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LivingSocial Goes Real-Time For Beauty Booking

October 12, 2015
Groupon Sells Ticket Monster For $360M
News // April 21, 2015

Putting an end to months of speculations, Groupon has finally announced its plans to sell its controlling 46 percent stake in its South Korean venture Ticket Monster for $360 million to private equity firm KKR and Hong Kong’s Anchor Equity Partners. Valuing Ticket Monster (TMON)...

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LivingSocial Goes Real-Time For Beauty Booking

October 12, 2015
“Real time” is one of the biggest buzzwords in today’s payments and commerce ecosystem. Now, LivingSocial is piloting a new program for select customers to test out FastBook, its new real-time service to book beauty appointments. The local marketplace will debut the service in Austin before branching it out to other markets. Introducing: FastBook. “FastBook really […]