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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is back in court, this time taking on online coupon giant Scoopon.

Australian group buying site, Spreets, has launched a new app for the iPhone with a 'voucher wallet' function which the company says lets users manage all their purchases, from any group buying site, not just Spreets, by aggregating all deal vouchers in a single accessible place.

The few years have seen the daily deal industry literally explode, there are now over 30 daily deal websites operating 10-15 deals. With over 300 deals a day, it's hard to find the deals that suit your personal needs.

In a move to which it says will bring a more social element to its brand, fast food giant HungryJack's has partnered with the Australian group buying site, Scoopon, to run an exclusive national discounted meal deal.

Online group buying has taken off in a big way in the Australian market, with the market now worth nearly nearly half a billion dollars and significant growth predicted over the next 12 months and beyond.

Aussie-owned and operated group buying company, Scoopon, has for the second year running outperformed multinational players LivingSocial and Groupon, to retain overall leadership in the Australian group buying market.

Australians out on a date, even a romantic dinner, are apparently not turned off by their suitor using a group buying voucher on a meal or activity, and quite a few of them say they prefer a pizza and wine deal than a more expensive fine dining option.

The group buying industry has come up with a code of conduct, but it doesn't appear to offer consumers much that they're not already entitled to by law.

Australians, it seems, have gravitated to group buying sites in increasing numbers in the tough economic times of late, as many of them deal with the reality of having less disposable income and are more cautious with their spending.

New Australian daily deal aggregation service targeting intentional buyers is launched in open beta. Yowma aggregates deals from multiple providers (like Groupon or Spreets) and allows consumer to search ones they want and create custom alerts to get notified when new deals matching their specific criteria appears.

Australian businesses are experiencing high satisfaction levels with their group buying campaigns and most will run another campaign in the future, despite perceptions that group buying is bad for business and the persistent myth that sellers are generally dissatisfied with the outcomes of group buying campaigns.

Australians love to bag a bargain as evidenced by the 62 percent surge in online group buying during the first three months of the year.

Honey and Ginger are two savvy Sydney shoppers who know what they want and how to bargain to get a great deal.

Group buying has grown over 400% in just six months, undercutting retail outlets but providing huge savings for Aussie consumers online.

Market research firm Telsyte is forecasting boom times for Australia's fledgling online buying industry, but warns players to brace themselves for the entry of overseas giants Google and Groupon.

Telstra has reported an 18 percent decline in Sensis' Yellow Pages print revenues as advertising moves online, but digital revenue is not growing.

Telstra's directories division, Sensis, has launched a group buying site to compete with the like fof Cudo and Spreets, the latter recently sold to Yahoo!7 for  an undisclosed fee.

Group buying offers amazing savings on beauty treatments, holidays, meals out and more; but keeping up with all the deals can often be time consuming process. Now a new iphone app brings all the deals together.

With group buy sites appearing on a near daily basis, how can you keep track of all the amazing deals on offer? One Aussie start up thinks they have the perfect solution.