BuyWithMe Picks Up Scoop St.

BuyWithMe, the group buying site with headquarters in Boston and New York, said today that is has acquired Scoop St., a group buying site focused closely on New York local deals. No financial terms were disclosed. BuyWithMe offers will be available to Scoop St. immediately, and come September 12, Scoop St. will no longer be a separate entity and will be entirely rolled into BuyWithMe. This deal continues BuyWithMe’s 2011 spree of acquisitions, including LocalTwist (active in Seattle and San Diego), San Francisco-based Group Swoop, Chicago-based DealADayOnline, and Cambridge, MA-based Edhance.

Author: Erin Kutz

Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.