U.S. coupons major Groupon has rebranded its Indian deal site SoSasta into the weird sounding Crazeal. Apparently, the name SoSasta is not resonating well in South India and also supposedly not hip enough to entice the highfalutin upmarket sellers into clambering up on the discounts train. What cockamamie crock! When you’re basically peddling discounts, SoSasta […]
This looks like one of those Only in America stories. But one that Mohandas Gandhi would have approved of and eagerly embraced (more on that later). We all know how crazy Americans are about their coupons. They use it at restaurants and grocery stores, to buy dog and cat food, for manicures, pedicures, movie tickets, […]
Daily deals web site and Groupon rival LivingSocial has raised a mind-boggling $400 million in a new round to take its total funding to over half-a-billion dollars. Well, $600 million is LivingSocial’s total funding if you schmucks must know the exact number. Existing investors Amazon and Lightspeed Venture Partners and newbies T. Rowe Price and […]
Shop till you drop. As even the schmucks know by now, that’s been the mantra in the consumerist Mecca a.k.a. America for decades. And if there’s one group of people who love a deal, it’s Americans. Every day, Americans use coupons for Tampons, Bread, Donuts, Beer, Razors, Diabetes Readers, Whiskey, Movie Tickets, Pizza, Haircuts, Wine, […]