Winter first invested heavily in education and employee training, buying shares in companies like Apollo Group.
It provides the monthly change in stock lending patterns so now might not be the time to start buying shares in defense shipbuilder VT Group.
In a notable coup, Rosen led a group of investors in buying a 50 percent interest in Proenza Schouler last summer.
In China, group buying is called tuangou, and was an early popular use of the Internet for organizing.
Although there are hundreds of group-buying sites in existence, there are only a half a dozen that have a turn-key solution: a known presence in top markets, editorial infrastructure, a credible and local sales force and a sophisticated technology platform that can scale.
Tweeter's, based in Boston, Massachusetts, and Pro, a national buying group for independents, began selling Samsung's more expensive products in 1999.
Even before people in the West knew such a thing as group-buying, Chinese consumers had showed up at some car dealers in groups to demand deep discounts.
For instance, in the past two years, 1, 6 thousand group buying websites (most very similar to Groupon) were launched in Brazil.
In addition, transaction-only group-buying sites will have a much higher user acquisition cost compared to content publishers with built-in audiences.
Mittal overtook Arcelor as the world's largest steelmaker after buying America's International Steel Group in 2005.
And he has met with private equity firms, including the Carlyle Group, interested in buying a majority stake.
Mr Putin will have been heartened by Deutsche Bank's announcement on Monday that it is buying a 40% stake in United Financial Group, a leading Russian investment bank.
Our cooperation with group buying websites is still in an early stage, but we believe this will broaden our customer channels and thus generate more revenues for our website.
The most significant acquisition was buying out Vodafone's stake in French telecom group SFR for 7.75bn euros in June.
Some insiders even believe the group buying model will never make money in China due to heavy competition.
We are in the early stages of group-buying, yet it is now entering the hyper-growth phase, which is why speed to user acquisition is paramount.
Just four months after buying a 46% stake in Nats, the Airline Group has reportedly asked the government to void an agreement to cut charges paid by airlines.
PHH, a mortgage and vehicle leasing company, terminated a merger agreement it had reached with General Electric in March that depended on Blackstone Group buying its mortgage business.
American buyers are a much smaller group, comparatively, buying only 169 homes in 2012 to make up 2.4% of all foreign purchases.
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But equally important, while the Big Three automakers might well be accused of not correctly gauging the needs and desires of the American buying public, one group that is demonstrably much worse in that endeavor is Congress.
Publishers and media companies are in the catbird seat in the next wave of daily deals and group buying for several reasons.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina recently began buying spending data on more than 3 million people in its employer group plans.
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Groupon has leveraged the popularity of group buying, an activity which has long been popular in China since at least 2004.
Fresh buying boosted the net length for both of the platinum group metals in the week to May 3, as the number of gross longs rose.
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Meanwhile, Thomas Caldwell , a member of Thain's for-profit study group, was engaged in a very public seat-buying binge he'd begun in early 2004.
Former General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) chairman Jack Welch is involved with a group of New England businessmen who have expressed interest in buying the Globe.
Eric: We met with Letao, in addition to Baidu (BIDU) keyword, they started group buying.
So tight, in fact, that Mintz has accompanied China Film Group executives on buying trips to Los Angeles, say industry sources.
The report emerged, he says, from a focus group in which numerous participants claimed to have felt unsafe when buying goods or services through Craigslist.
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" For his part, Stephen Long, head of Citibank's Asia Pacific corporate banking group, based in Hong Kong, explains: "Buying banks isn't just about price.
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