At every corner of the deal

Does anyone know where to find fresh coupons? Yes, anywhere.

The New York Times is set to launch Times Limited by the end of this month, and Microsoft has already established Bing Deals .
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Visitors to m.bing.com can find a tab and perform a localized search using a mobile phone. Surely it is planned to make this part of the start page of Bing.com, because now to stumble upon the Bing Deals on the web you need to look for a very specific place, say, in New York or Miami.

Let me remind you that pioneer Groupon today has $ 2 billion in profits, a wrapped offer of $ 6 billion from Google (now with its Google Offers ) and interesting people on the board of directors - one of them is slightly lower.

When such success, development and, most importantly, profits flow into someone's account - try not to look closely. TechCrunch , in my opinion, goes too far by comparing Groupon with Google, but considering that both companies make a profit from advertising, the comparison looks reasonable.

Let's go back to Bing, which launched its deals using The Dealmap , a startup that keeps track of local deals and offers, aggregating them for a user by location. Now, according to official information, there are more than 300 different sources of proposals in its database.

Twitter also tried to implement a similar model using @Earlybird , but after a couple of months, twittering stopped.

On the other hand, all this hype around the genre's legislator - Groupon, contributes to a fantastic influx of money, and brains, into the company. To date, about $ 1.13 billion has been invested in it. The last major round was $ 950 million, and after it another small investment of $ 16.2 million.

Rumor has it that this is due to the entry of Howard Schulz, the founder of Starbucks, on the board of directors of Groupon. A document from the SEC on the sale of securities was issued the same day when it was announced about the seat for Schultz.

These entertaining races will be released on a new round, when the first day of the sale of Groupon shares will take place. Today, it really could be the second Google, it all depends on the ingenuity of the founders and directors who lead a start-up on sale with a NASDAQ sign.

All Things Digital via TechCrunch via RRW via NYT