{"id":30774,"date":"2011-08-02T23:11:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T21:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=30774"},"modified":"2011-08-02T23:12:21","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T21:12:21","slug":"google-buys-dealmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/30774-google-buys-dealmap.html","title":{"rendered":"Google buys Dealmap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google&#8217;s latest deal is aimed at helping people find the best daily deals on the Web.<\/p>\n<p>The Internet search leader bought Dealmap, a 15-month-old startup that compiles discount offers from local merchants scattered in markets across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The financial terms of the acquisition announced Tuesday weren&#8217;t disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Google Inc. bought Dealmap just a few weeks after starting its own daily deal service to compete with Groupon and LivingSocial, the early leaders in one of the Internet&#8217;s fastest growing advertising niches. Google&#8217;s version, called Offers, currently distributes daily deals in New York, the San Francisco Bay area and Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Dealmap, based in Menlo Park, California, has built a database that lists deals from more than 450 different sources. It says it has more than 2 million users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Inc. bought Dealmap just a few weeks after starting its own daily deal service to compete with Groupon and LivingSocial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":26793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[36,3294,167,2228,3296],"class_list":["post-30774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-dealmap","tag-google","tag-groupon","tag-livingsocial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30776,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30774\/revisions\/30776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}