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It’s time to check back in with China’s massive daily deals industry and see how all the Groupon-like sites are progressing in Q1 2013. One of the key findings is

We’re following China’s daily deals market very closely, digging into quarterly market share data as soon as we can get our hands on it. Today it’s time for Q4 2012

We’ve been seeing China’s hotly-contested daily deals industry settle down a bit in the past year – and now new data for 2012 Q3 shows huge consolidation of power (ie:

Now that Groupon’s (NASDAQ:GRPN) official China site, Gaopeng, is effectively controlled by Tencent, the country’s biggest web company, it’s rumored to be entering into a very interesting and social partnership.

You might recall that in June of this year, Groupon China was merged with larger daily deals rival FTuan into a company called GroupNet. And now GroupNet’s CEO, Lin Ning,

New market share stats for China’s fragmented daily deals market in 2012 Q2 in China show the strongest sites consolidating their leads even further. Now, the top 20 group buy

There’s been an awful lot of discussion recently about the Gaopeng (Groupon)-FTuan merger announced earlier this week. It’s big news! On some Chinese sites, I’ve even seen talk of overseas

Exactly as we’d heard was about to happen in recent rumors, it has just been announced officially that Groupon’s (NASDAQ:GRPN) joint-venture in China with Tencent, called Gaopeng, will merge with

The long-running saga over the fate of Gaopeng, Groupon’s (NASDAQ:GRPN) joint-venture in China (with Tencent) is not over yet, with the most recent rumors today suggesting that a business merger

Groupon’s (NASDAQ:GRPN) daily deals site for China, Gaopeng, which is run as a joint-venture with Tencent (HKG:0700), looks like it is a pawn in the upcoming restructuring of Tencent’s group