To clarify, Dealtime and Shopping.com are the same company. Dealtime rebranded itself in 2003 but kept the old brand around in both US and UK.
Also, it's interesting in that Shopping.com (along with many others it competes with) has always been troubled by its merchant partners' disdain for their bidding on brand names/performing arbitrage in search engines. Now Shopping.com wants to get hands on more customer data -- to own them (via their universal cart move). Should be interesting!
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Also, it's interesting in that Shopping.com (along with many others it competes with) has always been troubled by its merchant partners' disdain for their bidding on brand names/performing arbitrage in search engines. Now Shopping.com wants to get hands on more customer data -- to own them (via their universal cart move). Should be interesting!