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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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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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Daily Deals Runner-Up BuyWithMe Hires Jim Crowley As CEO

in Commerce on January 12, 2011 at 7:50 am PT

New York-based daily deals site BuyWithMe has filled its top vacancy, by appointing Jim Crowley to the position of CEO.

BuyWithMe CEO Cheryl Rosner Checks Out

in Commerce on December 14, 2010 at 1:44 pm PT

Cheryl Rosner, the CEO of daily deals site BuyWithMe, has stepped down from the company. BuyWithMe confirmed to eMoney that the decision was mutual. David Wolfe, BuyWithMe’s current chief product officer, has been appointed interim president.

Will eBay Dump StubHub, Too?

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

The online ticket resale business–what most people would call legalized scalping–seems like a pretty decent market. But Ticketmaster may be getting out of it in order to mollify regulators, and an analyst predicts Ebay may do the same to please Wall Street.
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Ticketmaster Makes Up With Bruce Springsteen–And His Fans

in Media on February 24, 2009 at 11:49 am PT

Remember the great Ticketmaster/Bruce Springsteen controversy of 2009? The one where fans of the Boss said they got screwed by the ticketing company everyone loves to hate? The one that prompted Springsteen himself to complain about Ticketmaster and its proposed acquisition of concert giant Live Nation? It’s over!
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The Boss Says No: Bruce Springsteen Already Campaigning Against Ticketmaster-Live Nation Deal

in Media on February 5, 2009 at 12:56 pm PT

The Ticketmaster-Live Nation deal isn’t official yet, but it’s already garnering plenty of opponents. The real question: Who’s going to come out in favor of a deal that helps one of the country’s most disliked companies?