Articles about Daily Deals

Amazon to shut down daily deals service and Amazon Local app later this year

Amazon is shutting down its daily deals program and discontinuing the Amazon Local app along with it. The Seattle online giant… Read More

Groupon opens up a new marketplace, aiming to undercut Amazon, eBay

Groupon has launched what it is calling Groupon Stores, a third-party marketplace that will require participating merchants to sell their products… Read More

Groupon just launched hourly deals, a fine-tuned relative of the daily deal

One of Groupon’s early goals was to help restaurants fill seats that would otherwise have gone empty, but that didn’t always… Read More

The honeymoon is over: Expedia and Groupon no longer co-branding travel deals

Groupon and Expedia are scaling back a 3-year-old partnership that focused on selling heavily discounted travel deals together. A Groupon spokesman… Read More

No coupon? No problem: Microsoft linking daily deals directly to credit card

Microsoft Bing is launching a test program in Seattle this week that aims to overcome one of the challenges of… Read More

Geek of the Week: Zulily engineer Steve Reed, self-taught programmer

Steve Reed grew up in Seattle, studied astronomy and physics in college, and learned to program on the bus. How… Read More

Geek of the Week: Prateek Jetly is aiming to disrupt the world of daily deals

Prateek Jetly was in the 8th grade, playing games in an Indian army computer lab when the commanding officer walked… Read More

LivingSocial closes Seattle office; employees told to work remotely

Amazon.com-backed LivingSocial, the Washington D.C.-based daily deals site, has shut down its Seattle office. The news was first reported by Forbes and we’ve… Read More

Report: Zulily rival Totsy is going down the tubes

Did Totsy just tumble? That’s the word from PandoDaily, which reports that the money-losing New York-based flash sales site is… Read More

Deal site Tippr bought by nCrowd

Updated at 7:40 a.m. with comments from Tippr CEO Martin Tobias. Tippr, the heavily-funded Seattle daily deals platform, has been… Read More

Zulily rival Totsy buys assets of daily deal site Mamasource

New York-based Totsy today is announcing that it has acquired the assets of Mamasource, a daily deal site for moms.… Read More

LivingSocial cuts 400 staffers, Seattle office takes a hit

LivingSocial, the Washington D.C.-based daily deals site, has laid off 400 staffers as it aims to turn a profit, a… Read More

Meet the man behind Seattle’s newest $1B startup: ‘We are still in the early days’

Not many startup companies boast a $1 billion valuation — especially after just three short years in business. But that’s… Read More

Daily deal site Zulily raises $85 million from Andreessen Horowitz, tops 10M members

Fast-growing daily deal site Zulily has pulled in an additional $85 million in venture capital financing, cash that the Seattle… Read More

Hot yoga, cooking classes and … Washington football tickets? UW selling seats on Groupon

When I first came across Washington Huskies football tickets on Groupon two months ago, I wondered if it was a… Read More

Beer-loving serial entrepreneur Raghav Kher touts LetsPour

Raghav Kher has started companies around online marketplaces (Imandi.com); IT automation (Rendition Networks); and movie rentals (India’s Seventymm). Now, the… Read More

Woot founder: Goodbye Amazon

Woot founder Matt Rutledge is leaving Amazon.com, a little more than two years after the online retailer purchased the daily… Read More

Groupon hires ex-Amazon GM to lead Seattle office

Groupon is the latest tech giant to plant a flag in Seattle, opening an office in Seattle’s International District with… Read More

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz departs Groupon’s board

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has stepped down from the board of Groupon just 16 months after joining forces with the… Read More

Daily deal site Tippr offers a full refund after duped by fake Bose headsets

In what CEO Martin Tobias described as the company’s first mass refund, Seattle daily deal site Tippr has apologized to… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Knotis looks to turn merchants into happy daily deal users

You’ve heard the horror stories of small businesses getting overwhelmed by daily deals from the likes of Groupon and Living… Read More

Amazon’s discounted gift cards set blistering pace for daily deals

[Correction: Post updated to reflect the fact that Amazon’s deal was one of the fastest-selling in daily deals history, but… Read More

Amazon boosts AmazonLocal with $10 gift card for $5

Many companies are still trying to make it in the market for daily deals, competing with giant Groupon and a… Read More

Daily deal site Tippr lays off 25 staffers, restructures sales

Tippr, the daily deal technology services startup led by Seattle entrepreneur Martin Tobias, laid off 25 employees today as part… Read More

Amazon filing shows $558M loss for LivingSocial in 2011

How much does it cost to bulk up and compete with the likes of Groupon in the daily deals market? Amazon.com’s… Read More

SnapIn founder Brian Roundtree scores cash for ‘personal shopper’ service nFluence Media

SnapIn Software was one of the better outcomes in the Seattle technology community in recent years, with the mobile software… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Deals4Dreams looks to do well, by doing good

At this time of year, it is important to remember the importance of giving back. So, in the spirit of… Read More

Daily deal site Zulily to add up to 600 jobs in central Ohio

Zulily, the fast-growing Seattle daily deals site, is planning to establish a new distribution and fulfillment center in central Ohio… Read More

Fisher Interactive unveils daily deal site SeattleNow.com

Fisher Interactive Network has launched a new daily deal Web site under the name SeattleNow.com, an offering that the company said… Read More

Report: LivingSocial is raising $200 million at a $5 billion valuation

Groupon has already taken the public markets by storm, with the Chicago-based daily deal site posting a massive $16 billion… Read More