Groupon is eyeing a move into Thailand’s just months after rival LivingSocial entered the country’s group-buying market. Updated below. The online giant is seeking ‘Senior Management Staff’ to be part of the founding Groupon team in Bangkok. The company is looking to fill at least ten vacancieswhich are advertised on LinkedIn. A move to Thailand makes a lot of sense given that the company has services in Southeast Asian’s most significant markets – including Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines (as Beeconomical), Indonesia (under recently acquired Disdus) – leaving Thailand and its 67 million population a stand-out absentee....

Group buying serviceGrouponhopes to be known more as a technology company than a sales and marketing company in 2011. Meanwhile, it hasn’t made its mind up on whether to go public, despite havingturned downa reported $6bn offer from Google. Speaking during the Local Markets panel event atDLD conferencein Germany today alongside journalist Kara Swisher and Foursquare’s Dennis Crowley, CEO Andrew Mason said that increased personalisation of deals would be a big focus for the company as it develops its service further....

Popular group-buying and booking service websites including Groupon, LivingSocial and OpenTable have been sued in the Virginia Eastern District Court by little-known company SellerBid Inc. for infringing on patents that relate to the offering of goods and services at discounted prices. SellerBid has sued Groupon, LivingSocial, Buywithme and OpenTable for infringing patent numbers US 7,647,024 and US 7,983,616, both of which describe a “Method and system for improving client server transmission over fading channel with wireless location and authentication technology via electromagnetic radiation”....

With news of Groupon’sforthcoming IPO still hot, it’s a good time to take a new, fresh look at the giant company. In fact, it’s odd to call Groupon a massive firm at all, as just moments ago in corporate time the company was nothing but a wee upstart. But then came a potentially$5 billion dollar deal with Google, which Grouponsnubbed. People, myself included, fretted that perhaps Groupon had made a mistake; after all, wouldn’t Google already have been paying a premium for the firm?...

I’m a huge fan of Grove Made’s cases for iPhone. They’re hand crafted out of bamboo and feel great in the hand and in day-to-day use. In addition, they’re simply delicious looking. It’s new iPad 2 case is no exception. In addition to the beautifully finished bamboo shell, the new iPad 2 case is equipped with a segmented leather cover that emulates the form and function of the Apple Smart Cover....