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Groupon Acquires OrderUp Food Delivery Service
Groupon appears to be readying itself to expand into food delivery and take on services like GrubHub. Today, the company announced its acquisition of food-delivery service OrderUp and detailed its plans to expand into the $70 billion sector. Groupon’s New Apple Watch App Alerts You To Nearby Deals, Lets You Buy From Your Wrist
Groupon’s deal-finding iOS application was updated today to include support for Apple Watch. Like many Watch apps, Groupon takes advantage of its ability to tap into a user’s location by way of their connected iPhone, then uses this awareness to alert you to deals available near you. Unlike with Groupon’s mobile application, whose home screen features deals in your general… Read More
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Groupon Launches Breadcrumb Live To Bring Point-Of-Sale Management To The iPhone
Groupon has been expanding its footprint beyond daily deals for some time, and today the company is doubling down on its investment in its restaurant point-of-sale system Breadcrumb with a new app designed to bring live sales data to the iPhone. With Breadcrumb Live, the company is offering restaurant owners the ability to pull up sales information, check counts, performance trends and… Read More
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Groupon Acquires In-Store Analytics And Marketing Startup Swarm Mobile
Groupon just announced that it has acquired Swarm Mobile, a startup that helps businesses connect with and track their customers while in stores.
This continues Groupon’s pattern of expanding its offerings for local businesses beyond daily deals. Earlier this year, for example, it launched individual business pages and announced an iPad-based point-of-sale service. Read More
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Daily Deals Site Groupon Debuts A New App, Getaways, For Travel And Hotel Offers
Daily deals site Groupon says that travel is its fastest growing business category, and today it is launching a new mobile app that it hopes will help it capitalize on that more. Getaways by Groupon, a free app for iOS and Android, bypasses Groupon’s wider focus on local merchant deals to focus only on travel packages and hotels (25,000 offers listed right now), similar to the… Read More
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Groupon Goes After Yelp And Google With Millions Of Individual Business Pages
Groupon today took one more step ahead in its bid to be a simple daily deals site, and more of a general go-to place for local businesses and all of their e-commerce efforts: it has launched a new format and online presence called Pages. This is an online directory that will give businesses their own home page on Groupon’s site, where offers, news, user reviews and other information… Read More
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After Quietly Acquiring SnapSaves, Groupon Launches Snap, Paying You To Shop
Groupon continues apace with its plans to evolve from an online daily deals giant into a wider e-commerce player, with an emphasis on mobile and local purchases. Today the company is launching a new app called Snap — which provides iOS and Android users with a set list of products, and gives you money back when you purchase them, by way of a photographed and uploaded receipt. Snap… Read More
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