{"id":566427,"date":"2010-05-17T00:37:23","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T04:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"tag:contentnext.com,2010-05-17:article\/419-groupon-gets-a-ticket-to-europe-by-acquiring-german-clone-citydeal"},"modified":"2010-05-17T00:37:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T04:37:23","slug":"groupon-gets-a-ticket-to-europe-by-acquiring-german-clone-citydeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/566427","title":{"rendered":"Groupon Gets A Ticket To Europe By Acquiring German Clone CityDeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"border: 1px solid silver; padding: 4px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 0; float: left;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/moconews.net\/article\/419-groupon-gets-a-ticket-to-europe-by-acquiring-german-clone-citydeal\/\" title=\"Groupon\" class=\"image_link image\" id=\"115180_6070\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/images\/editorial\/f_small\/groupon-s.jpg\" alt=\"Groupon\" width=\"170\" height=\"66\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Social shopping site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupon.com\" title=\"Groupon\">Groupon<\/a> has acquired European imitator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citydeal.de\/\" title=\"CityDeal\">CityDeal<\/a>, its second acquisition this month. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Just as Groupon bought <a href=\"http:\/\/mob.ly\/\" title=\"Mob.ly\">Mob.ly<\/a> as a <a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-groupon-buys-mobile-development-firm-mob.ly\/\" title=\"quick way to extend its mobile services\">quick way to extend its mobile services<\/a>, the purchase of Berlin-based CityDeal is intended to give it a large European presence practically overnight (or 19 months, to be exact), the company said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/groublogpon.com\/cities\/groupon-europe\/\" title=\"blog post\">blog post<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>In addition to local sites in the U.S. and Canada, there will now be a Groupon geographically tailored to users in Germany, the UK, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Finland, Denmark, Turkey, Sweden. It is also working on adding sites for Norway and Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>By way of explaining the reasoning behind the purchase of CityDeal Andrew Mason, Groupon&#8217;s founder and CEO explains on the company&#8217;s official blog, it was more than enough time and effort to make local sites from Miami to Philadelphia distinctive enough. To do the same for a more than a dozen country-specific sites required an established presence.<\/p>\n<p>CityDeal has <a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-social-shopping-craze-attracting-more-investment-more-candidates\/\" title=\"raised\">raised<\/a> about \u20ac4 million ($5.6 million) after launching late last year. It is part of an increasingly crowded list of social shopping sites on both sides of the Atlantic, including leading sites like Gilt Groupe, which <a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-private-sales-startup-gilt-groupe-raises-another-35-million\/\" title=\"just raised\">just raised<\/a> another $35 million as it tries to expand its business and stay ahead of the pack. <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/Groupon-Expands-to-Europe-Via-bw-2380220118.html?x=0&amp;.v=1\" title=\"Release\">Release<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"related\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-private-sales-startup-gilt-groupe-raises-another-35-million\/\" title=\"Private Sales Startup Gilt Groupe Raises Another $35 Million\">Private Sales Startup Gilt Groupe Raises Another $35 Million<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-groupon-buys-mobile-development-firm-mob.ly\/\" title=\"Groupon Buys Mobile Development Firm Mob.ly\">Groupon Buys Mobile Development Firm Mob.ly<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paidcontent.org\/article\/419-social-shopping-craze-attracting-more-investment-more-candidates\/\" title=\"Social Shopping Craze Attracting More Investment, More Candidates In Europe\">Social Shopping Craze Attracting More Investment, More Candidates In Europe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/vVyahKtitTRFuirEIYCxjm27QX0\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/vVyahKtitTRFuirEIYCxjm27QX0\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/vVyahKtitTRFuirEIYCxjm27QX0\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/vVyahKtitTRFuirEIYCxjm27QX0\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=jMDoluXjABk:JMLGl4TJVMw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=jMDoluXjABk:JMLGl4TJVMw:dnMXMwOfBR0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=dnMXMwOfBR0\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=jMDoluXjABk:JMLGl4TJVMw:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=jMDoluXjABk:JMLGl4TJVMw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=jMDoluXjABk:JMLGl4TJVMw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=jMDoluXjABk:JMLGl4TJVMw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.moconews.net\/~ff\/moconews?a=jMDoluXjABk:JMLGl4TJVMw:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/moconews?i=jMDoluXjABk:JMLGl4TJVMw:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/moconews\/~4\/jMDoluXjABk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social shopping site Groupon has acquired European imitator CityDeal, its second acquisition this month. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Just as Groupon bought Mob.ly as a quick way to extend its mobile services, the purchase of Berlin-based CityDeal is intended to give it a large European presence practically overnight (or 19 months, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}