Groupon Returns From Edge of Oblivion
Since bottoming out last November, Groupon shares have more than quadrupled. The company's stock closed yesterday near its 52-week high. Its market cap is back above $ 8 billion, still a far cry from its IPO days, but once again worth more than Nokia.
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Groupon Acquires Local Excursion Site SideTour
Experiencing the extraordinary is a lot easier when it's discounted. This week, Groupon announced its acquisition of online experience market SideTour — a move to bring together unique events and cost-saving deals. SideTour's four-city spread will be …
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Groupon Buys SideTour To Bring You More Intimate, Personalized Events
Groupon, the daily deals pioneer that has recently been attempting to rebrand itself as "the go-to place for consumers to find just about anything, anywhere, anytime," has acquired the two-year-old local events startup SideTour, the company confirmed …
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Groupon, LivingSocial “deal of the day” pros and cons
Groupon Vaults 9%: Stifel Ups to Buy on Mobile Commerce Leadership
Shares of Groupon (GRPN) are up $ 1.02, or almost 9%, at $ 12.57, after Stifel Nicolaus's Jordan Rohan raised his rating on the shares to Buy from Hold, and set a $ 16 price target, given he thinks growth is accelerating in the company's U.S. operations …
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Groupon Bolsters its Offerings With SideTour Deal
The deal, for an undisclosed sum, is part of Groupon's effort to differentiate away from daily-deals rival LivingSocial and others by providing unique experiences and activities that can't be found anywhere else, said Edward Woo, an analyst for …
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Andrew Mason: What I’ve Learned at Groupon
