, Mobile, Money, Social Media, Verticals

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Aug 2
2012

FiveStars Lands $13.9 Million; Card-Linked Loyalty Space Heats Up

The card-linked loyalty and rewards space is seen by a lot of the smart money as the next Groupon. Today, we saw new money being poured into FiveStars ($13.9 Million), LevelUp ($9 Million) and LocalBonus ($900,000). The companies have now raised $16 million, $21 Million and $1.4 Million respectively — about half the $78 Million …continue reading »

Categories: Deals, Money

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