Dealfind: What Happened and a Closer Look at the Merger with TeamBuy
As most of you have heard, Dealfind merged with TeamBuy back in January following a turbulent time at Dealfind which included sweeping changes in management and an alarming amount of complaints about customer service, order fulfillment and product value.
We have profiled Dealfind many times on DDM and tracked their impressive growth into one of the leading daily deal sites across Canada. So what went wrong? What really happened and what’s in store for this company now that they’ve merged with TeamBuy?
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Jimmy Fallon and Twitter Assist In Lincoln’s Super Bowl Debut
Coca-Cola, Audi, and Doritos are not the only businesses that will incorporate social media into their Super Bowl ad this year. Recently, Detroit’s Ford Motor Company announced plans to put together a Super Bowl ad that incorporates tweets about the Lincoln brand.
Late night television talk show host Jimmy Fallon is working with Lincoln to debut the one minute, $8 million dollar commercial, which is currently being shot in California. Lincoln’s Super Bowl debut will feature tweets sent to Jimmy Fallon…
Lightbank Sets Their Sight On The Big Apple
Lightbank, a venture capital company started by Groupon, has designated New York as their first office outside of Chicago. The office will be headed by Lightbank principal Vicki Levine and located in the flatiron district. New York was chosen because of the interest in investing in Series A rounds of East Coast start ups concerning ecommerce, as well as health and media. Also, it will be able to better serve the NYC start ups it has already invested in.
The big question that arose was why…
Unlocking Smartphones Is Now Illegal
This Saturday it will become illegal to unlock a new smartphone without the permission from the wireless carrier that locked it in the first place. This spurs from a final ruling last October by the Librarian of Congress (PDF), which oversees the implementation of rules for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
Unlocking a smartphone means purchasing the phone from one carrier network, like Sprint, and then when the user switches carriers they “unlock” the sprint phone so it can be used on the…
Groupon Obtains Glassmap, A Location Sharing And Discovery Service
Groupon recently announced the acquisition of Glassmap, a real-time location sharing and local discovery service primary focused for iOS and Android services. The financial aspects were not revealed but the deal makes sense.
While Groupon offers customers location specific deals, the company has no way to send deals that are relevant to specific customers, meaning, Groupon may send people deals based on their location, but they are unaware of where consumers are frequently shopping, eating and planning activities at.
Groupon’s interest in customer…
Dealfind and TeamBuy.ca Announce Merger
TeamBuy.ca and Dealfind.com, two of Canada’s leading e-commerce companies, are pleased to announce a transformational merger that creates Canada’s largest online deals destination.
The transaction—the largest ‘daily deal’ merger in North American history—brings two of the strongest brands in the industry together to offer an unrivaled array of unbeatable deals to over 3.5 million members combined—including a million throughout the United States. Both companies began as ‘deal-a-day’ sites, evolving rapidly to become leaders in the broader flash sales and e-commerce space across various categories.
“From a consolidation perspective, this merger gives us a rock solid foundation where one in every…
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…
“Will Running a Daily Deal Just Give You Deal-Hungry Customers?”
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.
One of the primary complaints merchants have about running a daily deal is that they attract deal-hungry customers. And this is in part true; you will attract deal-hungry customers.
Yes, a certain portion of buyers of daily deals will be deal hungry customers. These folks ordered a coupon from a bargain website. It’s rather obvious. On the other hand, deal hungry…
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…
Former Best Buy CMO, Barry Judge, Joins LivingSocial as Chief Marketing Officer
Change seems to be in the air right now. Best Buy’s former global chief marketing officer
Barry Judge has taken on the role of Chief Marketing Officer for LivingSocial. Judge will look forward to overseeing all marketing responsibilities for the online company, including: online and offline advertising, brand management, social media, and communications.
District-based LivingSocial has unique and diverse offerings each day allowing customers to buy and share the best things to do in local cities. Based in Washington, D.C., LivingSocial now has more than 70…
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