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Google Offers Expands to Five New Cities

Posted By Matt DeLuca On September 12, 2011 @ 9:23 am In Apps,E-Commerce,Internet and Online Business,Location-based services | No Comments

Google Offers, a daily deals program engineered by the search engine giant to compete with Groupon, launched [1] in Portland, Oregon last April before expanding to New York City and the San Francisco area. After a successful beta launch in all the requisite tech markets, Google Offers announced that it will launch in five new cities: Austin, Boston, Denver, Seattle, and Washington, D.C.

Early deals [2] through the service for deals in these cities included a coupon for food and drink at a Mexican restaurant in Austin, tickets to the Seattle Aquarium, and a falafel offer in the nation’s capital.

Google launched Google Offers after a 2010 offer of the company’s own to buy Groupon for a rumored $6 billion failed.

Read more at VentureBeat [3].

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[1] launched: http://www.droid-life.com/2011/09/07/google-offers-expands-to-seattle-denver-austin-boston-and-dc-starting-today/

[2] Early deals: http://googlecommerce.blogspot.com/2011/09/google-offers-beta-in-five-more-cities.html

[3] VentureBeat: http://venturebeat.com/2011/09/07/google-offers-austin-boston-dc-denver-seattle/

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