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Type of site | Electronic commerce |
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| Available in | English and others (for 27 countries) |
| Headquarters | Chicago, U.S. |
| Owner | Groupon |
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| Revenue | $536,000,000 (2012)[2] $57,000,000 (2015)[3] |
| URL | LivingSocial.com |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Launched | June 29, 2007[4] (as Hungry Machine) |
| Current status | Active |
LivingSocial is an online marketplace that allows its registered users to buy and share things to do in their city.[5] Formerly headquartered in Washington, D.C., LivingSocial had roughly 70 million members around the world in 2013.[2] The company shrank from a peak of 4,500 employees in 2011 to about 200 in 2016.[6][7] LivingSocial was purchased by Groupon in 2016.
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- ^ "LivingSocial cuts its Q4 loss but revenue down, expenses up". Washington Business Journal. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
- ^ "HungryMachiene.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved 2016-07-10.
- ^ "Company Overview of LivingSocial, Inc". www.businessweek.com. Bloomberg. Archived from the original on July 15, 2009. Retrieved 20 June 2014.
- ^ Peterson, Andrea. "LivingSocial is laying off more than half of its workers". Washington Post. Retrieved 1 Sep 2016.
- ^ Issac, Mike and Benner, Katie. New York Times, Nov. 20, 2015. "LivingSocial Offers a Cautionary Tale to Today’s Unicorns". Accessed Sept. 1, 2016.