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A New Crop Of Tech Billionaires Just Vowed To Give Most Of Their Money Away
Milner is known for investing in science. His foundation created something called The Fundamental P…
New Groupon CEO: Morale Is 'Dramatically Better' Than It Was Under Andrew Mason
As much as Andrew certainly has a fantastic sense of humor, the culture of Groupon was really built…
Groupon CEO Eric Lefkofsky Revealed As The Buyer Of A $19.5 Million Chicago Mansion
And according to the Tribune, Lefkofsky plans to expand the mansion further. With the help of Studi…
Madeline Stone
Groupon's Chairman Was On A Two-Month Vacation When Andrew Mason Was Fired
Lefkofsky had previously resigned from the board of InnerWorkings, a print-services business he cof…
Owen Thomas
Eric Lefkofsky, Groupon's New Interim Co-CEO, Has Some Cozy Deals With His Own Vendors
He doesn't need to. In 2011, his investment group, Green Media, made about $314 million when it cas…
Jim Edwards
Groupon Beats Second Quarter Revenue Estimates And Makes Founder Eric Lefkofsky Permanent CEO
Groupon also announced that its board of directors authorized a share repurchase program. As part o…
Megan Rose Dickey
A startup from the founder of Groupon that wants to personalize cancer treatment just raised $110 million at a $2 billion valuation
Chicago-based Tempus got its start in 2015, and in the last three years has rocketed into unicorn t…
Lydia Ramsey
How a Groupon co-founder's experience with lack of cancer data data led him to start a company that's now worth $2 billion in just three years
There's big money getting poured into collecting cancer data - both clinical and genetic. For examp…
Lydia Ramsey
Groupon board votes to replace cofounder in CEO role
Today's earnings show that that growth has stalled. Revenue was $713.6 million in the third quarter…
Biz Carson
Groupon shares plummet 30% after replacing CEO
Groupon's new CEO Rich Williams has been at Groupon since 2011, joining the company after leaving A…
Steven Tweedie
Groupon had already lost 80% of its value before yesterday's CEO change
What went wrong? The company counted a lot of skeptics stemming all the way back to some unusual ac…
Matt Rosoff
Investors bet $7.3 billion on AI startups tackling healthcare, more than on any other industry
"For creating innovation, especially with a new technology in a domain that's not familiar with it,…
Emma Court
A biotech backed by Bill Gates is developing therapies that could treat everything from skin diseases to cancer
Exicure isn't the only company working to develop RNA-based treatments. The field has had some chal…
Lydia Ramsey
LIVE: Groupon's Q3 Earnings
Groupon's stock has been on a wild ride this year, up from around $5 to around $10 now. That level …
Jim Edwards
The next recession, Mark Zuckerberg's security chief, and UnitedHealth Group's $100 billion goal
"Cable has a giant reach in tens of millions of homes, which was quite tantalizing to us, but we al…
Matt Turner
CHART OF THE DAY: Groupon's Stock Since Andrew Mason Was Fired
Since Mason was fired, Groupon cofounder Eric Lefkofsky was made interim CEO, and then permanent CE…
ANDREW MASON OUT AS GROUPON CEO - STOCK SPIKES AFTER HOURS
Sources do credit Mason for coming up with some of Groupon's defining characteristics: that it's on…
Joe Weisenthal,Nicholas Carls…
CHART OF THE DAY: These CEOs Are The Most Beloved Bosses In Tech
Of all the big-name CEOs in tech, which are most adored by their employees? According to Glassdoor …
Dave Smith
Groupon is laying off 1,100 employees and shutting down its operations in 7 countries
Groupon launched in 2008, offering its customers discounts at restaurants, spas, and retail stores.…
Maya Kosoff
Why Was Groupon's Andrew Mason Tweeting Cryptically About Oranges Before He Was Fired?
Here's a thought: Mason was replaced by chairman Eric Lefkofsky and director Ted Leonsis. So those …