Saturday, February 18, 2012

Groupon On A Shopping Spree: Buys Mobile Payment Specialist Kima Labs

groupon logoAnother acquisition for Groupon, and a sign of how the e-commerce company is getting more focused on mobile as a route to future growth: it has picked up Kima Labs, which makes mobile barcode reading app Barcode Hero and mobile payment app TapBuy. The terms of the deal were not disclosed; we're trying to find out. The news comes just hours after news broke that Groupon had bought another mobile startup, Hyperpublic, which makes geolocation technology.

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