Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Tippr Launches White Label Program

Seattle-based Tippr, the online group buying site run by Martin Tobias, said today that it has launched a new white-label group buying product. The firm said its PoweredByTippr platform allows publishers to create their own, group buying sites, allowing them to brand, collect customer leads, and run their own group buying sites. Group buying sites, such as Groupon, have become a huge rage in the last year or so. Tippr said that, among other benefits, users of its software will avoid "exhausting intellectual property disputes" due to the firm's patents. Tobias has been buying up patents in the group buying space, and launched Tippr out of a buy of collection of patents it purchased from Vulcan Capital. Tippr is backed by RRE Ventures.