LivingSocial's Tim O'Shaughnessy About Local Deals and Not Being Groupon!
Yesterday, before LivingSocial announced the acquisition of the social adventure company Urban Escapes, BoomTown sat down to talk with its CEO and co-founder Tim O’Shaughnessy. The entrepreneur has...
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Amazon Poised to Make a Major Strategic Investment in LivingSocial to Counter...
With the red-hot acquisition dance between Google and Groupon sucking up all the attention, it’s easy once again to ignore the No. 2 player in the fast-growing social buying space–LivingSocial. But...
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LivingSocial CEO Has Big Plans Now that Amazon Is in His Back Pocket
Groupon’s co-founder and CEO Andrew Mason has stolen the spotlight recently, by appearing on the “Today Show” and being interviewed on “Charlie Rose.” But it’s hard not to make news when you turn down...
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LivingSocial Offers Screaming Deal on One-Night Hotel Stay for $10,000!!
Group-buying site LivingSocial has kicked off a luxurious offer today, and while it is half off the retail price, it’s still not cheap. For the bargain-basement price of $10,000, you will receive a...
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Even More AsiaD Speakers: Yahoo's Yang, HTC's Wang, Samsung's Hong and More!
With AsiaD just a little over a month away, Walt Mossberg and I are adding even more speakers to the list, for what we hope will be an awesome event in Hong Kong. Taking place from Oct. 19 to 21, the...
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Final AsiaD Speakers: Apple's Phil Schiller and Former VP Al Gore
And then there was Schiller and Gore. That would be Apple’s SVP of worldwide product marketing Phil Schiller and former Vice President Al Gore, who round out the stellar list of speakers at our...
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The Globalization of D: All Things Digital Begins Now
And so our international expansion of D: All Thing Digital starts and we could not be more proud that it begins here in Hong Kong, with AsiaD. So why Asia? It seemed the most obvious choice for us, as...
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LivingSocial Dishes About Deals at AsiaD
While AllThingsD is just making its debut in Asia, LivingSocial has been on the ground for a while here, recently scooping up deal sites in Thailand, Korea and elsewhere. CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy is being...
View ArticleLivingSocial: Highlights From AsiaD (Video)
LivingSocial CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy took the stage at AsiaD today alongside the co-founders and CEO of two companies he’s recently acquired — Ticket Monster’s Daniel Shin and Ensogo Group’s Paul...
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The LivingSocial Trio Talk Asian Expansion, Groupon and More: The Full AsiaD...
We are now posting the full videos from the recent AsiaD conference, which took place in Hong Kong in October. Over the next week or so, we’re going to follow the schedule of the actual event. Up now:...
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Exclusive: LivingSocial Launches "Room Service" Food Delivery (Cloth Napkins...
Today, LivingSocial is announcing Room Service, which delivers high-end meals to your door — complete with dishes, candles and cloth napkins. The Washington, D.C.-based company will also be trying out...
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LivingSocial Says It Has No Plans to Be a Mobile Payments Provider
LivingSocial has no plans to build a payment system for local merchants, but it does see itself playing a role in building loyalty programs and other merchant services. During an all-day media event...
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LivingSocial Experiments With Daily Deals, and It's Like a Virtual Club Med
LivingSocial took the daily deals business offline four months ago when it opened the doors to a state-of-the art building in Washington, D.C., called 918 F Street. In that short time, the venue has...
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Amazon's Q3 Results Fall Short of Analyst Expectations
Amazon’s revenue in the third quarter narrowly missed analyst projections, and its losses were wider than expected. The online retailer’s net loss totaled $274 million, or 60 cents a share, on sales of...
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LivingSocial Weighs Down Amazon Earnings, but That Doesn't Tell the Whole...
Amazon reported a wider net loss than it expected, largely because of a massive write-down it made in conjunction with its investment in LivingSocial. The losses not only make the retail giant look...
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Confirmed: LivingSocial Slashes 400 Jobs in Attempt at Profitability
LivingSocial, the second-largest daily deals company in the U.S., has confirmed it is laying off 400 employees, or about 10 percent of its workforce, as it tries to turn a profit. A spokesman confirmed...
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Former Best Buy CMO Barry Judge Joins LivingSocial to Head Marketing
LivingSocial has appointed former Best Buy CMO Barry Judge to the position of chief marketing officer. Judge headed up marketing at the electronics retailer for four years, until May, when he resigned...
View ArticleLivingSocial Gets a Much-Needed $110 Million Boost
LivingSocial Inc. recently raised $110 million from existing investors, giving its coffers a much needed boost after the daily-deals company’s 2012 losses widened by 30 percent last year. Chief...
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LivingSocial CTO and Co-Founder Departs Company
Aaron Batalion, chief technical officer of the social deals site LivingSocial, will leave the company, he announced Friday on his personal blog. “We built a culture I am proud of and millions of...
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LivingSocial Hacked -- More Than 50 Million Customer Names, Emails,...
LivingSocial, the daily deals site owned in part by Amazon, has suffered a massive cyber attack on its computer systems, which an email from CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy — just sent to employees and obtained...
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Can LivingSocial Reignite Its Once-Bright Future?
It has certainly been a rough 2013 for LivingSocial. The daily deals company had to cope with an erroneous report about its $110 million funding round, a hack of customer information and a sloppy...
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Does LivingSocial Have an Identity Crisis?
After a rough first half of 2013, it’s still very much an open question whether LivingSocial will ever find sustained growth or reclaim its brief tech-darling status. For now, the Washington, D.C.,...
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Before Groupon Came Calling, LivingSocial and Ticket Monster Were Once One...
Ticket Monster’s mascot Yesterday, LivingSocial announced a somewhat surprising buyer for its Korean business Ticket Monster: its main competitor Groupon. The deal, worth $260 million in cash and stock...
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"Ashamed and Embarrassed" LivingSocial Says Ongoing 30-Hour Outage Should End...
LivingSocial said in a blog post on Wednesday night that it is close to fixing the issue that has crippled its website, mobile apps and business-customer portal for the past 30 hours. “Suffice to say,...
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LivingSocial to Run Discount Promotions in Wake of 40-Hour Outage
How low can LivingSocial’s prices go? In a bid to make amends for a rare 40-hour outage that crippled its website, apps and merchant center on Tuesday and Wednesday, LivingSocial is running promotions...
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