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After Groupon and LivingSocial, there are another 400 to 500 daily deal sites in the U.S., plus 200 more internationally-and very few people think the world needs that many. Expect plenty of consolidation in the next year or two. By this time next year, you may be finding the best daily deals via search and social networks rather than email blasts-and you could be redeeming the deals with a swipe of your credit card rather than a computer print out.

AMEX and Facebook offer deals.  similar to the foursquare/amex deals

aisle50 is a daily deal/coupon/discount service that lets people get items at 50% off.   they send an email, you purchase online, deal is added to your loyalty card, go to the store and the item is removed from the bill.

F-commerce here we come. Facebook is rebranding Deals through Places as Check-In Deals and is going to release a new Deals product focused on social discovery and sharing.

From NM Incite: Social media discussion about Black Friday peaked in 2012, accounting for 2.6% of online buzz, up 15% from 2011. Cyber Monday buzz almost doubled relative to 2012, accounting for 1.4% of online buzz. The overwhelming majority of social media conversation about Black Friday and Cyber Monday was driven by consumers sharing deals and talking about deals. 10% of Black Friday conversation, specifically, was negative, driven largely by consumer complaints about crowds, violence and lackluster sales. The top shared link within Black Friday buzz was the Amazon Black Friday Deals page.

 Citysearch will tap its CityGrid Media advertising network, which includes thousands of advertisers, to aggregate deals. It also signed with GroupOn and The DealMap for the same purpose. The company plans to expand its network in the future. Users can personalize the list, filter the deals into categories, and save them in a specific folder. "You can print the deal through Apple's Airprint technology on the iPhone introduced with version 4.2 iOS," Bedoya says. Aside from CityGrid, users will see aggregated daily deals from GroupOn; the site gets a percentage of the revenue share. Advertisers in the CityGrid network pay based on performance.

Mobile deals acquisition. Apparently 9 deals purchased per avg user, versus 4 for Groupon

foursquare rolling out daily deals from living social, gilt city, at&t interactive, buywithme and zozi.  targeting deals based on check-in histories.

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But perhaps more importantly, the company this week is delivering what it's best known for - deals. Ideeli has partnered with Carmen MarValvo, BCBG Max Azria, Nicole Miller, Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Betsey Johnson, and other well-known fashion shops to pitch exclusive Fashion Week-focused offers from those designers. Manela added, "The fact that now…we can offer customers not only a strong lineup of [Fashion Week] featured designer sale events, but also exclusive on-site interviews and insight from designers themselves can be directly attributed to the strong relationships [we have] built across the industry."

ilt City will start testing the integration through Facebook Deals in five cities nationwide. In the coming weeks, Gilt City will allow users to purchase the site's coveted experiences on Facebook and share them with their friends.

quickerfeet is a mobile app that delivers latest deals from local retailers in real-time.

"Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that the NBCUniversal-owned cable network has closed a deal with Esquire parent Hearst Corporation to shift the former gaming network to a destination more in line with the modern male. The effort is designed to capture a growing, upscale demographic that isn't being reached through other male networks, including adrenaline-heavy Spike and History. "

Foursquare has teamed up with Visa and Mastercard to expand its check-in deals service that lets users earn better specials at more locations.

Paypal is starting a daily deal service 

"Cudo, the Microsoft-backed Australian daily deal site that offered a $99 Chinese e-reader bundled with a CD of pirated e-books (Stephen King, J.K. Rowling), is now blaming the e-reader merchant for the mistake and says it will be sending buyers a different e-reader."

AT&T's connected car deal with Volvo will include M2M tech (and data collection) as well as in-car wi-fi in addition to the standard options.

"The deal, easily the largest yet between an agency holding company and a tech company, would pool global spending from Publicis media networks Starcom MediaVest Group and Zenith Optimedia as well as large digital shops like Digitas, Razorfish and Rosetta."

"McDonalds beacon case study (retail) 26 McDonald's franchises in Columbus, Georgia tested out iBeacon technology with its customers. Over the four week trial, the franchises were pushing special deals for McChicken Sandwiches and 10 piece Chicken McNuggets. The iBeacon powered promotions pushed McChicken Sandwich sales up 8 percent and Chicken McNugget sales up 7.5 percent. Based on the initial results of the pilot it looks as though McDonald's will continue to explore the technology for an additional 263 retail stores in the southeast. "Everyone is looking at their phones, millennials especially, and that's where we've decided to engage," Jack Pezold, a McDonald's franchisee of 40 years, said in a statement. Spotless beacon case study (enterprise) Spotless is an Australian owned and managed provider of integrated facilities management services. In 2014, Spotless partnered with Lighthouse to build and deploy a custom workforce management solution with the goal of reducing litigation claims in the commercial cleaning service line. The solution allowed Spotless to understand when cleaning KPI's are missed in real-time and produce employee location reports that can be used as legal defense against slip and fall litigation claims in shopping malls. Spotless has also been able to optimise their workforce and reduce operating costs by analyzing Lighthouse powered heat mapping of employee movements. The solution has been so successful that Spotless are extending the capability across other service lines including facilities management, security and maintenance. Read the full case study here. Pause Fest beacon case study (events) Pause Fest is Australia's premier digital event, aimed at supporting and showcasing the best in creative and tech from Australia and all over the world. In 2015, Pause Fest partnered with Lighthouse to deploy a network of beacons that delivered proximity based content and experiences to attendees, while enabling real-time event analyt