founder and CEO of Groupon estimates that there are over 2000 direct clones worldwide but he insists that there is only a handful there are relevant. The biggest threat to Groupon’s kingdom is LivingSocial‚ although significantly smaller than Groupon‚ which raised $40 million since launching in 2009. LivingSocial received its biggest boost when Amazon has decided to invest $175 million into the company. Despite the severe competition‚ Groupon does not seem concerned because they believe large-scale success
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Cebu. Among Ensogo Philippines partners in 2011 include Yahoo Philippines‚ which featured their deals on its website. In the same year‚ Ensogo has also partnered with local bank Banco De Oro for 4 months. By June 2011‚ Ensogo officially joined the LivingSocial family. The acquisition is in line with LivingSocial’s objective to partner with companies which had similar values and ways of doing business. Ensogo offers daily deals from 50% to 90% off. With the help of Ensogo enables businesses to promote
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through this massive increase Groupon has remained the largest and most well-known in the industry. Competitors such as LivingSocial whose clientele are considered “a little higher-end‚” while Groupon’s clientele are considered to be “bargain hunters”; this negative stigma has steered merchants towards the competition. Also‚ according to Slater (44)‚ competition such as “LivingSocial pays based on deals sold rather than those redeemed‚” this is a better offer than Groupon for the merchant. Some businesses
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focus. These can range from coffee bag design contests‚ to social media contests integrating platforms such as Instagram and Twitter. One more promotional opportunity that will be utilized is participation in “Daily Deal” sites such as Groupon and LivingSocial‚ in order to associate the Starbucks brand with affordable deals. Placement: The traditional methods of distribution will continue to operate the placement of
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the first four hits (excluding the ads). The third hit is titled “Five Best Daily Deals Sites.” This is the category in which Woot belongs. After further inspection‚ the top five daily deals sites listed by lifehacker.com are: WOOT!‚ Groupon‚ LivingSocial‚ TeeFury‚ and 1 Sale A Day. Is this pure coincidence that Woot is at the top of the list? What is Woot.com and how are they maintaining and arguably gaining in this genre of daily deals sites? These questions‚ as well as an analysis of how Woot
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1. Find two companies (from different industry) that practices pure e-commerce and compare their attributes in a tabular form. Answer : Company that practices pure e-commerce is iTunes and Google Play. iTunes Google Play Developer Apple Inc. Google Release Date 9.2.2001 4.5.2010 Operating System Windows XP SP2 or later OS X 10.6.8 or later Android iOS (Books and Music only) Store Apple store is only for apple user Play store is available for all countries except for countries under US
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The Future of Banking: The Mobile Banking Revolution Brett Lord Florida Institute of Technology Strategic Management BUS5480 Professor Uchenna Nwabueze March 24‚ 2013 Abstract Mobile banking changed the landscape of personal banking. As the Internet became more ubiquitous and smartphone and tablet use is increasing‚ the desire for consumers to conduct their banking on the go grew exponentially. Financial institutions are expanding the services offered through mobile banking to attract
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What drove Facebook’s growth – a prescriptive or emergent strategy? 1. Corporate Strategy 2 1.1 Prescriptive Strategy 2 1.2 Emergent Strategy 2 2. Abstract Evidence 3 2.1 Changing on Facebook’s target customer 3 2.2 Facebook’s Daily Deals service in US 4 2.3 Facebook competing Google 4 2.4 The products and technology development of Facebook 5 3. Analysis 5 3.1 Analysing on the expanding of Facebook’s target customer 5 3.2 Analysing on Facebook’s Daily Deals 6
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used as the basis for class discussion rather than to illustrate either effective or ineffective handling of a management situation. The case was compiled from published sources. License to use IBS Mumbai for Sem I‚ class of 2014 115.249.252.231/casestudies/mumbai/FM0001.asp 1/12 6/27/12 IBS Case Studies Ó 2009‚ IBS Case Development Center. All rights reserved. To order copies‚ call +91-08417-236667/68 or write to IBS Case Development Center‚ IFHE Campus‚ Donthanapally‚ Sankarapally Road‚ Hyderabad
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headache & vomiting appear 10-15 days after. Not treated life threatening disrupts vital organs. * Bilharzias-caused parasitic worms into blood kidney failure. * Trachoma-caused parasites contaminated water lead blindness if untreated. CASESTUDY: Jakarta‚ Indonesia Problems: * Rapidly growing population‚ not enough resources reliable and safe everyone. * Large proportion drink contaminated water‚ vulnerable to disease. Salt water contaminate and makes worse especially shanty towns
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