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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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The D. E. Shaw group's direct capital unit is focused on providing debt and equity capital to small and midsized businesses in all industry sectors throughout North America. We seek to build long-term recurring business relationships with management teams, lending institutions, financial sponsors, and intermediaries.

The unit is headquartered in Houston, Texas, and maintains offices in New York City, the Washington, D.C. area, and Silicon Valley. Our management team of seasoned professionals possesses many years of experience in principal investing, corporate restructuring, and corporate finance. Many members of the team have worked together for over eight years, enabling cohesive evaluation and efficient execution of investment opportunities. With no investment restrictions and a small group of decision-makers, our direct capital group offers capital solutions on an expedited basis.

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The D. E. Shaw group is a global investment and technology development firm with more than 1,200 employees, approximately $21 billion in investment capital as of July 1, 2011, and offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

The central focus of the D. E. Shaw group is the pursuit of potentially attractive investment opportunities, and in some cases, the active creation of new ones. Such opportunities form the basis for a number of funds and other investment vehicles, and for the firm's management of assets on behalf of institutional clients.

Investments include both publicly traded and privately held financial instruments, certain physical commodities and commercial rights, and in some cases, entire companies. The firm also provides individually tailored debt and equity financing to both healthy and financially distressed companies, makes venture capital investments in early- and later-stage ventures, and organizes and develops new technology-oriented ventures of its own.

Direct Capital

The D. E. Shaw group's direct capital unit is focused on providing debt and equity capital to small and midsized businesses in all industry sectors throughout North America. We seek to build long-term recurring business relationships with management teams, lending institutions, financial sponsors, and intermediaries.

The unit is headquartered in Houston, Texas, and maintains offices in New York City, the Washington, D.C. area, and Silicon Valley. Our management team of seasoned professionals possesses many years of experience in principal investing, corporate restructuring, and corporate finance. Many members of the team have worked together for over eight years, enabling cohesive evaluation and efficient execution of investment opportunities. With no investment restrictions and a small group of decision-makers, our direct capital group offers capital solutions on an expedited basis.

Shaw has experienced tremendous growth since it was founded in 1986 by Chairman, President and CEO J.M. Bernhard Jr. and two colleagues. Discover how a company that first specialized in pipe fabrication has become one of the world’s leading providers of engineering, construction, technology, fabrication, remediation and support services.

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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Shaw Capital Management and Financing provide same-day-funding. We can help you meet your cashflow needs immediately without entering into a long term factoring relationship. The money you get for the freight bills we purchase is payment in full.
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Shaw Capital Management and Financing offer funding for a wide range of industries and flexible funding requirements that most businesses can easily qualify for.
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