Kolektiva And Kupon Vilag, Central Eastern Europe’s Leading Daily Deal Group, Celebrate Third Anniversary Of Original Site Launch
Kolektiva, a revolutionary and market-leading daily deal site is celebrating their third anniversary this week, cementing the site as a daily deal contender in Central and Eastern Europe. The site’s first launched January 22, 2010 with an offer for 50% off pizza, pasta and wine at Vapiano, which is similar to American’s Olive Garden and offers casual dining in an Italian style atmosphere. The offer reached out to over 2,000 potential buyers and raked in 42 promotion purchasers by the deal’s end.
Fast forward to present time, Kolektiva…
LivingSocial Loses SVP Of Technology To Berlin Startup
LivingSocial’s SVP of technology, Chad Fowler, recently announced in a blog post he was leaving the daily deal site for an opportunity to take on a chief technology officer position with a startup in Berlin, Germany.
Fowler, who will remain with LivingSocial until the end of January, is one of LivingSocials brightest employees. He joined the D.C. based company through the acquisition of InfoEther, a software and professional information technologies services. The attainment of the company was…
Germany’s XING, the European LinkedIn, Acquires Glassdoor Equivalent Kununu
The New Year has inspired companies all around the world to combine, start fresh, and start the process of becoming worldwide powerhouses in their industry. This is no different for German native company XING. The “German LinkedIn” XING has acquired Kununu, a website similar to Glassdoor, an employer reviewing and assessment site for €9.4 million or $12.3 million with an additional €5.8 million based on performance to 2015.
Vienna-based Kununu allows employment seekers to read current and former…
Apple Store Robbed By NYE Thiefs
Armed robbers in Paris decided to ring in 2013 a little differently than most. They broke into an Apple store and made off with more than a million dollars’ worth of goods, according to recent reports.
The suspects, who wore masks, forced their way into the employee entrance of the store as a janitor was leaving, about three hours after the store’s 6 p.m. closing time, England’s Telegraph reported. The janitor was “lightly injured,” the news outlet said. The Wall Street…
Mobile Commerce Popular with Britain’s Smartphone Users
According to recent research by London-based market research firm, Mintel, Brits are quickly becoming addicted to mobile commerce. Nearly two thirds or 62 percent of all Brits own a smartphone and almost half of those use their mobile device to shop or make purchases.
Topping the list of the most popular mobile purchases is music downloads with 20 percent of users buying tracks through iTunes and similar sites. Buying travel tickets via mobile comes in second at 16 percent with…
Austrian Students File Civil Suit Against Facebook – Seeking Crowd Funding
In violation of European data protection law
An Austrian student group dubbing itself ‘Europe-v-Facebook’ feels that privacy laws have been broken. The group intends to take legal action against Facebook and is in need of financing. Is it possible that the group will use Facebook to help fund the suit? Possibly, as it turns out “Europe-v-Facebook’ is turning to crowd-funding as a means to finance its court case.
The students believe the company is in violation of European data protection law. Europe-v-Facebook is in the initial…
Running Daily Deals Abroad (Part 2)
Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne. Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of daily deal software, solutions, and sales training.
I initially wrote about the daily deal industry abroad and have since been traveling in Europe and have taken notice of a few key things about the deal industry…
My first and foremost observation is that when traveling abroad, daily deal sites do not cater to foreigners. Redeeming coupons and vouchers as a local…
Groupon Appoints Kal Raman as its New COO
Groupon has just announced the hiring of a new Chief Operating Officer.
The deal-a-day giant has appointed Kal Raman as its new COO. This marks a stabilization move for the four-year old company, which has recently come under fire by auditors and shareholders over alleged mismanagement.
In advance of his latest role, Raman served as Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Operations for the Chicago-based company. As COO, he will supervise sales and procedures for Groupon and serve directly under CEO Andrew Mason.
Raman…
KGBDeals Facebook Wall is Plastered by Angry Customers
Spent real money on fake goods
There are several issues that continually keep daily dealers under the microscope. Quality of the products or services promoted, delivering the products in a timely fashion, the validity of vouchers and of course customer service. KGBDeals of the United Kingdom appears to be dropping the ball on all of these issues. The company’s Facebook wall is plastered with angry and very negative comments.
Let’s face it, the barrier to entry for this industry is extremely easy. As with any…
Running Daily Deals Abroad
Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Marc Horne. Marc is a co-founder of DailyDealBuilder.com, provider of daily deal software, solutions, and training.
I am traveling in Paris and Amsterdam for a Workation (part work / part vacation) and one of my objectives is to closely monitor and take note of the workings of daily deals and coupon sites in Europe. We have noticed over the past couple of years that the demand to start a daily deal site in countries outside of the…
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