Andrew Mason is the modern-day, cool-kid, blinged-out CEO that every American with a half-baked Internet marketing scheme secretly dreams of becoming. Today, his company became, on paper, worth roughly $12.7 billion.
Groupon’s shares started off the day on Nasdaq at $20, and closed out at $26.11, up 30.6% from its initial public offering.
Only three years after its launch, Groupon has risen from a no-name, Chicago-based daily deals site founded by an eccentric music major graduate student to the company that kicked off the daily deals trend, which has since been copied by Internet behemoths: Google’s Google Offers, and Amazon’s Amazon Local. There’s also LivingSocial, which continues to breathe down Groupon’s neck. But none of these three are the original, tricked-out cat with the gold necklace.
(CNN) — The “Call of Duty” franchise is a perennial blockbuster, with more than 65 million units sold so far in the United States and hordes of fans lining up each fall to buy the latest installment of the war-simulation video game.
Now, Activision Publishing will find out whether fans who are accustomed to dropping $60 on a new “CoD” game each year will also cough up an extra $50 to keep their game content fresh.
The much-hyped “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3″ is set to arrive in stores on Tuesday. As usual, players get inside the helmets of soldiers — in this case, fighting a near-futuristic global war against Russian forces who have invaded multiple countries, including the United States.
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