LivingSocial
Company purchased by Groupon / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
LivingSocial is an online marketplace that allows its registered users to buy and share things to do in their city.[5] Formerly headquartered in Washington, D.C., LivingSocial had roughly 70 million members around the world in 2013.[2] The company shrank from a peak of 4,500 employees in 2011 to about 200 in 2016.[6][7] LivingSocial was purchased by Groupon in 2016.
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Type of site | Electronic commerce |
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Available in | English and others (for 27 countries) |
Headquarters | Chicago, U.S. |
Owner | Groupon |
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Revenue | $536,000,000 (2012)[2] $57,000,000 (2015)[3] |
URL | LivingSocial.com |
Commercial | Yes |
Launched | June 29, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-06-29)[4] (as Hungry Machine) |
Current status | Active |
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