daily deals
Steven Millward
In brief: Go-Jek adds daily deals marketplace
It’s called Go-Deals, and covers 15 categories from food to travel.
Jack Ellis · · 1 min read
The group formerly known as KFit has bought Groupon Singapore
Singapore is what’s next for Fave, after acquiring Groupon Indonesia and Groupon Malaysia.
Michael Tegos · · 2 min read
His startup survived 5,000 rivals in China to list on Nasdaq. Here’s what he learned.
2011 saw a massacre of China’s over 5,000 daily deals sites. More than 2,000 of them died that year. Here’s what 55Tuan did to survive.
Terence Lee · · 5 min read
This startup seeks to thrive where Groupon failed
Groupon and its ilk are moving away from daily deals. And startups are leading the way in giving you new ways to save money online.
Jum Balea · · 6 min readEnsogo fires half its team following financial woes
Ensogo lays off over 300 people this year as its losses widen and its cash reserves run low. It’s now ‘centralizing’ operations to become more like Amazon.
Jum Balea · · 2 min readProstitution sting implicates China’s biggest daily deals site
I didn’t know that was one of the deals you could get from Meituan-Dianping.
C. Custer · · 2 min readMerchants angry they’re not getting payments from Ensogo
It’s the latest setback for the ecommerce marketplace, which started out as a daily deals site.
Jum Balea · · 7 min readGroupon got India wrong, but this guy’s doing it right
Ankur Warikoo, CEO of Nearbuy, has taken on the challenge of daily deals in India, and he intends to win.
Meghna Rao · · 7 min readA Chinese tech firm just raised a world record funding round: $3.3 billion (UPDATED)
The Chinese tech titan confirmed it just raised the largest startup funding round ever.
C. Custer · · 1 min read