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Groupon shoots for the moon with Expedia travel deal and IPO
This is a big week for Groupon. First we find out about “Groupon Getaways with Expedia”, a combination of Groupon’s daily deals with the comprehensive holiday booking of Expedia. Ahead of the launch of their joint-venture later this summer, Groupon and Expedia have already started their press blitz and email marketing campaigns. And now Groupon has announced an IPO. Continue reading
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Tagged expedia, groupon, IPO, mobile, mobile coupon, Travel
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Mobile coupons: the MMA publishes best practices and guidelines
Using your mobile phone to receive, store and redeem coupons is fast becoming standard practice. The power of mobile couponing is pretty easy to impress on a lot of businesses – it’s a fast way to increase customer loyalty, by providing them with money value through their phone which, unlike paper coupons, they are extremely unlikely to forget. But since there are so many ways to send coupons over mobile, the market has immediately become very fragmented and muddled. And so the Mobile Marketing Association (MMA) has today published “Guidelines and Best Practices in Mobile Price Promotions” for North America. Continue reading
Can Time Bomb take on Groupon? I doubt it!
With a tag line like “the Deal of the Day is so yesterday“, Time Bomb is sending a pretty clear message. It’s a mobile deal company, and even before it’s April 1st launch, it is coming after Groupon. What kind of chance does it have? Continue reading
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Tagged daily deals, groupon, mobile, mobile coupon, mobile deals, mobile shopping, shopping, time bomb
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Mobile commerce: VooDoo BBQ signs on with Mobibucks
VooDoo BBQ & Grill is a New Orleans-based restaurant with 13 locations around Louisiana – and it has just signed up with mobile marketing/commerce company Mobibucks to allow customers to pay with just their mobile phone numbers. Continue reading
Eagle Eye jams mobile vouchers and Chip & PIN together
An announcement crossed my desk about a patent win in both the UK and Australia today, for mobile voucher company Eagle Eye. The product it has won the patent for actually looks very interesting – it provides a way to combine mobile vouchers with self-service Chip & PIN devices in retailers. Continue reading
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Tagged australia, chip & pin, chip and pin, eagle eye, mobile, mobile coupon, mobile retail, mobile shopping, mobile voucher, patent, UK
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Groupon launches mobile coupons on KDDI operator portal
Groupon had a fantastic bit of news earlier this week from Hong Kong – it helped to sell a recored breaking 70,000 burgers in 72 hours with fast food Triple O’s. Now we see what might be an even more significant move, as it launches an on-portal service with Japanese operator KDDI.
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Tagged au, groupon, Japan, kddi, mobile, mobile coupon, mobile network, mobile operator, mobile shopping
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Groupon sells 70,000 burgers in 72 hours
Mobile coupon service Groupon has just announced what it calls a record breaking response to one of it’s mobile deals. Apparently it has sold over 70,000 burgers for Hong Kong fast food restaurant Triple O’s. Continue reading
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Tagged groupon, mobile commerce, mobile coupon, mobile shopping, retail, shopping, triple o's
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Mobile location: Poynt nabs patent for coupons and offers
Poynt is a local search provider that works on mobile phones. If you run a search for something using Poynt, it returns the closest results to you. Today it is announcing that it has been awarded a patent for using consumer’s location to deliver relevant coupons and offers to them. Continue reading
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Tagged LBS, location, mobile, mobile coupon, mobile location, patent, poynt
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SMS and mobile web makes easiest coupon service ever
Blogging site Posterous has made a pretty hot announcement concerning mobile coupons today. The mobile-oriented blogging company has revealed new expansions to their mobile coupon engine called Insequent – which uses SMS and the mobile web to deliver mobile coupons in one of the most trouble-free ways I’ve ever seen. Continue reading
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Tagged insequent, mobile coupon, mobile internet, mobile text, Mobile Web, posterous, SMS
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Mobile advertising and marketing hot new: search, bikes and Dell
Here’s the daily round up of the hottest mobile marketing and advertising stories from GoMo News! Mobile search is kicking the hell out of app advertising revenue; Yell launches promotional app for London bicycles; and more… Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Ad&Mktg, Mobile Marketing, mobile news
Tagged advertising, BlackBerry, coupon, Dell, marketing, mobile, mobile advertising, mobile app, mobile coupon, Mobile Marketing, Mobile Search, mobizou, search, yell
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Mobile coupons on Blackberry and iPhone with Shooger and Cellfire
Almost every passing day brings a new mobile coupon story – it just so happens that today we’ve got two! Industry veteran Cellfire is expanding into other iPhone apps, and Shooger is launching for Blackberry – following it’s launch for iPhone and Android earlier this year. Continue reading
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Tagged application, BlackBerry, cellfire, coupon, iphone, mobile, mobile app, mobile coupon, shooger, smartphone, SMS
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Restaurants and cinemas link up through SMS and mobile web marketing
A new advertising campaign is launching today that combines SMS advertising with mobile web and social advertising. Restaurants from the Tragus Group will be linking up with Cineworld movie theaters across the UK, using an SMS-driven service from MePlease. We take a look how the implementation will work. Continue reading
Mobile shopping: WHERE buys into mobile coupons with LocalGinger
One of the growing trends we’re seeing in mobile shopping is “group deals” – this is a model where a mobile coupon becomes available as soon as enough people become interested in it (more details after the break). Today, mobile location company WHERE has announced that it is buying into this market through the acquisition of a company called LocalGinger. Continue reading
