The Wall Street Journal — "App Watch: LivingSocial Helps Smartphone Users Hunt Deals"
LivingSocial, the daily-deal site and Groupon competitor, has started a pilot program that lets customers use their smartphone’s location-sensing abilities to find deals around them.
The service, called LivingSocial Instant, launched today and is initially available only in some neighborhoods of the company’s home base of Washington, D.C. Customers who update LivingSocial’s iPhone or Android app today will see a new category called Instant Deals.
