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Running a restaurant has never been easy, but it's getting harder to succeed these days for eateries that shun the social couponing and new media games. A decade ago, all you needed was a strong concept, a healthy strategy and a few ads in the local paper, but the Internet has changed everything.

The restaurant reservation site OpenTable has launched heavily discounted Groupon-style vouchers for restaurants in Boston and New York that save you 40% off your tab. There is only one deal in each city, however, so don't get your hopes up too fast. For both deals, you pay $25 for $50 worth of...

All of a sudden, there's a queue for IPOs. While few observers were paying attention, and the IPO market was assumed to be all but dead, the line was forming and growing. The IPO pipeline increased to 34 registrants seeking to raise $10.9 billion as of Sept. 30, up from 28 registrants seeking to...

Tomorrow's initial public offering by OpenTable, the online restaurant reservation service, may be a sign that investors are regaining their appetite for riskier IPOs. How so? Despite losing $1 million last year, the company yesterday raised the target price it's seeking for its shares to as much...