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1 hr ago | Entrepreneur Magazine

Gtrot and a Vision for Local Discovery

After launching just two years ago, Gtrot, a Chicago-based social travel tool, attracted venture capital funding from Lightbank, the famed venture firm that also backed Groupon.

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Related Topix: Venture Capital, Emerging Technology

5 hrs ago | The Motley Fool

Groupon: Global Technology Initiative, but Silence on Costs

George is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinions of our bloggers and are not formally edited.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Google, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines

Sun May 27, 2012

Medford Mail Tribune

Buy Facebook stock? No, you shouldn't

Facebook may be your friend or where your friends hang out. But that doesn't mean the stock will be friendly to you if you rush to buy it.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Financial Markets

Sat May 26, 2012

International Business Times

Groupon Takes Aim at Paypal with Payment Service

Groupon is testing a payment service that will allow merchants to accept credit cards using its infrastructure, reports said, pushing the coupon company into market space already occupied by Paypal and Square.

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Related Topix: Groupon, iPod touch App, iPad App, iPhone and iPad App, iPhone App, Square, eBay

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Tech Biz Recap: EMC Promoter, Groupon and Payments

Storage majorA EMC Corporation A shares move a bit higher after kind words from Barron's which noted the cloud exposure, a recent refreshing of products, its 80 percent investment inA VMware A , and its ability to get through a recession.

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Related Topix: Startups, Network Appliance, Computers, EMC, RSA Security, Iomega, Greenplum Software

Read/Write Web

A Five-Year Update: The State of the Web in India

Since this 2006 article on RWW about the Top Web Apps in India , a lot has happened in the Indian web industry.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Internet

Fri May 25, 2012

The Independent

Stephen Foley: How much should a start-up's founder cash in?

Stephen Foley is Associate Business Editor of The Independent, based in New York.

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook

Phoenix New Times

Mirth Wants to Be the Groupon Killer

Mirth, which announced its existence at TechCrunch's Disrupt NYC convention , bills itself as a business-friendly alternative to deal programs like Groupon and LivingSocial.

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Related Topix: LivingSocial

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Facebook and Groupon Lead Social Media Stocks in Action

Facebook, Inc. is back to selling off following some ups and downs yesterday and Capstone Investments starting coverage with a Hold .

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Financial Markets, eBay, e-dialog, GSI Technology

Examiner.com

Groupon releases its most popularly bought hotel deals

On Groupon's travel deals page called Groupon Getaways , the "group coupon" website reports the most recent figures of hotel deals sold -- so this intrepid Internet Deals reporter gathered and analyzed the current data and ranked the amount of deals sold to get a feel for what people are buying today.

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Related Topix: Memorial Day, Life, Holidays, us Travel, Travel, Truckee, CA

GlobeNewswire

Pomerantz Law Firm Reminds Shareholders of Groupon, Inc. of Upcoming Deadline -- GRPN

Shareholders of Groupon, Inc. are reminded of the securities class action filed against Groupon and certain of its officers.

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Related Topix: Corporate / Securities Law, Law

Silicon Alley Insider

By The Way, The Facebook IPO Screwup Could Be Curtains For NASDAQ

It's hard to overstate how big a disaster the Facebook IPO has been for NASDAQ , one of the United States' two big stock exchanges.

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Financial Markets, LinkedIn

GigaOM

Mobile payments coming to a loyalty/deals app near you

Groupon is reportedly testing out its own Square rival, a mobile payment system for merchants that will undercut Square and other competitor's transaction fees, according to a report by Rocky Agrawal in VentureBeat.

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Related Topix: iPad App, Groupon, iPhone and iPad App, iPod touch App, iPhone App

The Washington Post

Groupon Said to Test Credit-Card Reader Rivaling EBay's PayPal

Groupon Inc., the largest daily coupon website, is testing a credit card-reader for merchants that could vie with similar devices offered by Square Inc.

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Related Topix: Startups, PayPal, Hunch, Business News

Thu May 24, 2012

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

EXCLUSIVE: 8 Reasons Mark Zuckerberg Deserves the Facebook Windfall

Everyone who lost money on the Facebook IPO, and that's just about everyone in the public markets, hates Mark Zuckerberg - and now Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs .

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Related Topix: Apple, Startups, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs

ConsumerAffairs.Com

Be Careful With Daily Deal Websites

A tough economy and an increasingly mobile, interconnected consumer universe has made daily deal websites like Groupon a hot commodity.

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Related Topix: Marketing

The Orlando Sentinel

Orlando's daily deals for May 24

HotDealsOrlando is offering $20 for $40 worth of food and beverage at Sushi House Orlando .

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Wall Street Journal

The Daily Start-Up: Comcast Backs BodyMedia For Health Gadget

Comcast Ventures, which has been making investments for several years in providers of information technology for the health-care industry, has made its first-ever investment in a health-related gadget, leading a $12 million funding round for wearable sensor company BodyMedia.

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Related Topix: BodyMedia, Venture Capital, Emerging Technology

I-Newswire.com

DealsMagazine.com Nominated for Multiple Web Awards

DealsMagazine.com, the first deal site to offer user-customized shopping areas and a print edition, proudly announces its nomination for a Moxie Award and a Chicago Innovation Award.

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Related Topix: us Travel, Travel, Chicago Travel

Wed May 23, 2012

Big News Network.com

A Groupon dinner at Baltimores Bluegrass Tavern

As a Kentucky Colonel myself, I had been looking forward to trying the fine aged Kentucky bourbon whiskey cocktails -- as my friend Col.

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Related Topix: Drink, Bourbon Whiskey, Liquor

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