Daily Deal Management platform Redeem&Get was announced as the winner of this year’s Spark of Genius competition at the Dublin Web Summit. Redeem&Get offers an innovative platform for merchants to help them manage Daily Deals. “Many merchants who run daily deals find themselves hit by a huge surge of business the day the deal goes live,” says Gene Murphy, [...]

Recently, I had the misfortune (or maybe it was a masochistic sort of pleasure) to spend a Saturday reading the Groupon S-1 – their prospectus for potential investors. As in all of these documents, there is a large section entitled risks. A prominent risk outlined was that there were no barriers to entry into the [...]

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Shane Hayes founder of daily deal aggregator, Siftie.co.uk. It looks like people are a lot more interested in Pampering and Partying that they are in Fitness. Our UK Data Report for July is out and consumers spent nearly £15 million on Health & Beauty, Travel & Accommodation [...]

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Shane Hayes.  Shane is the CEO of daily deal aggregator, Siftie Yipit founder Vinicus Vacanti, has a new blog post up where he concludes that business in “Groupon’s Oldest Markets Got Even Worse.” However, to my mind, the symptoms leading to this diagnosis are exactly the [...]

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Shane Hayes.  Shane is the CEO of daily deal aggregator, Siftie July is a big vacation month, so one of the things we were looking out for in our Siftie Data Report for July was whether or not growth would flatline, or even decline over the [...]

  The Irish Daily Deals space is interesting. The two big boys Groupon and LivingSocial arrived about a year ago and have been pushing the envelope aggressively ever since. Groupon arrived via its acquisition of MyCityDeal in the UK and trades at www.citydeal.ie. LivingSocial set up directly. The competition between the two was highlighted by [...]