Yipit's daily report about the transaction: industry earnings profit dips, Groupon and travel deals take off

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Yipit, a site that collects and recommends daily transactions, based on custom field and interests (6 million dollars and raised back in June with many VCs), released some interesting data trends today on daily transaction space. In General, July was not a memorable month for the industry daily deals, although there have been several clear winners, including all your favourite transaction site, big kahuna Groupon.

Based on data collected from more than 650 daily transactions services, Yipit discovered that the industry's total revenue fell in July to 7% in North America's largest markets — in spite of a slight overall increase proposals. The data also shows that the number of daily deals sites, decreased slightly in July, with 38 sites of deals, closing their doors, compared with 36 new sites launched.

While the big players, according to the report, Groupon in revenue decreased 4% from June, as, unlike the income fell by LivingSocial significant 18 per cent. Although the gap has widened its Groupon rival in July, income both companies declined by more than 20% in the first half of July, compared with the first half of June. However, although the Groupon in revenue in the second half of July have actually increased in the second half of June, LivingSocial has declined. Also note: Groupon more than twice the gross revenue than LivingSocial. Not a good month for Groupon in competitor.

As one might expect on the previous data, Groupon nabbed a little market share at the expense of its competitor, reversing a trend that persisted over the past several months. Groupon thus continues to maintain his iron grip on the proportion of the total market, representing almost 50 per cent of the total daily transaction market, more than doubled to 21 percent, LivingSocial and so much more than the next opponent in the list, Travelzoo and currently make up only 5 percent of the market.

GroupOn also owned a high gross transactions in July, the report said, as his Photoboom of America decide to generate income in the top 30 $575,505 North American markets. GroupOn and LivingSocial dominated the top ten gross is seen in space, six of the top 10, compared with four for LivingSocial.

Other interesting data points include the fact that, despite its relatively small chunk of market share, compared with the top dogs, Travelzoo, continued to actively expand its "local transaction", offering an increasing number of transactions available in the top 30 North American markets on 48 percent, record revenue growth of more than 35 per cent.

And it seems that just as Google you must mention in seemingly every other industry trend report, search giant is now find their way into daily transactions statistics as well as Google offers "to continue to have a significantly lower prices and revenue from a transaction than Groupon, LivingSocial deals" or according to the report. In doing so, while Google offers the average number of vouchers was only slightly less than Groupon and LivingSocial, income from transaction was significantly lower.

Google offers launched in Portland, but has expanded to New York and San Francisco. Of course while Google plans to begin making waves in new towns, especially in view of the fact that the report notes that Google offers fought in Portland in July, the creation of less that 10 per cent of the income that Groupon in Portland in July.

But perhaps the big winner in daily space "travel deals" websites, which continued to grow in July accounted for six of the top 10 deals in July — and became the third largest daily deal category with travel deals, accounting for six of the top 10 deals and almost 15 per cent of income in the industry.

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The transaction value (M) & A Tech has almost doubled in Q2 2011 up to $ 52.1 billion.

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While tech company IPOS captured the buzz Lately, it looks like the boom (M) & (A) activities in the sector. According to a report by Ernst & Young & big deal forced the aggregated value of the global technology M & A $ 52.1 billion in the second quarter of 2011, nearly double the value of the transaction from the first quarter (up to 92 percent to be exact).

Ernst & Yang said that the increase was due mainly to the consolidation of the industry and introduced innovations in areas such as cloud computing, smart mobility, Internet and mobile video, smart grid and solar energy.

In General, the case volume for the quarter increased by 24% over year (YOY) 777 deals but declined 2% sequentially from 794 deals in the first quarter of 2011. This was the first sequential quarterly decline since the first quarter of 2009.

Value (M) & (A) this last quarter was 69%, higher than the same quarter in 2010 when the deal is estimated in & A M $ 30.8 billion. The average of the deals in Q2 values disclosed grew $ 194 million, which is the highest quarterly average since the first quarter of 2000, during the dot-com boom. Q2 2011 also includes 20 major global technology case ever dollar (US $ 8.5 billion cash acquisition of Skype by Microsoft?).

The report also shows that while 61% of all significance was concentrated in the Top 10 deals, tech industry saw significant transaction making strength in transactions with less than 100 million dollars.

Microsoft-Skype was the largest transaction in the quarter, followed by Texas instrument $ 6.5 billion acquisition of National Semiconductor. The other was the deal for the quarter included applied materials 4.6 billion acquisition of Varian Semiconductor and Toshiba $ 2.3 billion buy Landis.

In particular, semiconductor (M) & A led 10.9 billion for the quarter and cloud computing and SaaS company continued to manage both large and small transactions. For example the link century bought Savvis for $ 2.3 billion in the quarter.

Outside their own countries more and more companies are also looking for acquisitions. Ernst & Young data show that "transboundary" case volume in 2Q 2011 was 16% higher, compared with 11% decrease in transactions at the border. The report suggests that the increasing globalization and the increasing amount of "Overseas" cash stocks of the American company can be an increase in the CB transaction solutions like the United States has acquired 56 per cent of the value of all CB acquired.

Some of the other big deals (M) & (A) in the second quarter include EA $ 1.3 billion acquisition of PopCap Games, Providence Equity 1.6 billion acquisition of the Board, Epicor and Activant in nearly $ 2 billion transactions and level 3 's $ 3 billion to acquire global crossing.

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