Is Twitter a Groupon Killer?

By Chris Hill – Feb 12, 2013 at 5:56PM

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American Express and Twitter form an interesting new alliance.

The following video is from Tuesday's MarketFoolery podcast, in which host Chris Hill and analysts Andy Cross and Jason Moser discuss the top business and investing stories of the day.

In this segment, Twitter and American Express (AXP 1.15%) have announced a partnership that allows cardholders to buy things simply by typing a hashtag. What will the deal mean for the future of Groupon (GRPN -0.78%) and daily deals? In this installment of MarketFoolery, our analysts tackle those questions.

The relevant video segment can be found between 15:47 and 21:30.

For the full video of today's MarketFoolery, click here.

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