BuyWithMe, a group buying startup founded in Boston and based in New York, said today it has acquired Chicago-based DealADayOnline to expand its reach in the city. BuyWithMe, which has raised about $21.5 million in funding, said its service operates in 13 major cities in the U.S. and that it plans to hit twice that amount by the end of this year. Just two months ago the company bought LocalTwist, a daily deals site focused on Seattle and San Diego.
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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.
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