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YCombinator company, Glassmap , a location-aware app that was big back in the day (last year), has just announced that is has been acquired by Groupon. This makes total sense, because Groupon needs to know where you are, who you’re with and what you’re doing and like, so that it can push more...

Groupon said this morning that its mobile payments service is now available to Android users, after launching first on the iPhone in September. The service allows merchants to accept credit- and debit cards by swiping them through a card reader attached to a mobile device, like an iPhone or iPod...

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason last year set his company a goal of adding more value and diversity to its bread and butter business in daily deals, and today it took one more step in that direction: Groupon Payments — its dongle-based Square/PayPal Here competitor — has now been added to its Merchants...

Groupon — the daily deals site with ambitions to become the go-to platform for all local commerce — is continuing to expand its mobile offerings to meet that goal. The company today is launching a new version of its iPad app . Bringing it up to par with its existing iPhone app, updated this summer,...

Is it time for Groupon to be looking for a buyer? Wall Street is certainly enthusiastic for such an outcome — even grabbing onto a specious rumor that perhaps Google was sniffing around the troubled Chicago-based social discount deals company, which is currently valued at just over $3 billion. On...

Speaking at a mobile conference today, Andrew Mason didn't want to talk about a lot of things, including M&A and changes in management at the company. But he did speak of grand ambitions for Groupon. [Read more]

Groupon said today that Mike DeLuca has assumed the role of VP of sales for Breadcrumb, the company’s iPad-based point-of-sale system for restaurants, bars and cafes . In addition, DeLuca will continue on as the VP of sales and operations for Savored, a restaurant reservation platform. Groupon...

Groupon got put through the meat-grinder last week as founder and CEO Andrew Mason defended himself and managed to hold onto his role after another terrible earnings quarter . Now Groupon is getting down to the business of streamlining: Mike DeLuca, the VP of sales for Groupon’s restaurant...

Yesterday, we were invited to judge a really cool competition, the Dronegames . Basically, a bunch of teams that like to hack on helicopter-like Drones came together in Groupon’s San Francisco office to come up with some really cool creations. I expected things to spin and go upside down, but these...

As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we’re introducing a new TechCrunch TV show called CrunchWeek, where we discuss a few of the past week’s more interesting stories. The aim is to get a bit more into the stories behind the stories that you read about on TechCrunch’s main blog page. This week,...