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Google Offers Beta Goes Live, First Coupon In Portland

, Jun 1st 2011 Discuss [5]

The recent unveiling of Google Wallet revealed that the coupon and deals program called Google Offers would play a significant role in the new mobile payment system. Google Offers was announced back in April when it started taking early signups in the areas of Portland, New York, and San Francisco. Today, the beta version of Google Offers has officially gone live Portland. Read The Full Story

AT&T Launching Its Own Groupon Rival

, May 3rd 2011 Discuss [1]

The daily deals arena is getting crowded as more and more big names in the industry unleash their own Groupon clones. The latest giant to step in the ring is AT&T. The company has just announced that it will be launching a daily deals service under its YellowPages brand. Simply known as YP Deals at the moment, the service has already begun accepting pre-registrations. Read The Full Story

Facebook Deals is a Groupon rival

, Apr 26th 2011 Discuss [1]

It seems that in the tech world once a company has a good idea their is a rush of other companies that try to cash in on the same idea with a small twist. Groupon is a deals service that sends out coupons and other deals to users that they can use to save some money on the things they like to purchase. Once Groupon started getting headlines other competing services started to launch with some of them being from huge firms like Google's Google Offers service. Read The Full Story

Google Rolls Out Groupon Competition With ‘Google Offers’ Beta Launch In Select Cities

, Apr 21st 2011 Discuss [1]

It was leaked back in January that Google was busy at work on a Groupon rival called Google Offers. At the time the service appeared almost identical but later leaked reincarnations suggested that Google may be taking a slightly different approach. Today, however, will be the first day that folks may get a more definitive look on exactly what Google has to offer. Their new coupon service gets an official beta launch today starting in Portland with San Francisco and New York to follow. Read The Full Story

Groupon coming to cash registers as coupons get technical

, Mar 9th 2011 Discuss [1]

Groupon is in talks with electronic payment hardware provider Verifone over integrating easier coupon redemption into its systems. According to Groupon president Rob Solomon, speaking to Businessweek, Verifone is among a number of companies the group purchase site is holding discussions with, and may involve the addition of a dedicated Groupon button to cash registers so that businesses could more easily deal with shoppers using the discounts. Read The Full Story

Microsoft’s Bing Will Now Give You Daily Deals

, Mar 3rd 2011 Discuss [1]

Daily deal sites like Groupon, Living Social, and Gilt have exploded in popularity these past few years. Microsoft is hoping to collect all deals from these various sites and organize them for you in a nice little package. They plan to incorporate this service into their Bing search engine so that when users do a local search these deals will show up alongside the results. Read The Full Story

Groupon pulls controversial ads

, Feb 13th 2011 Discuss [5]

Remember those strange, controversial Groupon Ads that got everyone upset because they poked fun at raising awareness for such causes as Free Tibet and Saving the Whales?  The idea had to sound good on paper.  Make a commercial talking about some great causes, raise awareness, while letting people know about your product at the same time.  Only, it didn't actually work out that way, so  Groupon has bowed to pressure from complaining special interest groups and pulled the Ads while offering an apology. Read The Full Story

Groupon Super Bowl Ad Makes Fun of Tibet & Whales, Provokes Ridiculous Controversy

, Feb 7th 2011 Discuss [7]

The group coupon buying site Groupon may have damaged its image forever, thanks to a series of Super Bowl ads that were...actually pretty funny. The first one leads in with Timothy Hutton doing a charity commercial-style introduction about the horrors of Chinese-dominated Tibet...and then abruptly bragging about a groupon deal for dirt cheap Tibetan food. The follow-up ad was a plea from Cuba Gooding Junior to protect the whales...that is almost immediately abandoned because whale-watching is "more fun". Read The Full Story

Google Offers not going head to head with Groupon

, Jan 25th 2011 Discuss [1]

Remember the Google Offers trial set to be a Groupon rival? Well, its coupons are now cropping up in search results and it is not clear whether Google Offers will be much like Groupon after all. Read The Full Story
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