AmazonLocal deals hit NYC: Now in 30 locations, 10 states

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Amazon.com is quickly becoming a sizable player in the booming and competitive market for local deals. The company announced this morning that its AmazonLocal deals marketplace will be expanding into New York City in the coming weeks, offering special offers from merchants in Downtown, Midtown, Uptown, and Brooklyn. Examples of deals to be offered in… Read More…

Kindle Daily Deal: Amazon debuts e-book discounts

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Amazon.com this morning debuted a new e-book discount program, Kindle Daily Deal, that will offer one Kindle book each day at a specially discounted price. Depending on the quality of the selected titles, this promises to be highly interesting for voracious readers or deal hounds, or people who are some combination of the two. The… Read More…

Meet Darrell Cavens: The guy who just raised $43M and wants to change how moms shop for kids

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Startups, by their very nature, are built to move fast. But Zulily, the Seattle daily deal site that just scored $43 million in venture capital, takes the concept to an entirely new level having grown from four to 240 employees in 18 months. In fact, CEO Darrell Cavens and the rest of his team have… Read More…

Daily deal site Zulily raises $43 million at huge valuation of more than $700 million

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Plopped in the middle of Zulily’s Seattle office is a colorful cardboard rocket ship marking the entrance to the company’s HR and recruiting department. It’s a popular destination. The daily deal site for baby and children’s products has already outgrown three office buildings and mushroomed from two co-founders to 240 employees since it was founded… Read More…

Morning Radar: Pirq launches a Groupon rival; Insitu’s new aircraft

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Pirq, the mobile daily deal startup led by James Sun, the former star on “The Apprentice,” has officially launched its iPhone app. The free app allows users to browse offers at more than 130 restaurants in the Seattle area, including O’Asian, Grand Cru and Utopia. An Android app is in the works, along with an… Read More…

Morning Radar: Windows Phone’s new logo, TechStars as reality TV, and more

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Microsoft’s Windows Phone appears to be getting a new logo – shifting from a round icon to a square one that more closely matches the mobile operating system’s tile interface. The new look is presumably slated for official release with the debut of the Windows Phone 7.5 “Mango” update this fall. The City of Renton just topped… Read More…

With ex-Yahoo execs at the helm, ChoozOn raises $3.2 million to help sort through daily deal clutter

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ChoozOn, the Bellevue company that helps consumers sort through the clutter of daily deals, has raised a $3.2 million first round of financing. Investors include Michael Orsak of Worldview Technology Partners and James Brown of AVG Ventures, both of whom have joined the board. We wrote about the company — led by Usama Fayyad, Nick Weir… Read More…

After working with Oprah, Tina Kirkpatrick looks to put Gilt City on the map in Seattle

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Tina Kirkpatrick spent the past few years in Chicago, including a stint working as a buyer for Oprah’s Harpo Productions. But the 33-year-old Seattle native is excited to be back in her city leading the charge for Gilt City. As we’ve noted in the past, there’s no shortage of daily deal sites. But Kirkpatrick actually… Read More…

Gilt City arrives in Seattle, offers deals on spas, meals and movies

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Get ready shoppers. Gilt Groupe today is launching its Gilt City private sale service in Seattle, one of four new cities that the luxury online retailer is setting up in the U.S. With the launch, Gilt City is now available in 10 cities including Atlanta, New York, San Francisco and L.A. Gilt City is starting… Read More…

Off & Away unfurls daily deal service for hotel rooms

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Off & Away has quietly rolled out a new private sale service that allows its users to sign up for daily deals on luxury hotel rooms, earning discounts of as much as 50 percent. The Seattle online travel startup kicked off the new offering on Tuesday, complementing the online hotel auction service that it unveiled… Read More…