17 posts and columns on tickets

ScoreBig Uses Priceline’s Model to Name Your Own Price for Live Events

in Commerce on April 16 at 8:58 am PT

Here’s a little secret that sports teams and music venues don’t want you to know: They are quietly unloading tons of tickets online for up to 60 percent off. And, now there’s an app for that.
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Ticket Search Expert SeatGeek Gets Front Row Seats on Yahoo

in Commerce on August 22, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

SeatGeek, a two-year-old New York-based start-up that aspires to be the Kayak of sports and concert tickets, has signed a multiyear partnership with Yahoo Sports to drive traffic to its site.
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More Online Shoppers Drove a Spike in E-Commerce Spending Last Quarter

in Commerce on August 8, 2011 at 11:00 am PT

E-commerce spending hit $37.5 billion in the second quarter, up 14 percent from a year ago despite signs of a weak economy.
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Groupon Brings Group-Buying Concept to Concert-Goers With Ticketmaster Partnership

in Commerce on May 9, 2011 at 10:10 am PT

Groupon users will soon have access to limited-time deals on a variety of concerts, sports, theater productions and other live events across North America through a joint venture with Live Nation Entertainment–in other words, with the top dog of them all: Ticketmaster.com.

Trying to Define the Opportunity for Commerce on Facebook

in Commerce on March 18, 2011 at 7:50 pm PT

Adgregate Markets, which helps brands build storefronts on Facebook, has conducted a study to help define the opportunity for social commerce.

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Groupon Gets Screen Test

in News on March 16, 2011 at 8:08 am PT

Groupon Inc. is going to the movies. The fast-growing website, which specializes in mass-emails touting daily coupons, plans to unveil a promotional tie-up with a Hollywood studio Wednesday. It is the first of many offers the site says it is planning with media companies in the coming months.

Bing Launches New "Price Predictors" Travel Feature

in Commerce on February 25, 2011 at 1:39 pm PT

Microsoft’s Bing has launched a new way to search among billions of airfares much faster, while Google’s $700 million acquisition of ITA Software continues to be reviewed by antitrust regulators.

YooMee Games Opens the Chuck E. Cheese of Online Arcades

in Commerce on February 8, 2011 at 4:30 am PT

What do you get when you give casual game players the chance to compete for cash and prizes? A really addictive experience. Or at least that’s the hope of YooMee Games.

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Promoter Crowds Ticketmaster

in News on February 3, 2011 at 2:28 pm PT

One of the nation’s biggest concert and sports promoters said it is joining forces with a start-up technology company to sell tickets to events at 105 arenas and theaters, in what could become a broader battle with Live Nation Entertainment Inc.’s Ticketmaster.

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Expedia Grounds American Airlines Following Dispute

in Commerce on January 3, 2011 at 7:30 am PT

Expedia is banning American Airline tickets from its online travel database, claiming that the airline’s new strategy is “anti-consumer” and “anti-choice.” The decision was made this weekend, and follows a dispute between American Airlines and Orbitz, which removed its listings last month, Reuters reports. Expedia claims American Airlines’ new model will result in higher costs and reduced transparency for consumers, and American Airlines has defended the move, by saying it has seen higher ticket sales without the help of the online travel sites.

One Day, 7,400 Tickets: NYPD Cracks Down on Chatty Drivers

in News, August 25, 2009 at 8:57 am PT

Will eBay Dump StubHub, Too?

in Media, April 15, 2009 at 4:33 am PT

Buying and Selling Among Friends

in The Mossberg Solution, March 3, 2009 at 4:28 pm PT

Barry Diller: Trust Me–You’re Going to Love the Ticketmaster/Live Nation Deal

in Media, February 10, 2009 at 11:03 am PT