Daily-Deal Sites Undergo Shakeout - WSJ.com

The online business of serving up daily deals has attracted millions of dollars in venture capital and spurred dozens of clones of market leaders Groupon Inc. and LivingSocial Inc. Now the industry is starting to shake out.Enlarge ImageDEALSCloseDEALSRob Bennett for The Wall Street JournalDavid Ambrose likens the online daily-deals business to an 'arms race.'Nearly one-third of all daily-deal sites nationwide—or 170 of 530—have shut down or been sold so far this year, according to daily-deal-site aggregator Yipit.com, including sites with names such as Scoop St. and RelishNYC. Even big operations such as Facebook Inc. and Yelp Inc. that could capitalize on their large audiences to build a daily-deals business have recently pulled back on the service.

Daily-Deal Sites Undergo Shakeout - WSJ.com

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Dealsta » Woolworths – the mobile people

Woolworths shopping app – A fresh analysis * September 2, 2011 * Natasha Rawlings (introduction by Australian Food News)IntroductionAustralian Food News recently reported on a new iPhone application introduced by Woolworths for use by its customers. The following presentation was prepared for clients of food industry lawyers FoodLegal, by direct-marketing smartphone guru Natasha Rawlings. Natasha is the CEO of Dealsta, a company that has been developing apps for several industries (although not currently in the supermarket space). Natasha Rawlings has held senior marketing positions in some of the largest direct-marketing companies in the world. In this presentation, Natasha Rawlings reviews the Woolworths app as well as highlighting the recent trends in iPhone / Android applications.

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