Newsmakers 2011: Zulily CEO Darrell Cavens leads daily deal site to meteoric growth Zulily CEO Darrell Cavens likes to move fast, tackling opportunities before the moment passes. And no one, and I mean… Read More
Wishpot jumps into the very crowded arena of travel deals Wishpot faces no shortage of competition with its new daily deal service for travel. After all, in the past few… Read More
Zulily’s Mark Vadon: ‘This is more QVC than Amazon’ I’ve been absolutely fascinated by the meteoric rise of Zulily, the Seattle daily deal site which now boasts more than… Read More
NFL great Lawyer Milloy is an iPhone app fanatic: And, yes, he’s an Angry Birder too As a free safety for the New England Patriots, Lawyer Milloy was known for some smashing hits. Now, the Tacoma… Read More
One place for daily deals: Microsoft Bing’s new aggregation site Microsoft this morning launched Bing Deals, aiming to make its search engine a destination for the wide variety of daily… Read More
Here are the problems facing Groupon and Living Social: Scale, repeat customers and targeting Are Groupon and Living Social the next great things in online advertising? Or, are they just a flash in the… Read More
Amazon integrates AmazonLocal deals service into Kindle Would you like a deal on ice cream along with your daily read? That’s one of the questions Amazon.com’s Kindle… Read More
Google Offers sets its sights on Groupon with whale of a deal at The Seattle Aquarium Google Offers is finally arriving on the shores of Seattle, and it is looking to make chum out of rival… Read More
AmazonLocal deals hit NYC: Now in 30 locations, 10 states Amazon.com is quickly becoming a sizable player in the booming and competitive market for local deals. The company announced this… Read More
Kindle Daily Deal: Amazon debuts e-book discounts Amazon.com this morning debuted a new e-book discount program, Kindle Daily Deal, that will offer one Kindle book each day… Read More
Meet Darrell Cavens: The guy who just raised $43M and wants to change how moms shop for kids Startups, by their very nature, are built to move fast. But Zulily, the Seattle daily deal site that just scored… Read More
Daily deal site Zulily raises $43 million at huge valuation of more than $700 million Plopped in the middle of Zulily’s Seattle office is a colorful cardboard rocket ship marking the entrance to the company’s… Read More
Morning Radar: Pirq launches a Groupon rival; Insitu’s new aircraft Pirq, the mobile daily deal startup led by James Sun, the former star on “The Apprentice,” has officially launched its… Read More
Morning Radar: Windows Phone’s new logo, TechStars as reality TV, and more Microsoft’s Windows Phone appears to be getting a new logo — shifting from a round icon to a square one that more… Read More
With ex-Yahoo execs at the helm, ChoozOn raises $3.2 million to help sort through daily deal clutter ChoozOn, the Bellevue company that helps consumers sort through the clutter of daily deals, has raised a $3.2 million first… Read More
After working with Oprah, Tina Kirkpatrick looks to put Gilt City on the map in Seattle Tina Kirkpatrick spent the past few years in Chicago, including a stint working as a buyer for Oprah’s Harpo Productions.… Read More
Gilt City arrives in Seattle, offers deals on spas, meals and movies Get ready shoppers. Gilt Groupe today is launching its Gilt City private sale service in Seattle, one of four new… Read More
Off & Away unfurls daily deal service for hotel rooms Off & Away has quietly rolled out a new private sale service that allows its users to sign up for… Read More
Ex-star of ‘The Apprentice’ James Sun takes on Groupon with Pirq One of the big problems with daily deal sites like Groupon and Living Social is that the offers tend to… Read More
IPO filing reveals Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s stake in Groupon Groupon’s growth rate over the past two years has been absolutely insane. Consider this: The daily deal site had just… Read More
Fast growing Groupon files for $750 million IPO despite $522 million deficit IPO fever continues to spread through the ranks of technology companies. The latest to catch the bug is Groupon, which… Read More
Is Portland the new Peoria? Google Offers arrives at Floyd’s For years, marketers wondered how their products or services would play in Peoria. Now, is Portland becoming that marketing hotspot… Read More
Tippr buys DealPop social buying site from WhitePages Tippr, the group buying technology company, has acquired the social buying website DealPop from WhitePages. The deal was was announced… Read More
Seattle daily deal site Zulily signs big lease for Sodo office building We’ve been hearing rumors for weeks now about Zulily’s insane growth curve and aspirations for bigger offices. Now, word comes… Read More
BigTip: A deal site for the burbs We’ve certainly seen a number of daily deal sites trying to emulate the success of Groupon and Living Social. And… Read More
Ex-Yahoo execs create ChoozOn to sift through the daily deal clutter Groupon, Living Social and hundreds of other daily deal sites are great … when they offer something of interest. But,… Read More
Once a ‘daily deal’ naysayer, TeachStreet’s Dave Schappell gets the fever A few months ago, TeachStreet founder Dave Schappell was lamenting the fact that nearly everyone he bumped into asked about… Read More
Groupon, LivingSocial challenged over terms of daily deals More and more people have been embracing daily deals, figuring out how to work within the rules and limitations to… Read More
Report: More than 320 daily deal sites operate in the U.S. Maybe there actually is some room for all of those Groupon clones. A new report out from Local Offer Network… Read More
Now there’s an online marketplace for daily deals There’s been a lot of activity in the daily deal space in recent weeks. And now Tippr — the Seattle… Read More
