Google Offers

The shares of daily deals service, Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), have been publicly traded for five weeks now and it has been quite a rollercoaster ride so far. The shares opened for trading at $28 per share and went as high $31 on the first day. However, within the first two weeks the stock plummeted...

Citing a tweet from Bloomberg West host Emily Chang, Business Insider reports that Groupon is suing two former employees, Brian Hanna and Michael Nolan, for stealing trade secrets. Hanna and Nolan left Groupon for Google Offers, the Groupon clone that Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) launched after failing...

Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) said on Monday that it had agreed to acquire The Dealmap, a startup that aggregates daily-deal offers from around the web. Terms of the deal were undisclosed, but The Dealmap's talent and technology are expected to help bolster Google Offers deals site. The Dealmap was...