Fugees’ legend and onetime solo singer Lauryn Hill has been a bit of a hermit over the past decade since Miseducation, while she’s been very focused on raising her child. Luckily, she will apparently be coming out of the shadows this winter, performing on a tour that will stop at our very own First Avenue on 1/18. If you are like me you will be buying tickets for this pronto (on sale tomorrow), since who know when we’ll get another chance to see the incredibly private artist perform (that is if she actually does – fingers crossed).
— Jon Behm
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Groupon sues sales staff who quit to join Google
The Independent (London, England) October 26, 2011 | STEPHEN FOLEY Google made a $6bn takeover offer for Groupon last winter but, when that was rebuffed, it set up its rival “daily deals” service called Google Offers – and, according to a lawsuit filed in a Chicago court, poached two key managers who left Groupon in September with confidential information. Michael Nolan, who worked for Groupon for two years, and Brian Hanna, who joined in January, are the subject of the lawsuit. Both worked in Chicago. Google is not a defendant. in our site groupon sandiego
“In their new positions with Google Offers and/or Google, Hanna and Nolan will provide the same or similar services as they provided at Groupon” requiring them “to employ confidential and proprietary information that they learned while employed at Groupon”, according to the complaint. site groupon sandiego
Groupon is seeking a court order to prevent its former employees disclosing information such as customer lists and sales and marketing plans that it says would “irreparably” harm the company if used.
Google, with its huge sales and marketing infrastructure, represents one of the most serious competitors to Groupon, which has seen an explosion in the number of copycat firms.
Concern about the competitive landscape is dogging Groupon’s attempt to float its shares in the US. It said last week it planned to raise up to $540m at a price that values the company at $11.4bn.
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Recent reviews aren’t so good: http://www.bigtakeover.com/concerts/lauryn-hill-higher-ground-s-burlington-vt-sunday-december-19-2010
Yikes. Well, I am still excited. Though $60.00 tix would definitely not be an option, especially considering that it seems like it would be a gamble…
no way in hell i’ll be risking the $$ on this. so far the 2 shows she’s played have not only been pretty sketchy (and 2.5-3 hours late), she’s played a total of 10 songs each.
i feel lucky to have seen her on the Smokin’ Grooves Tour @ Target Center in 2002 w/ The Roots, Outkast, Jurassic 5, & Cee-lo. It was a pretty good set, but solo and most of the material was off her very hit or miss Unplugged 2.0 album.
More negative reviews. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/arts/music/30lauryn.html
I think it is a bit ironic that Prince of all people would leave her show early, considering he is probably one of the few artists out there who is even less cognizant of his fans than Lauryn Hill is