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Groupon has acquired MashLogic, a company based in California that makes a simple tool called Britely to capture and collate bits of information from web pages.

Groupon has acquired MashLogic , the company that developed Britely , a toolbar plugin that allows you to save, for future reference, things you stumble across on the Web. Britely will be shutting down on Feb. 18, according to the company’s blog post . For a year or so now, the daily deals provider...

Groupon may be taking a beating in the press and on Wall Street, but the company is still looking for ways to integrate itself into the fabric of small businesses. Part of doing so is attracting talent – no easy proposition when you’re stock is in free fall. The latest news to come out of the daily...

Two daily deal companies that are far off the radar are joining forces with Half Off Depot agreeing to acquire CrowdSavings for $6.4 million in cash and stock. Together, the two will be rebranded as nCrowd, and will be headquartered out of Atlanta. There are two remarkable aspects to this...

A Belgian mobile operator named Mobile Vikings plans to roll out a daily deal app in April that is designed to give users credit towards their bill when they make purchases in local stores, Ars Technica reports . Like many normal MVNOs, Mobile Vikings current offers users prepaid mobile plans with...

A little more than a month after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., all current and scheduled promotions have been suspended, prompting calls for a boycott of the daily deals site. [Read more]

You're not going to find anymore gun-related deals on Groupon, at least temporarily. The company says the entire fire arms category is under review : More »

Use Groupon Payments for your business? You just got a little more choice -- the popular deal broker just updated its Android app to support credit card transactions. The update brings the fledgling payment service a little closer to Square, which has been available on Android since 2010. If the...

[Note: This is a weekly series. If your company is doing something amazing to help a charitable cause or doing some good in your community, please reach out .] When you think of Groupon, you immediately think of instant deals for restaurants and nail salons. That’s not all the company is about...

Groupon has acquired Glassmap, the location-based deals discovery app, the startup announced on Friday . Groupon confirmed the acquisition to AllThingsD . Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “Our goal when we started building Glassmap was to help people find what was interesting and relevant...