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Visa is Coming to Mobile Next Week to be Everywhere You Want to Be

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 6, 2011 at 9:55 am PT

Visa is fulfilling its promise of being “everywhere you want to be,” beginning as soon as next week, when it plans to make an announcement regarding its mobile payments strategy.

Gap Partners With Visa to Send Location-Based Offers to Your Phone

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on April 21, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Here’s another variation on the idea that we will one day get offers sent to us on our phones when we are in the vicinity of a retail store. This time it’s from Visa. And, this time, it requires no application download and very little user engagement.

Yahoo's Ad Talent Loss Is Groupon's Gain: Lee Brown Will Be Social Buying Phenom's Head of National Sales

Kara Swisher in News on December 8, 2010 at 11:28 am PT

Lee Brown, who heads up Yahoo’s advertising efforts in its key New York region, is taking a post at Groupon as an SVP, focused on national accounts such as Gap and others that the start-up has recently begun targeting. Groupon, which has been around only since 2008, has built a giant business in a short time by linking customers with mostly local merchants via daily discounted deals.

Silicon Valley's Latest Geek: Barbie Gets a CS Degree

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on November 23, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

Of course, All Things Digital went. How could we not, what with Microsoft, Mattel and the Girl Scouts of America holding a joint event last week to talk up their new partnership aimed at halting the expanding gender gap in the tech sector. Their weapon of choice? Barbie.

Nordstrom and Oprah Take Groupon Down

Liz Gannes in Social on November 19, 2010 at 10:06 am PT

Groupon has been slow or completely down for the last two hours. The leading daily deal site is today featuring a deal for half off at Nordstrom Rack (spend $25 and get a coupon worth $50). It’s a somewhat ironic situation given Groupon is known for physically overwhelming retailers with its armies of deal buyers.

Liveblogging the Facebook Mobile Event: Single Sign-On for Social

Kara Swisher in News on November 3, 2010 at 10:55 am PT

BoomTown arrived late to the Facebook mobile event for the press due to traffic related to the parade for the San Francisco Giants’ World Series victory–and where I would much rather be right now. Go Giants! In any case, I am here in the cafeteria of Facebook again, where the company continues its attempts to take over the known digital universe before Google does. The latest parry: Single sign-on!

Update: Groupon's Andrew Mason on Clones, the Gap and Mugging Larry Page!

Kara Swisher in News on August 24, 2010 at 5:24 am PT

Last week in Vancouver, BoomTown reunited with Groupon founder and CEO Andrew Mason, in an onstage interview at the Grow2010 conference being held in the lovely Canadian city. While affable and unusually sweet-looking, Mason was cagey as can be about the really juicy stuff–revenues, IPO plans and acquisition scenarios–but he also had a lot to say about the spectacular growth of the social buying service.

Questions for Tony of Zappos and Andrew of Groupon? Step Right Up!

Kara Swisher in News on August 20, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

Later today, BoomTown will be onstage at Dealmaker Media’s Grow2010 conference in Vancouver, Canada to interview Tony Hsieh, CEO and co-founder of Zappos, and Andrew Mason, founder and CEO of Groupon. Got any questions for the cheery online retailer or the affable local group buying czar?

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