{"id":14351,"date":"2010-12-01T10:37:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T09:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/en\/?p=14351"},"modified":"2019-08-12T15:16:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T13:16:10","slug":"google-to-enter-the-commercial-bargains-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/en\/google-to-enter-the-commercial-bargains-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Google, to enter the commercial bargains business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times unveiled yesterday the deal, but neither Google, nor Groupon have still officially confirmed that the search engine is in talks to purchase US Chicago based Groupon, a company devoted to offer all kind of bargains of US retailers, including services, products, restaurant reserves, etc.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14354\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Rob_Solomon_Groupon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14354\" src=\"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Rob_Solomon_Groupon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Rob_Solomon_Groupon.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/Rob_Solomon_Groupon-768x676.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Rob Solomon President &amp; CEO Groupon. \u00a9 Groupon<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Groupon negotiates huge discounts, usually 50-90% off, with popular businesses. Then Groupon send the deals to thousands of subscribers in our free daily email.<\/p>\n<p>Following the information published by Associated Press today, Google could pay $6Bn for the company, far above the $3.2Bn by the search engine for DoubleClick.<\/p>\n<p>Through the purchase of Groupon, Google would enter itself in this interesting business segment, in which Facebook had already stepped into some months ago through its Deals service.<\/p>\n<p>Other companies like atrapalo.com (catchit. com) pioneered this on-line bargain concept. Today they are operating in a more than profitable business segment.<\/p>\n<p>Groupon has not unveiled its sales figures, but the pioneer atrapalo.com has done it.<br \/>\nThe company posted \u20ac170 million revenues in 2009 and plans to open its third subssidiary in Europe (France) and its second subsidiary in Latinamerica (Brazil) before end 2010.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Image over the headline.-<\/strong> Groupon logo. \u00a9 Groupon<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times unveiled yesterday the deal, but neither Google, nor Groupon have still officially confirmed that the search engine is in talks to purchase US Chicago based Groupon, a company devoted to offer all kind of bargains of US retailers, including services, products, restaurant reserves, etc. Groupon negotiates huge discounts, usually 50-90% off, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/en\/google-to-enter-the-commercial-bargains-business\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google, to enter the commercial bargains business<\/span> Leer m\u00e1s &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[9601,9602,908,9600,1170,417,678,671,6119,9603],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14351"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14351"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastwind.es\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}