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Analysis

Groupon buys Ideeli for US $43M in cash and moves into fashion

Groupon has acquired ideeli, a flash fashion retailer, for US $43 million in cash in order to widen the net of consumers using its platform for more than daily deals. Ideeli’s acquisition underlines Groupon’s current yearning to expand into new product categories,after accomplishing its US$260 million acquisition of LivingSocial’s Ticket Monster business in Korea.

Online ticketing service Eventbrite acquires Lanyrd and Eventioz

Eventbrite announced today its acquisition of London-based data company Lanyrd and Argentinian-based ticketing company Eventioz, two acquisitions that are aligned with its strategic focus and will also add significant assets and technical power to their platform.

Analysis: The iPhone 5 and Apple’s dominance

Much has been said and written in recent years about smartphones that could become “iPhone killers”— from competitors such as Samsung and its Galaxy models, who adopted Google's Android platform, to the launch of Windows Phone 7 and the expectations it generated at the time (along with its Nokia alliances).

Analysis: Implications of changes to the Google algorithm

A few days ago we reported that Google is updating its search algorithm by now including the number of valid copyright takedown notices received by websites. What implications does this change have on Google search results? Which results are going to be last and which simply will not show up?