American Express has launched an iPhone application feature that offers daily deals to consumers targeting their purchase history and location. The ‘My Offers’ feature, is an add on to American Express’s existing iPhone app. Most of the bugs have been worked out, so It should be up and running. The beta test areas include New [...]

DiscountOn.com.au is an Australian website founded by Ben Stefanescu, a tech entrepreneur who viewed the daily deal and massive-discount industry with some skepticism. The Herald Sun interviewed Stefanescu and he spoke about what experiences influenced him to start his site, and why he feels that normal daily deal sites aren’t beneficial on a long-term basis, [...]

Mordy Levine and his partners Sasha and Jered Cherry had a mission: To create a daily deal site whose main goal is to donate to non-profits. Getting in on the daily deal business is easy, but it’s making a successful run which can prove difficult; but these entrepreneurs are sure that their approach is the [...]

Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne.  Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of customizable deal software solutions and training. Getting your emails past an ISP’s deliverability standards alone is a significant barrier.  Getting your emails opened and links clicked is an entirely different barrier.  Like many of you, I am [...]

NoMoreRack is a flash sale site that is making strides in its goal to become the TJ Maxx of the web. The company was founded in Vancouver and is only 17 months old and is enabling consumers to afford items they usually couldn’t by buying overstock directly from the suppliers. The site offers goods from [...]

A number of former LivingSocial sales representatives are filing suit against the daily deal company, claiming the company failed to pay its sales force as hourly employees and grant them overtime pay. The initial suit is being filed in LivingSocial’s home base, Washington D.C. and the complaint is being handled by attorneys at Nichols Kaster, [...]

With the growth of group buying in the past two years (seemingly with the speed of a European bullet train), the industry is bound of lose a little bit of steam. With the issue of ‘e-mail fatigue’ and expired vouchers, and repetitive deals, the industry is having to diversify its offerings and premium programs is [...]

UK-based BagThat has just snagged a neat $3.2 million in funding in a round being led by Oxford Capital. The combination auction and group buying site says it will use the new funds to enhance its services. Daily Deal Media’s own Stephanie Taylor introduced BagThat earlier this month following the company’s launch in London. BagThat [...]

There are so many smaller countries in Europe, it doesn’t often occur to us that group buying is popular in pretty much all of them. Take this report from the Croatian Times for example. The online news portal is reporting that within the last two years, over 60 group buying websites have popped up in [...]

Almost exactly a month ago, I wrote about a site that was soon-to-launch, called SheSpree. The site was founded and is led by Paula Richer and launched at the end of April; and it’s all about the ladies. The site is based in Marin County, California (near San Francisco) and features deals aimed towards women, [...]