Groupon, Inc.

LivingSocial cyber attack may affect 50 million customers

2013-04-26 15:58:00

LivingSocial, a daily deals website part-owned by Amazon.com Inc., said Friday that it was hit by a cyber attack that may have affected more than 50 million customers.� The company said the attack on its computer systems resulted in unauthorized access...

Groupon dumps chief executive and founder Andrew Mason

2013-02-28 16:49:00

Groupon, the daily deals website with a severe case of crashing stock, fired its chief executive and founder Andrew Mason on Thursday and Wall Street rejoiced. The company’s stock jumped after hours as investors learned that Executive Chairman...

Shareholders get another chance

2013-04-05 00:00:00

It's "proxy season" again for most public companies — called that because most shareholders submit their votes via proxy rather than attend the companies' annual meetings in person. This year's season represents a critical juncture in public company...

Groupon cancels all gun-related deals after Sandy Hook shooting

2013-01-21 15:43:00

Groupon Inc. is canceling all its firearm offers a month after the shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School last month in Connecticut. “All scheduled and current gun-related deals featured on Groupon North America, including shooting...

LivingSocial cuts 400 workers as rival Groupon weighs CEO's fate

2012-11-29 11:28:00

Daily deals site and Groupon competitor LivingSocial cut 9% of its workforce Thursday, laying off 400 employees as it evaluates its recent “hypergrowth,” a spokesman said. Though several dozen of the employees worked in LivingSocial’...

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason: 'I'd be the first person to fire myself'

2012-11-28 10:39:00

On Thursday, Groupon Inc.’s board members will reportedly debate the fate of Andrew Mason, the chief executive of the struggling daily deals site. But then again, “it would be weird” if they didn’t, he said. “It’s...

Groupon slide continues, stock falls below $3 in 29% plunge

2012-11-09 10:48:00

Whatever is happening with Groupon Inc., investors don’t like it, sending the daily deals company’s stock to� another record low. Shares fell below $3 for the first time Friday, hitting $2.75 a share from $3.92 a share Thursday after the...

Election Day deals from JetBlue, Zipcar, Urban Outfitters, more

2012-11-05 11:59:00

Need an incentive to vote besides a deep sense of civic duty? Many companies are hoping to lure patrons to the polls by offering Election Day promotions. Low-cost airline JetBlue Airways Corp. is dangling the chance to win a free flight out of the...

On 1-year anniversary of IPO, Groupon shares plunge to record low

2012-11-02 12:02:00

The stock chart for Groupon is a scary thing to behold, especially for investors. In the year since the daily-deals website made its public debut, the trajectory of its stock has been down, down, down. Shares, which were priced at $20 each, opened at...

Rich get richer: Bill Gates tops Forbes list, Zuckerberg plunges

2012-09-19 13:14:00

Bill Gates has been the richest person in the country for an entire generation, cinching the top spot on Forbes’ list of the 400 wealthiest Americans for the 19th consecutive year. That’s what a net worth of $66 billion will do for a guy....

Affordable travel tips from the experts

2012-09-02 00:00:00

We long for travel, but we long even more deeply for affordable travel. To that end, we asked industry experts to weigh in on budget travel: from getting there to eating there to staying there to choosing where to go. Amy Chen, online editor, Frommers....

Shares of Angie's List and Groupon sink

2012-08-14 15:55:00

Stocks in the beleaguered social-media sector keep heading down. Shares of Angie’s List Inc. and�Groupon Inc.� plunged Tuesday as investors continued their retreat from the formerly red-hot sector. Angie’s List, the consumer-review website,...

Groupon Inc. said Tuesday it has started offering its Breadcrumb point-of-sale system to all brick-and-mortar businesses.

2013-05-14 06:33:00

The Groupon logo is displayed in the company's Chicago headquarters in a 2011 file photo.

2013-05-07 14:47:00

Eric Lefkofsky at Groupon's headquarters on Aug. 31, 2010.

2013-03-04 00:00:00