Groupon

LivingSocial now serves 627 markets globally. The Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) competitor has announced that it has added 15 new markets to its roster, with eight going toward LivingSocial's family deals, and seven going toward the daily deals: New locations for family deals: Ann Arbor, Mich....

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...

The daily deals site has announced an appointment management feature designed to increase merchant productivity. One of many merchant productivity tools offered by Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), the new tool – Groupon Scheduler – provides merchants with an “easy way to manage their schedules and accept...

“To the extent that the IPO price is a forecast of the secondary market price for the stock, these forecasts are not only biased downward (underpricing), but the range of the forecast (or pricing) errors is huge,” according to The Variability of IPO Initial Returns, Lowry, Officer, and Schwert....

The Benchmark Company provided color on Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) in a research report published today. The Benchmark Company has a Buy rating and $32 price target on Groupon. In the report, The Benchmark Company states, "We recommend purchase of the shares of Groupon (GRPN-Buy-PT $32) given that it...

Venture capital firms are the life blood of the Internet industry, as new firms pop up seemingly every day in a variety of different fields. Heck, Benzinga is funded by a venture capital firm, LightBank, which was funded by Eric Lefkofsky and Brad Keywell, co-founders of Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN)....

GSV Capital (NASDAQ: GSVC) founder and CEO Michael Moe explains. As one of the most outspoken tech investors, Moe pulls no punches in sharing his predictions. This week he told Benzinga that he believes that Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) could rise to $50 per share. He made a bold move in predicting the...

Can anyone tell how well LivingSocial is actually doing? Probably not. We know the site is popular, and we know that it broke a record or two by selling a zillion $20 Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) gift cards for half price. But is that a genuine measure of success? If I sound cynical, it's because I'm a...

Perhaps the question should be, “Is EVERY company losing money on Facebook ads?” I've written about this before. Facebook reportedly charges somewhere in the range of $1.74 per click and $0.75 CPM. While the latter rate might be a fair value considering the expense of advertising on sites that don...

If you thought it was the end of the line for public debuts, think again. GSV Capital's (NASDAQ: GSVC) Michael Moe told Benzinga this week that he thinks Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) – which had its public debut last Friday – is just the beginning. “This, to me, is analogous to the eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY)...

“In order to really get this to be scalable….you have to flip it around so that the merchant has control,” adds Adility EVP Kenny Douglas. With today's launch of Groupon's (NASDAQ: GRPN) long-awaited IPO, merchants and competing daily deals sites alike are watching with a close eye. Adility, a San...

Doug Kass tweeted that he is short Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN). Henry Blodget of Business Insider tweeted at him and asked if it was tough to borrow, to which Kass responded that he did not have a problem.

An unofficial “take that!” to all of Groupon's critics. It's no secret that Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN) and Benzinga are closely connected. Early this spring, Lightbank – the technology investment vehicle from Groupon co-founders Brad Keywell and Eric Lefkofsky – invested $1.5 million in our company....

UPDATE: Groupon has started trading. It started trading at $28 per share, up from the $20 per share it was offered to the public at. This is a gain of 40%. Groupon's (NASDAQ: GRPN) CFO Jason Child was on CNBC as the company is getting ready to trade, and had some interesting things to say about...

The Benchmark Company has published a research report on Groupon (GRPN) commenting on the company's IPO announcement and search for $11.5 billion in capitalization. In the report, Benchmark writes, "Groupon commenced an investor road show for its initial public offering and filed amendment...