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Zozi launched in 2010 to become the go-to destination for those looking for an (affordable) excuse to take break from the daily grind by offering daily deals on a wide range of local adventures — everything from cocktail classes in Atlanta to kayaking in San Francisco Bay. However, after fighting...

As the last of the dust settles on the departure of Groupon’s founder/CEO Andrew Mason, the daily deals and local commerce service today filed an 8-K form with the SEC to detail how it would be compensating his interim co-CEO replacements Eric Lefkofsky and Ted Leonsis; and also giving a sweetener...

When I heard MyTime CEO Ethan Anderson speak at last week’s LAUNCH Festival in San Francisco, the first thing that popped into my mind was: “This company is the answer to the fall of Groupon.” I had already been looking for a Groupon 2.0 since Sarah’s recent article predicting that we will see...

It’s never a good idea as a tech journalist to try to predict the future, particularly in the digital age where those predictions can hang out on the Web mocking you when they are wrong. Nonetheless, I will tell you right now that within the next 10 years we will see another Groupon. By “another...

Groupon Inc. Chief Financial Officer Jason Child said Tuesday the embattled daily-deals company won’t be shifting its business model as it seeks out a new CEO, and argued the firm is on the right track. “I would not expect there to be any business model changes,” Mr. Child said during an appearance...

Groupon's fate remains a question mark, with the company continuing to lose money amid a crowded field of competitors in the online deals marketplace.

Andrew Mason isn’t leaving Groupon empty handed. Groupon’s board gave the 32-year-old chief executive the heave-ho on Thursday, after Mason presided over the controversial and one of the fastest-growing young companies in recent memory. Time will tell whether Mason will be remembered for his antics...

When Andreessen Horowitz invested a whopping $15 million into RapGenius this past fall, they were keen to point out that the platform can be used for things well beyond decoding the meaning of rap lyrics and extend to other forms of wordplay — literature, historical texts, political speeches, and...

In the wake of Andrew Mason's firing as CEO of Groupon, there's been a lot of negativity towards the young entrepreneur. In part it's because Mason was always a character, someone who largely refused to take things seriously, and who preferred to defuse tension with humor, as he did in his...

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