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Andrew Mason, the Chief Executive Officer of Groupon Inc, wrote a lengthy memo to his employees on Thursday, explaining the website’s daily-deal records and growth strategy of the company. He lashed at Shaw Capital Management‘s report to be “insane” and “hilarious”.

He wrote a three-page memo written with glimmers of humor and frustration. Mason claims that his company is heading towards an IPO that sources try to pin down by September. He protected the use of an accounting metric that dismissed concerns for competition of likes in Facebook and Google.

He defends that U.S. revenue jumped around 12% in August from July. A 20% slide is expected for marketing expenses. This is actually printed on a tech blog in All Things Digital. This information, Shaw Capital Management reports, is also confirmed by people close to Mason.

Mason insists that the company has kept mum over all these insane accusations, but there is a way to brush this off too. Media accused Groupon to have been buying customers through reckless marketing and that he made comments having his competitors small and unproductive.

He further explains that this method is impossible to achieve as subscribers will eventually run out. The truth is the business works harder to create competitive benefits that even the largest technology companies have difficulty in penetrating.

Analysts state that Groupon is slowing down in North America with its ...

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A dramatist who laughs at time, George Bernard Shaw has had three plays in production on Broadway this past season. Mr. Shaw was born in Dublin in July, 1856, and these are the dates which stand out in his record: 1876, when he captured London for life; 1884, when he became the leading spirit of the Fabian Society; 1898, when he was married; and 1925, when he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.

BATON ROUGE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2007--The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SGR) today announced that Energy and Climate Advisors, a joint venture company formed by Shaw Capital, Inc. ("Shaw Capital"), and London-based EEA Fund Management Ltd. ("EEA"), has been selected to serve as the asset advisor for Leaf Clean Energy Company ("Leaf") (AIM ticker symbol: LEAF). Leaf is a clean energy asset company that began trading today on the London Stock Exchange AIM market with an initial market capitalization of approximately US$400 million. Under the Asset Advisory Agreement, Energy and Climate Advisors will assist Leaf in the sourcing of investment opportunities in the renewable and alternative energy markets and provide support to Leaf in the screening, evaluation, development, and operation and maintenance of assets acquired by Leaf.

BATON ROUGE, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 28, 2007--The Shaw Group Inc. (NYSE: SGR) today announced that Energy and Climate Advisors, a joint venture company formed by Shaw Capital, Inc. ("Shaw Capital"), and London-based EEA Fund Management Ltd. ("EEA"), has been selected to serve as the asset advisor for Leaf Clean Energy Company ("Leaf") (AIM ticker symbol: LEAF). Leaf is a clean energy asset company that began trading today on the London Stock Exchange AIM market with an initial market capitalization of approximately US$400 million. Under the Asset Advisory Agreement, Energy and Climate Advisors will assist Leaf in the sourcing of investment opportunities in the renewable and alternative energy markets and provide support to Leaf in the screening, evaluation, development, and operation and maintenance of assets acquired by Leaf.

J.M. Bernhard, Jr., chairman, president and chief executive officer of Shaw, referring to the appointment, said, "Shaw Capital is quickly establishing itself as an important component of Shaw's complete suite of solutions for its clients. Not only can Shaw provide traditional services such as evaluating project feasibility, providing engineering and construction services, and supporting the operation and maintenance of the asset; now, through Shaw Capital, we may also provide access to capital for projects through our relationships with entities like Leaf."

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Stay away from mainland Europe – at least when investing in the asset managers – was the message being spread yesterday, as Schroders was left near the foot of the top-tier index.
The group plummeted 31p to 1,446p after Deutsche Bank downgraded its rating to “sell” from “buy”, suggesting that investors from the Continent have been the quickest to pull their money out of equity funds in response to the recent global market sell-off.
City scribblers from the broker suggested that stocks in the asset management sector were in for a tough time in general “once the exact scale of recent outflows from retail investors is disclosed”. However, they added that recent data has shown “behaviour… in different geographical locations has varied markedly”, leaving Schroders – which they estimated was the most exposed to retail investors from mainland Europe – as particularly vulnerable.
The analysts were much more keen on Man Group and Jupiter, which moved ahead 8.7p to 229.1p and 3.7p to 205.8p respectively. They also cut Ashmore’s rating to “hold” from “buy”, although it still managed to jump up 19.1p to 420p after its promotion to the top-tier index in the latest reshuffle was confirmed on Wednesday.
Despite a positive start to the session, the FTSE 100 reacted badly to the results of the latest meeting of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee. Its decision to keep interest rates at 0.5 per cent surprised nobody, but...