Groupon shares collapsed against the background of weak quarterly report

Securities operator coupon sites Groupon at auction in New York on Monday suffered a significant price losses after the company announced quarterly results well below expectations amid a substantial drawdown sales in the European market, where consumer activity on the background of the debt crisis reduced.

According to Groupon, in the second quarter, its sales rose 45% to 568.3 million dollars, against 575.3 million dollars expected by analysts. The operating profit of 8 cents per share, however, this figure is also included 4 cents per diluted share, from the ownership of Groupon business in China. Analysts expected a profit of Groupon at 3 cents per share.

Twitter and Facebook are introducing new tools for targeted advertising

Social media platforms Twitter and Facebook introduce new tools for targeted advertising.

Ads in Twitter will focus on user preferences in reading blogs and message exchange. Facebook will allow advertisers to use the personal data of customers. Experts fear again violations of user rights to privacy.

Microblogging service Twitter and social network Facebook introduced new tools for advertisers to make their ads more effectively reach the end user. Targeted advertising, which will see the visitor Twitter, will be based on the fact of what blogs he follows and what position he shares in their news feed, and the service will not analyze text messages, writes The Wall Street Journal.

10 of the most important phrases for business managers

In the business world, it is important is the ability of people to find a common language with each other, especially among the higher echelons of management chain.

Important not just to be able to explain what was going on in the department, company, sector or the whole economy, but do it nicely. Such rhetoric is often a guarantee that your words are not just understand and appreciate. Sometimes I understand the whole business cases on the topic of how to talk to the business world.