LAS VEGAS, NV -- (Marketwired) -- 02/13/14 -- LiveDeal Inc. (NASDAQ: LIVE) ("LiveDeal" or the "Company"), a publicly traded company that operates livedeal.com, an innovative platform using geo-location to enable businesses to communicate real-time and publish instant offers to nearby consumers, today announced that it has launched livedeal.com in New York City. With over 42,000 eating and drinking locations and $33.6 billion in revenues, New York City represents a massive marketplace to leverage the livedeal.com platform.
livedeal.com successfully launched in San Diego and Los Angeles in Q4 of 2013, and San Francisco in early 2014 with over 1,000 restaurants leveraging the livedeal.com platform with real-time deals for bargain-savvy local consumers. Restaurants gain the ability to curate and control their own customized offers to customers via livedeal.com's unique, real-time "deal engine." Unlike daily deal publishers, individual customers transact directly with the restaurant thereby eliminating LiveDeal as an intermediary in the sale. LiveDeal Inc. plans to continue its expansion into major metropolitan regions throughout 2014.
"New York City is the heart and soul of a major marketplace where we believe that livedeal.com will flourish," said Jon Isaac, President and CEO of LiveDeal. "Our platform is thriving because it drives business to merchants in a manner that is unlike what they have with the typical daily-deal service. We believe that clients realize tremendous value in our solution because they have more control and choice than they have had before. We think New York City was the next logical city to launch the livedeal.com platform and that New York City is ready to capitalize on this," Mr. Isaac continued.
What is livedeal.com?
livedeal.com is a unique, real-time "deal engine" connecting merchants with consumers. The Company believes that it has developed a first-of-its-kind web/mobile platform providing restaurants with full control and flexibility to instantly publish customized offers whenever they wish to attract customers. The website includes a number of user and restaurant-friendly features, including:
Restaurants can sign up to use the LiveDeal platform at the Company's website (www.livedeal.com).
About LiveDeal Inc.
LiveDeal Inc. provides marketing solutions that boost customer awareness and merchant visibility on the Internet. LiveDeal operates a deal engine, which is a service that connects merchants and consumers via an innovative platform that uses geo-location, enabling businesses to communicate real-time and publish instant offers to nearby consumers. In November 2012, LiveDeal commenced the sale of marketing tools that help local businesses manage their online presence under the Company's Velocity Local™ brand. LiveDeal continues to actively develop, revise, and evaluate these products and services and its marketing strategies and procedures. For more information, visit www.livedeal.com.
Forward-Looking and Cautionary Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking" statements that are based on present circumstances and on LiveDeal's predictions with respect to events that have not occurred, that may not occur, or that may occur with different consequences and timing than those now assumed or anticipated. Such forward-looking statements, including any statements regarding the plans and objectives of management for future operations or products, the market acceptance or future success of our products, and our future financial performance, are not guarantees of future performance or results and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from the events or results described in the forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are made only as of the date of this release and LiveDeal does not undertake and specifically declines any obligation to update any forward-looking statements. Readers should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements.
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Source: LiveDeal Inc.
Released February 13, 2014