Is the online daily deals bubble ending? San Francisco-based Yelp will cut staff and “scale back” its year-old Yelp Deals service, Bloomberg says. About 15 of 30 sales staff will be redeployed to other parts of the Yelp organization. It was just a few days ago that Facebook decided to shutter its daily deals service. And critics have been less than ecstatic lately about category leader Groupon’s prospects.
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Is the online daily deals bubble ending? San Francisco-based Yelp will cut staff and “scale back” its year-old Yelp Deals service, Bloomberg says. About 15 of 30 sales staff will be redeployed to other parts of the Yelp organization. It was just a few days ago that Facebook decided to shutter its daily deals service. And critics have been less than ecstatic lately about category leader Groupon’s prospects.
Yelp peels back its daily deals service
Monday, August 29, 2011
Is the online daily deals bubble ending? San Francisco-based Yelp will cut staff and “scale back” its year-old Yelp Deals service, Bloomberg says. About 15 of 30 sales staff will be redeployed to other parts of the Yelp organization. It was just a few days ago that Facebook decided to shutter its daily deals service. And critics have been less than ecstatic lately about category leader Groupon’s prospects.
