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site Distributed Knowledge / Customer EngagementLaunched in November 2008, Groupon features a daily deal on the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy in more than 300 markets and 35 countries, and soon beyond space.
Groupon features a daily...
document Distributed Knowledge, Open InnovationWhat caught commenters’ attention about the Groupon deals that ran on Tuesday in Denver, DC, and Boston were the lack of specifics — no farmers were named in either the deal description or website,...
document Cloud Labor
The partnership with Groupon is one of several recent high-profile client wins for Clickworker, reflecting the global growth of the company and the rapid expansion of the overall crowdsourcing...
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Firstly, the daily deals marketplace company has bought HyperPublic, a NYC-based local data startup backed by Lerer Ventures and Softbank Capital. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed,...
document Distributed Knowledge
The news comes just hours after news broke that crowdsourcing site - Groupon had bought another mobile startup, Hyperpublic, which makes geolocation technology.As a result of the acquisition,...
document Distributed KnowledgeGroupon has offered no further comment except to note, “We’re excited to have him.” Groupon, like Zynga relatively new to the public markets, has a tall order ahead of it to drive more revenues as...
document Distributed KnowledgeGroupon has been on a shopping spree lately, buying up a number of startups, including Kima Labs, Hyperpublic, Adku, and others in recent weeks.With the FeeFighters acquisition, the focus is...
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Groupon CEO Andrew Mason wrote:
"Why Groupon? Aren’t we a daily deals company? A glorified mailing list? What our competitors have learned is that success in local commerce requires...
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From its post: “Nokia Maps’ mission has always been to make you feel like a local anywhere, every day. True to this motto, and after working for the past few months with Groupon, Nokia Maps...
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“We had a solid quarter despite challenges in Europe and continued investment in technology and infrastructure,” said Andrew Mason, CEO of Groupon. “We’ve deepened our relationships with a...
document Distributed KnowledgeOn the day, Groupon was off exactly 5%, to a close of $4.75. Running the math, the new Evercore Partners target is some 36.84% lower than the firm’s current closing price. Using a rough...
document Crowdfunding, Distributed KnowledgeEvery day Philanthroper works with one charity, and spurs as many people as it can to give a single dollar to that group. However, to avoid losing all of that money in transaction expenses, the...
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Groupon today announced the launching of Groupon Grassroots. It’s the new identity for Groupon’s old G-Team collective that crowdsourced funding for charities and community events. During the...
article Distributed Knowledge, ToolsOther Up and Comer winners, among others, were shopper-savings crowd-sourcing site MobCart; learning and teaching site MentorMob, surgical tool safety innovator Briteseed; kids’ financial literacy...
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The crowdsourcing company that brings buyers and sellers together in a fun and collaborative way has had a tumultuous year, with shares falling from a 25.84 high point on February 8. At 4.42, it...
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Groupon has just hit a home run. The crowdsourcing site that originated the concept of using collective buying to get a daily deal on local goods and services announced that it is now the choice...
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Comparing the company’s closing price before the decision to its current trading price, crowdsourcing site-Groupon has declined more than 15% since Andrew Mason was kept in the command chair at...
Cloud Labor
Groupon’s decision to award Clickworker.com a substantial contract to lead a large-scale, global translation and optimization project in a number of languages was a landmark award for the crowdsourcing industry. Clickworker’s win was a win for Clickworker and a win for the industry! Not only was this award significant in terms of it being an endorsement of crowdsourcing as a competitive delivery model for outsourced services by the global Internet coupon giant, but the fact that Groupon went public with the announcement was in itself momentous!
Last week I spoke with Clickworker’s CEO, Wolfgang Kitza, to not only congratulate him on his company’s win but to also find out more about Clickworker’s strategy and to learn more about what was needed to support the adoption of crowdsourcing by global brands.
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document Distributed KnowledgeAs of August, the app has been downloaded more than a million times. According to AdWeek, the founders are now experimenting with partnerships with other start-ups such as deals site Scoutmob that...