Groupon Acquires Blink and Gets Into Last-Minute Mobile Hotel Booking Game


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For Groupon, which has built its business on limited time-based inventory, the acquisition makes sense to add to its travel business. For the mobile booking sector, it is just the beginning, with a lot more to come.

And suddenly, Groupon is back in travel: The daily deals site has acquired Madrid-based last-minute hotel booking app Blink to add to its Groupon Getaways travel business. Blink says it works with more than 2,000 hotel partners in eight European countries. Terms of the deal