Tag archive: Coupon

John W. Byers and Georgios Zervas of Boston University as well as Michael Mitzenmacher of Harvard began researching the effect of daily deals on the overall average of a Yelp rating. The trio looked at both Groupon and LivingSocial relationships with businesses that were listed on Yelp and found that the typical rating was 10 percent lower when a business participated in a daily deal. In addition, the volume of reviews increase by about 44… Read More

HP is either generous or quite desperate. Days ago, we reported that HP cut the price of its TouchPad tablet by $50. Well, it's dropping by another $50, at least for this weekend. HP is now offering a $100 off coupon that's good from Aug 5-7, meaning you can pick up a 16GB model for $400 or a 32GB model for $500, about $100 less than the iPad 2. Better still, the TouchPad is currently the woot.com deal of the day, and is priced at… Read More

In the market for a new tablet, laptop, or desktop computer? Well, Chris Chavez of Phandroid has found a Staples coupon that gives you $50 off of any of these items, if you purchase them in person at a Staples store. For your convenience, here is the Staples store locater and here is a link to the coupon, which is valid through 7/16/2011 (Saturday). So if you want to take advantage, you'll have to get moving. We have not tested the… Read More

Groupon was the original daily deals site, but it has spawned some ridiculous offshoots. The local-meets-social-meets-discount aggregator has become a staple of your inbox, and if these coupon curators weren’t personalized enough there are a slew of extremely specific services out there. Startups.com (Groupon for online business owners) After spending some time as a resource for online business owners and website operators as KillerStartups, the… Read More

Terms of the deal have not been disclosed. LogicBuy had over 10 million visitors in 2010 all searching for deals on consumer technology such as laptops, cameras, TVs and software. This acquisition will allow Ziff Davis websites, such as PCMag.com, to provide its audience with the up-to-the-minute deals and coupons on the products they’re researching. At the same time, LogicBuy.com will tap Ziff Davis’ long-running relationships… Read More

This year, it looks like online retailers are making a serious play for your business. As Black Friday and Cyber Monday are rapidly approaching, Groupon is beating them to the punch and beginning Grouponicus celebrations a little early. Announcing its own holiday complete with a mascot (Groupo the Bargain Bird), the daily coupon site is ready to compete with the likes of eBay, Amazon, and Google Product Search for your gift shopping this year.… Read More

Starting today, Groupon deals will be integrated through Yahoo!’s new Local Offers program. Initially, Groupon deals will only be available in the U.S., but plans for international expansion are in place. This is a win for both Groupon and Yahoo. It allows both companies to play off their strengths with Groupon leveraging its breadth and depth of daily deals and Yahoo!’s scale and targeting capabilities highlighted in order to… Read More

As AOL continues down the path of trying to uncover its relevance by means of the let's-throw-darts-at-a-wall-and-see-what-sticks approach, the company has announced today its launching its own deals site, similar to Groupon. It's called Wow. A sentiment which certainly overcame when when we heard about this from Mashable. Wow.com promises to be different from the plethora of other daily coupon sites out there stating on Wow.com,… Read More

The nation's biggest mall operator is teaming up with a Silicon Valley startup to reward smart-phone-equipped shoppers for walking into its shopping centers. The partnership between Simon Property Group, which owns 370 shopping centers, and technology company Shopkick Inc. is a big step in realizing retailers' long-held dream of using cell phones to beam ads and coupons to people passing by. Simon is launching the program by the end… Read More

By now, we’ve all heard that money’s tight, that we’re on the end of the verge of financial apocalypse, and that everyone will have to cut back. But don’t start lining your shoes with cardboard and cooking beans over a garbage fire just yet. Stripping out luxuries may be one way to stretch your dollars, but for the careful shopper, being frugal need only mean looking a little harder to find deals, and the Web can take a lot of effort out of… Read More

Retailers are getting ready to begin offering the U.S. public digital television converter boxes so Americans can keep watching their beloved old-school analog televisions when analog television broadcasts are finally terminated on February 17, 2009. The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has announced that more than 100 consumer electronics retailers (including Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Circuit City, Kmart, Radio… Read More