BuyWithMe Expands in San Francisco With Purchase of Groop Swoop

BuyWithMe continued its shopping spree today, picking up Groop Swoop, a group buying and social commerce company, in San Francisco. Previously, the New York-based deals company had purchased DealADayOnline in Chicago and LocalTwist in Seattle. BuyWithMe operates in 13 U.S. cities and wants to double that by year’s end.

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Just as the atom bomb was the weapon that was supposed to render war obsolete, the Internet seems like capitalism’s ultimate feat of self-destructive genius, an economic doomsday device rendering it impossible for anyone to ever make a profit off anything again. It’s especially hopeless for those whose work is easily digitized and accessed free of charge.

— Author Tim Kreider on not getting paid for one’s work