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Sanford Wallace, known as the Spam King, has turned himself in to U.S. authorities after he was indicted for masterminding a scheme that sent more than 27 million unsolicited junk messages through Facebook's servers.

Groupon Inc said on Friday that it is cutting some underperforming staff at its Chinese joint venture Gaopeng.

As Facebook's recently launched competitor Google+ is raging ahead with 25 million unique visitors, Randi Zuckerberg, Director of Marketing Facebook, has decided to leave.

LivingSocial agreed to buy South Korean online daily deal provider TicketMonster in a stock-swap to expand further into the Asian market, the companies said on Tuesday, without disclosing the value of the deal.

Google beefs up its daily deal services.

Google Inc has bought The Dealmap, expanding further into a potentially lucrative daily deals market now dominated by the likes of Groupon and LivingSocial.

Metro , the world's No. 4 retailer, missed expectations for second quarter results as high food prices and the European debt crisis hit consumer sentiment and said its 2011 earnings target depended on economic improvements.

Gap is launching a new marketing campaign targeting smartphone shoppers. The company is releasing a video tip that tells shoppers they can clean their jeans by putting them in the freezer overnight.

Google Inc said the Department of Justice has asked for more information regarding its acquisition of online advertising company AdMeld.

Google Inc said the Department of Justice has asked for more information regarding its acquisition of online advertising company AdMeld.

Gannett, America's largest newspaper chain, is expanding DailyChicken, its daily deals service, in direct competition Groupon and LivingSocial.

Gannett Co is expanding its DealChicken daily deals service, which will be in more than 50 cities by the end of year, as the top U.S. newspaper chain tries to capitalize on the online coupon craze.

According to a recent report by Bloomberg, it was revealed that Apple may be interested in bidding for Hulu, the online streaming service. But the chances of that occurring are probably highly unlikely. Here are 3 main reasons why Apple won't be cracking open its enormous piggy bank on Hulu.

The frenzy with the launch of Google has slowed down in the past couple of days compared to 2 million users joining every day in the last one week, suggests an analysis by Paul Allen, co-founder of Ancestry.com.

Groupon Inc's rapid growth has attracted rivals and regulators, a twin threat to the largest online daily deal company as it gets ready for an initial public offering.

Borders is closing, lending some to question what the impact will be on Barnes & Noble, America's largest national bookstore chain.

Almost two-thirds of U.S. shoppers plan to spend the same or less this back-to-school season as last year, a survey showed, in an early sign that retailers may not obtain a huge boost from the second-biggest selling season of the year.

Apple has a reputation of revitalizing damaged relationships with customers with promises of lower price tag, better applications and good customer service.

Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen said Groupon Inc's daily deal coupons may violate state law.

Since early March, the stock’s value has jumped about 50 percent to just under $300 per share, an all-time high.

Netflix has been bashed by many customers for raising its pricing 60 percent, but the $9.99 unlimited streaming video and DVD by mail offer was just a really good sale. The deal was good, while it lasted.