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Overview of some big ticket daily deals and group buying items. Mercedes use of group buying could have implications for Autotrader.

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Could take this model and apply it to real-world purchases as well. Like a Facebook-fueled Blippy with deals! You benefit from buying the things your friends buy, link-tracking back to original influencer/purchaser, etc.

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"Best Buy is also expanding its services up in the sky. Today it has launched a new music streaming offering-appropriately enough called Best Buy Music Cloud. On the surface, it sounds strikingly similar to what Apple will be offering users in its iCloud music service, but with a few differences:"

Groupon and LivingSocial are buying similar companies in other countries in an attempt to go international

"The survey polled 80 ad shops earlier this month with 47% of respondents saying their clients are waiting until after the elections to advertise in order to avoid competing with political buys. Strata surmised that the finding suggests that advertisers are concerned about future costs. That finding is also a significant shift from a similar survey done in the second quarter, when a majority of agencies polled said they were willing to compete with political advertisers, and only 18% said they would wait to advertise until after the elections."

Shopster that uses the geo-location services in the iPhone (or iPad or iPod touch) to not only keep track of where you frequently buy your groceries, but what you buy at which store. Then it can notify you when you're near those locations and what you might possibly need to run in and grab.

Buy a CD, get the digital version free. Is this potentially the start of a trend? Can I get an eBook if I buy the hard copy?

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Trading in Justin Bieber and Ozzy Osbourne for tech stars Kevin Systrom who co-founded Instagram and Philippe Kahn who created one of the first camera phones, Best Buy is eschewing celebrity for Silicon Valley.

But it's AOL's own properties the company aims to build up as a go-to premium buy for brand advertisers. Display revenue on AOL properties grew by 2 percent. The company is betting on premium ad formats such as its rich-media laden Project Devil units to entice brands to spend more. AOL reported that more than half of the advertisers who bought the ads in Q1 re-upped this past quarter. Armstrong admitted that last year the company's focus was not data-driven, and stressed the firm's renewed mission to ensure that data - meaning results-related numbers proving the value of buying AOL's ad products - is at the heart of its sales approach. People cannot leave the building without data, said Armstrong. Mobile and video ad revenue are key to future growth for AOL, said Armstrong, who said that last summer 75 percent of insertion orders included both platforms. Today, it's close to 100 percent, he said. The company reported that videos, video views, and video revenue rose at double-digit rates, though it did not break out revenues for video advertising.

Cisco is buying Wi-Fi analytics company ThinkSmart Technologies for an unspecified amount. By analyzing Wi-Fi data, Cicso says retailers should get a better scoop on how quickly consumers move in stores, when they're the most crowded, and where consumers go when they shop. (Of course, this assumes that most shoppers are carrying smartphones with them, which is likely the case.)

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"Why it's hard to decide which tablet to buy, and whether or not to buy one at all."

AT&T said on Sunday it would buy T-Mobile USA from Deutsche Telekom for $39 billion, creating the largest wireless company in the United States from what were the nation's second and fourth providers.

LightSquared, a company that's building a new nationwide wireless broadband network, says Best Buy will resell access to that network, . The electronics chain will sell the service under its own Best Buy Connect brand.

Best Buy is on a mission to change its image and reclaim sales lost to rivals including Wal-Mart and Amazon. Under CEO Brian Dunn, the consumer-electronics chain is testing less-cluttered layouts similar to those of Apple stores, training employees to demonstrate to customers how gadgets work together and moving away from promotions to everyday low pricing. 

Google Inc. is buying cell phone maker Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc. for $12.5 billion in cash. It's by far Google's biggest acquisition and a sign the online search leader is serious about expanding beyond its core Internet business and setting the agenda in the fast-growing mobile market.