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LivingSocial is an online marketplace that allows clients to buy and share things to do in their city. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., LivingSocial now has more than 70 million members around the world. ==History== LivingSocial was founded as Hungry Machine in 2007 by four employees from Revolution Health Group. The company's first major application was their Visual Bookshelf application on Facebook which allowed users to catalog and share their favorite books with friends. Later, the company released PickYourFive and other Polls applications, making LivingSocial the number one application developer on Facebook as measured by page views.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=LivingSocial Becomes the Largest Facebook Application Ever )〕 After acquiring BuyYourFriendADrink.com in 2009, LivingSocial launched a daily deals website, which since has become its highest grossing venture to date. In 2012 a class action was launched against LivingSocial in respect of expiry of deals, following a similar action against Groupon.〔(Washington Business Journal )〕 A provisional settlement was reached in November 2012. On April 26, 2013 it was announced that LivingSocial's database had been hacked, affecting 50 million registered users. The announcement stated that credit card information was stored in a separate database and was not compromised, but that user information including passwords, previously encrypted by LivingSocial as a precaution, had been exposed. On May 1, 2013, Attorneys General from Connecticut and Maryland Attorney sent a joint letter to LivingSocial requesting additional information about the incident, as well as more details about the company's data management policies and procedures. In November 2013, LivingSocial's website went down for nearly 48 hours after a database error.〔Overly, Steven. ''The Washington Post'', November 17, 2013, "(The Download: LivingSocial goes down for nearly 48 hours after critical database error )". Accessed March 3, 2014.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「LivingSocial」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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