7 posts and columns on clones

Zozi Gets Cozy With Celebrities to Separate Itself From the Groupon Clones

in Commerce on January 24 at 9:00 am PT

After slogging it out for two years in the daily deals business and facing competition from Groupon and hundreds of clones, Zozi believes it has started to find its niche.
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Deal Gone Bad? BuyWithMe Struggles as Investors Sour on Groupon Clones.

in Commerce on October 25, 2011 at 8:53 pm PT

BuyWithMe, one of the early contenders in the daily deals space, has laid off a significant portion of its staff and is now in limbo as it finds raising more capital difficult.
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Former DoubleClick Execs Create Groupon Competitor, But It's Not Exactly A Clone

in Commerce on March 9, 2011 at 4:00 am PT

Think there’s already too many Groupon clones? Think again. Group Commerce, which is coming out of stealth today, has the pedigree and the funding to be a viable contender. What’s more, it is coming out of the gate running with four major publishing partners already signed up on its publisher platform.

What Do Groupon Clones Look Like? A Mother Lode of Niches.

in Commerce on January 26, 2011 at 12:39 pm PT

With Groupon’s and LivingSocial’s success at securing hundreds of millions of dollars in financing and achieving hyper revenue growth, who wouldn’t want to copy their business model? In an industry that is only a year-or-so old, the trend of the past five minutes (or so it seems) is to target moms.

Multiplicity: China Begins Cranking Out iPad Clones

in Mobile on March 31, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

With the iPad, Apple hopes to create a new category of device, one that, in the words of CEO Steve Jobs, is “more intimate than a laptop and so much more capable than a smart phone.” And though the iPad is unproven at market, some Chinese electronics manufacturers are betting that it will succeed in doing just that. And they’re cloning the hell out of the device.

Time Inc. Pines for a Kindle Killer–If Someone Else Builds It

in Media on September 10, 2009 at 3:35 pm PT

Is Time Inc. building a Kindle Killer? Nope. A report suggests that Time Inc. wants to get into the hardware business and produce its own e-reader. That’s something other publishers, like Hearst and News Corp., are actually doing or have at least mulled. But multiple sources familiar with the Time Warner unit’s thinking say that’s not the case here.
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