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Perhaps in an effort to boost its fight Groupon competitor offers Google, Google has been broken by another site daily specials. According to The Next Web, Google has acquired German company DailyDeal."As more and more people go online to find the latest, most important operations, we are exploring new ways to help consumers get the best local deals out there," said a Google spokesman PCMag. "The team has a track DailyDeal amazing in this space, and look forward to working with them."Founded in 2009 by brothers Fabian and Heilemann Ferry, DailyDeal has expanded beyond Germany in Switzerland and Austria, which is larger than Groupon, the next band, he said. DailyDeal, which confirmed the acquisition on its site, also plans to increase its operations and said it has set its sights on establishing a business in the Scandinavian countries, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg.DailyDeal said in the first three months of 2011, 252,000 stamps were sold, and is expected to 40 million euros in 2011.The Next Web predicted that this purchase means that Google is likely planning to launch Google offers in Europe. From now offers only available in nine U.S. cities, and although the service page shows that it is "soon" over 30 additional sites, Google has not talked about their plans to deploy the service to other countries.While Google is boosting its service daily deals, Facebook recently killed their products and offerings Yelp announced that cuts in these types of deals. So has Google missed the boat with this industry?Yipit aggregator Deal reported last week that Google offers has struggled with falling revenues by 23 percent between July and August, despite the fact that Google increased the number of deals being offered in this period by almost a quarter.In fact, another Yipit analysis found that 33 percent of sites everyday deals have been closed or sold in the last year. Is reduced to 170 from 530 of these sites.However, if this acquisition is an indication, Google is determined to do their business by selling the work platform.
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