Groupon Now!is a spin on the traditional Groupon model of offering one deal a day in your local area. Instead of just one deal a day, it offers local deals at any moment of the day. If you’re walking down the street and are wondering what kinds of deals are near you, just pop open the Groupon NOW website or themobile appand punch in your location. You’ll then be presented with a list of deals in your area....
It looks likeChinais not the only country getting Groupon this week as the popular group-buying site announces the official launch of Groupon United Arab Emirates (UAE). Groupon basically offers discount deals for products and services by partnering up with local businesses. Each deal must meet a minimum quota of sale for the transaction to push through. Not bearing any localized name, Groupon will be operating in the Middle East under the websitehttp://www....
Daily deals giant Groupon is reportedly in talks with location-based social networking service Foursquare to bring offers and deals to users when they check-in at a location,according to AllThingsD. Although Grouponhas its own appson iPhone, Android, BlackBerry and is available via the mobile web, the company still relies on targeted emails to advertise deals. A possible partnership with Foursquare would see the company open the possibility of converting users who don’t subscribe to its lists but it would also move deeper into the location space, something that the compay has started to pursue with its Groupon Now service....
AdAgereports thatGroupon, together with two Boston marketing-services and analytics firms, has just announced its first partnership with a U.S. grocery chain, to introduce its first full traditional grocery integration using a loyalty card system. Massachusetts-based grocery chainBig Ywill start offering deals wherein users can use their loyalty cards to conduct the transaction instead of having to print out a Groupon certificate to redeem the deal. By entering their Big Y Express Saving Club number on the Groupon site at checkout, the deal is automatically loaded onto their accounts, which can redeemed at any Big Y branch....
With Grouponheading for an IPOand plenty of competition in the daily deals space, aggregator sites which pull together offers from a number of different providers offer a useful ‘one stop shop’ for potential customers. However, it appears that market leading Groupon may not be too happy about at least one of them. Malaysian aggregatorDealshelvereceived an email from the CEO of itslocal Groupon outposton Monday this week, threatening legal action if the company’s deals are not removed....
