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American Express Leverages Spending History, Location For Mobile Deals You Actually Care About

My Offers taps what AmEx calls the "spend graph" to give cardmembers access to deals and discounts at nearby merchants. And it knows your mom couldn't care less about getting 50% off tickets to a three-day electro-fest. READ MORE

Do Groupon And LivingSocial Do More Harm Than Good?

The Groupon hangover is setting in, and providers and retailers alike are looking for a Bloody Mary.READ MORE

Zipcar Targets Europe With Barcelona Car Sharer Buy, PayPal To Launch Daily Deals In 2012, Google Buys Alfred

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Is Daily Deals Dashboard Frugalo The Cure For Groupon Fatigue?

Daily deals dashboard Frugalo launched this week, providing a central hub for shoppers to consolidate their deal hunting and reduce the barrage of notifications they receive from all of the sites.READ MORE

Wrapp It Up: Spotify Founding CTO’s Startup Hopes To Cure Merchants’ Daily Deals Woes

A mobile app that lets people send gift cards to friends is not the work of a deals company. But it is using discounts to deliver customers--especially the specific demographics individual merchants want--into brick-and-mortar stores.READ MORE

Deals Company Valuations Are Plummeting: Report

A new study says the daily deals field is glutted with copycats, and it’s up to Groupon and LivingSocial to prove the model works.READ MORE

Don't Have Time To Haggle Your Daily Deals? oBaz Can Help

Daily Deals sites are still raging, but typically you only get what you're offered. So what would happen if a company listened to a group of consumers and tried to arrange a deal based on what they want? That's what oBaz--launching today--is trying to do.READ MORE

Microsoft Social Network "Tulalip" Leaked? Eversave Sold For $30M, SpaceX's Big Rocket Plans, Groupon Coupons Questioned

There's a sketchy leak about a Microsoft social network. Daily deals site Eversave sold for $30M, Sony Ericsson hit by earthquake woes, SpaceX's big rocket future gets going. This and more important news from your Fast Company editors, with updates all day. READ MORE

The Virtual Coupon Is The Penny Dropping

As SavingStar adds Buddy Media CEO Michael Lazerow to its board, are we seeing the evolution of a virtual currency for social networks? The Zynga IPO should provide another clue.READ MORE

Google Takes On Skype, Daily Deals Snag First-Time Customers, Shazam Raises $32 Million

The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of who's breaking into and shaking up your tech space--updated all day.READ MORE

Stuck With A Groupon Coupon You Can't Use? Deal Wallet Is An App For That

Daily deals are a great idea--until you buy one, can't use it, then it expires, and you lose money. But what if you had an app that managed all the deals you buy from different providers, and which let you sell unusable coupons? READ MORE

Facebook's Hack-A-Months Cause Disruption, Innovation

Yep, they are 30-day hack-a-thons--and they are helping launch big products, including Facebook Deals. Welcome to what one Facebooker calls "a playground for engineers."READ MORE

Groupon, Live Nation Bet Discount Tix Will Make Fans Go Gaga With Sharing

Would you tell a friend if you found a $50 Lady Gaga concert ticket for $25? Ok, so GrouponLive is likely to involve far less popular artists, but Groupon and Live Nation are betting you'll still spread the word among friends--and help drum up attendance. READ MORE

How AT&T Could Best Groupon (Hint: Not Just By Saving You More Money)

AT&T expands its forays into the daily deals space, this time through yellowpages.com. Why a telecommunications company may have a natural advantage in daily deals.READ MORE

Google Launches Groupon Competitor, Groupon Poaches Google Exec For COO Job

After dangling a reported $6 billion offer in front of daily deal site Groupon (which it ultimately rejected), Google is forging on with its own service. Today Google unveiled Offers, a new feature that will allow local businesses to show off deep discounts to consumers.READ MORE

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Mob Manager Helps Businesses Handle Groupon-Related Customer Onslaught, Panic Attacks

Groupon can deliver a stampede of new customers to your business. But then what?READ MORE

Microsoft Hopes Daily Deals Make Its Cash Register Go "Bing!"

Microsoft dials up competition in the search-engine wars with its introduction of a daily deals facility on Bing. READ MORE

The Grey Lady Builds the Brand

All the news that's fit to print. Oh, and daily deals. And continuing education courses... The Times, it is a-changin'.READ MORE