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Can Singapore engineer creativity?
Singapore's government gets what it wants — from social policy to tourism. But its bid to enhance the nation's creative atmosphere may be a challenge more difficult any other.
By Katherine Ryder, contributor
FORTUNE -- Singapore's government has a way of getting what it wants. Fertility rates too low? The Social Development Unit organizes boat-trips to spin romance among the singles crowd. Not enough tourism? The Tourism Board spearheads the development of MORE
Sep 13, 2011 12:03 PM ET -
Today in Tech: Carol Bartz fired from Yahoo, says so from iPad
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"I am very sad to tell you that I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's Chairman of the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with all of you and I wish you only the best going forward. Carol / Sent from my iPad" -- former MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 7, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Carol Bartz, Groupon, Hulu, iPad, Jen-Hsun Huang, Michael Arrington, Nvidia, Reddit, Tim Morse, Yahoo -
Today in Tech: Is Groupon running out of money?
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* Is Groupon running out of money? Henry Blodget over at Business Insider does the math and concludes -- among other things -- that as of June 30, the leading daily deal site owed $392 million to merchants for sold Groupons, significantly more than the $225 million of MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Aug 18, 2011 3:30 AM ET -
Groupon responds to LivingSocial swipe
FORTUNE -- At Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference, LivingSocial CEO Tim O'Shaughnessy had some choice words for Groupon in which he accused the daily deals competitor of copying several of his company's recent efforts, including LivingSocial Instant, a service offering near-real-time deals that may only last one or two hours.
We ran an edited version of his comments earlier this week.
"So we launched LivingSocial Instant, and Groupon launched their clone of that MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 29, 2011 3:12 PM ET -
LivingSocial CEO: Groupon is a copycat
Both daily deal sites are thriving, but as Tim O'Shaughnessy sees it, LivingSocial outpaces Groupon where it matters most: innovation.
FORTUNE – Few areas in tech are more buzz-worthy than the daily deals space right now. Groupon, often dubbed the world's "fastest-growing company," recently filed for an IPO, while LivingSocial, which reportedly picked a team of underwriters for its own public offering, isn't far behind.
But as LivingSocial CEO Tim O'Shaugnessy sees MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 27, 2011 2:57 PM ETPosted in: Facebook, GOOG, Google, Groupon, Initial public offering, IPO, LivingSocial, Tim O'Shaughnessy -
482 Groupon clones, one new business model
By following the Law of the Aggregator, Yipit has emerged as the go-to source for analysis in the overheated market for daily deal sites.
FORTUNE -- On the Web, a genre isn't truly important until somebody creates a site that obsessively tracks its every update. Political news? Legitimized by Slate's Today's Papers (may it rest in peace), the Drudge Report and Talking Points Memo. LOLCats? Nothing without ICanHazCheezburger. Social networks? Let us MORE
Chadwick Matlin - Jul 27, 2011 12:55 PM ET -
Don't call it the next tech bubble - yet
Signs of exuberance are everywhere: Tesla roadsters, soaring real estate, overpriced vinegar - and eye-popping valuations for pre-IPO companies like Facebook and Zynga. So why are so many Silicon Valley denizens reluctant to use the B-word?
By David A. Kaplan, contributor
FORTUNE -- Michael Dreyfus, 49, is a leading real estate broker in the heart of Silicon Valley. During the winter he sensed the housing market was coming back, though he hadn't MORE
Jul 11, 2011 5:00 AM ETPosted in: bubble, Facebook, Groupon, IPOs, LinkedIn, LivingSocial, Lou Montulli, Mark Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, MySpace, Netscape, Pandora Media, Sequoia Capital, Silicon Valley, Skype -
Today in Tech: Facebook-Skype announcement today?
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* The Wall Street Journal reports that Twitter is looking to raise a new round of private funding that would result an influx of hundreds of millions at a new valuation of $7 billion. The news comes just seven months after the social network raised $200 million at MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jul 6, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: Andrew Mason, Facebook, Google, Groupon, TechCrunch, Vanity Fair (magazine), Verizon Wireless, Wall Street Journal -
Study offers grim news on deal sites like Groupon
People may love online deals. But a Rice University study finds that bargain-hunters rarely turn into regulars.
FORTUNE -- The growing backlash against daily-deals services got some fresh support this week from an academic study finding that fewer than half of the companies that use such services once are unlikely to do so a second time.
The study, by Utpal Dholakia, professor of management at Rice University, also found that nearly 80% MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Jun 16, 2011 4:50 PM ET -
The checkered past of Groupon's chairman
Groupon's largest shareholder and chairman, Eric Lefkofsky, has a back story investors might want to know.
By Kevin Kelleher, contributor
FORTUNE -- "Lets start having fun... lets get funky... let's announce everything... let's be WILDLY positive in our forecasts... lets take this thing to the extreme... if we get wacked [sic] on the ride down-who gives a shit... THE TIME TO GET RADICAL IS NOW... WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE..."
This is a MORE
Jun 10, 2011 5:00 AM ET
