Pirq is moving beyond the restaurant business, announcing today that its mobile app now includes real-time deals in categories such as retail, recreation and beauty. It also rolled out a new digital punch card service that allows consumers to compile rewards from local merchants. Like the coupon offering, users of the app compile points for… Read More…
The deals just keep coming for restaurant deal operator Pirq. The Kirkland company today is announcing a partnership with the University of Washington’s Alumni Association, providing exclusive restaurant deals in the Seattle area to its 55,000 members. Pirq is a mobile app that gives restaurant-goers instant access to discounts at local restaurants, with users saving… Read More…
AAA Washington members will soon get an extra benefit beyond towing and travel discounts. In fact, you could say members of the club are getting a nice new perk, or should we say Pirq. Pirq, the Seattle mobile application developer that provides deals on local restaurants, has inked a partnership in which it will bring… Read More…
Inspired by Bill Gates, James Sun baked philanthropy directly into Pirq’s business model from the outset. Ten percent of the revenue from the restaurant deals offered in the Pirq mobile app goes to feeding hungry people in King County. “That felt right,” said the former star of Donald Trump’s The Apprentice. Now, cheap eats can… Read More…
Seattle entrepreneur James Sun traveled to Silicon Valley to raise cash for his new startup, the mobile coupon site Pirq. But, at the end of the day, it was a venture firm just a few blocks away from the company’s Kirkland headquarters that won Sun’s trust. Rally Capital, the venture firm led by former Craig… Read More…
Mark Donohue, a former senior vice president of ad sales at Sony Digital, has joined WildTangent to oversee the Redmond game company’s advertising sales business. Donohue will oversee the company’s social and mobile gaming ad business, and assist with international expansion. WildTangent operates offices in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Redmond, Los Angeles, Toronto and London. “WildTangent is… Read More…
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