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Adam Goldberg did quite a bit of research before soft-launching OffersBy.me last spring. The ex-Oracle, ex-Google entrepreneur and ClearSaleing co-founder knows a thing or two about ad analytics and has taken this experience with him in his latest startup called OffersBy.me , which is now...

The Securities and Exchange Commission this summer began pressing Groupon Inc. to disclose more details on revenue from its new business lines and on reasons behind the daily-deal site’s financial revision this spring, according to newly disclosed correspondence between the regulator and the...

Since the stock exchanges have come back online following the superstorm in the Northeast, Groupon’s stock has fallen a catastrophic 13 percent to hit a new all-time low. And while the coupon provider will no doubt feel an impact from the storm as restaurants and other services struggle to regain...

We wrote about Recce back in July: a rich, interactive searchable 3D map app created by U.K. startup eeGeo and backed by $4 million Series A funding, which aggregates data feeds from other services such as Twitter to create an animated bird’s eye view of a city and what is going on in it. At the...

The company says that it will deliver money-saving deals to HTC smartphones in five countries across Europe. [Read more]

New Enterprise Associates , the venture firm that has backed Groupon, Salesforce, Workday, Fusion-io, and others, is opening an outpost in Chicago, to serve its growing portfolio in the region. The announcement was made in conjunction with an investment in Chicago-based payments platform Braintree.

The online auction site is testing a new feature called Lifestyle Deals offering everything from meals to massages. [Read more]

Back in May, Groupon purchased Breadcrumb, a point-of-sale system for the hospitality industry meant to erase the clunky systems of past years and replace them with a sleek, affordable iPad app. Breadcrumb offers all the features needed by restaurants, cafes, or bars in a single app, including the...

A few months ago, Groupon quietly scooped up a New York-based startup by the name of Breadcrumb, which, back then, was presumably regarded as a sign of POS-related things to come from the deal-sharing company. Today, nearly five months after its snappy acquisition , Groupon's officially relaunching...

Groupon is primarily known as a company that provides special deals to consumers via a free app , but they've now branched out into the restaurant point-of-sale (POS) system market with a new offering called Breadcrumb . Breadcrumb runs only on the Apple iPad, and client establishments pay US$99 a...