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"Twelve Cupcakes with a Choice of Flavours and Designs for £6.50 from Need a Cake. Value £26." That is what Rachel Brown, 50, posted to Groupon UK, an international branch of the daily deals giant, in the hope of attracting new customers to her online-order bakery. Selling her hand-designed ...

Recently, 18 students bought a discounted tuition voucher from Groupon for a course at Chicago's National Louis University called "Introduction to the Profession and the Craft of Teaching." The students who purchased the offer will pay $950 for the course, a discount of nearly 60 percent off the usual $2,232 ...

Daily deals site Groupon created its own niche in 2009. It was a nifty idea: local businesses would offer huge discounts to lure in new customers, internet prowlers would nab a basic ballroom class ($15), a sake tasting ($19), or a one-hour facial ($35), and Groupon would take a cut for brokering the deal. But ...

Who cares whether it's a bubble or a blip? Daily deal websites like Groupon and Living Social, and their flash-sale sisters like Thrillist and Ideeli are the hottest things online right now, growing faster than kudzu and hiring at a dizzying pace. There are hundreds of openings at these sites' headquarters, ...

Groupon, the online daily deal site, is so desperate for employees that the company is staging a big billboard campaign in Northern California. They're looking to hire at least 100 developers and technologists at its Palo Alto location, but they're still hiring at their home base in Chicago as well. A Google ...

Now that people can buy products from their smart phones and they don't even have to go to their computers anymore, will actual brick-and-mortar businesses become a thing of the past? Will retail clerks, suppliers, advertisers, etc., suffer the same fates as employees of Blockbuster and Borders? ...

Groupon is the company you probably know from its e-discount business selling local services in bulk. Well, it's hiring like crazy, reports Sales-jobs.fins.com. Bringing many more people onboard at Groupon is taking place right along with all the rumors that Google is going to buy it. Couldn't be a more ...