Zulily CEO Darrell Cavens likes to move fast, tackling opportunities before the moment passes. And no one, and I mean no one, moved as quickly in Seattle tech as Cavens… Read More
Wishpot faces no shortage of competition with its new daily deal service for travel. After all, in the past few months Groupon and Expedia have launched a new daily deal… Read More
I’ve been absolutely fascinated by the meteoric rise of Zulily, the Seattle daily deal site which now boasts more than four million members who turn to it every day to… Read More
As a free safety for the New England Patriots, Lawyer Milloy was known for some smashing hits. Now, the Tacoma native and former University of Washington standout spends a good… Read More
Microsoft this morning launched Bing Deals, aiming to make its search engine a destination for the wide variety of daily deals available to consumers in many cities and regions these… Read More
Are Groupon and Living Social the next great things in online advertising? Or, are they just a flash in the pan? That was the fascinating debate which broke out earlier… Read More
Would you like a deal on ice cream along with your daily read? That’s one of the questions Amazon.com’s Kindle will be asking its users as the company brings AmazonLocal… Read More
Google Offers is finally arriving on the shores of Seattle, and it is looking to make chum out of rival Groupon with a half off discount on tickets for the… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
One of the big problems with daily deal sites like Groupon and Living Social is that the offers tend to attract customers at peak business times, causing havoc for small… Read More
Groupon’s growth rate over the past two years has been absolutely insane. Consider this: The daily deal site had just 37 employees and 152,203 subscribers in June 2009. It now… Read More
IPO fever continues to spread through the ranks of technology companies. The latest to catch the bug is Groupon, which today announced that it plans to raise up to $750… Read More
For years, marketers wondered how their products or services would play in Peoria. Now, is Portland becoming that marketing hotspot for the digital generation? Google thinks so, choosing the Rose… Read More
Tippr, the group buying technology company, has acquired the social buying website DealPop from WhitePages. The deal was was announced by the two Seattle-based companies this morning. Tippr says it… Read More
We’ve been hearing rumors for weeks now about Zulily’s insane growth curve and aspirations for bigger offices. Now, word comes that the company — which features daily deals for baby… Read More
We’ve certainly seen a number of daily deal sites trying to emulate the success of Groupon and Living Social. And now, get ready for yet another entrant. BigTip — a… Read More
Groupon, Living Social and hundreds of other daily deal sites are great … when they offer something of interest. But, more often than not, these sites miss the mark with… Read More
A few months ago, TeachStreet founder Dave Schappell was lamenting the fact that nearly everyone he bumped into asked about his company’s “Groupon strategy.” Schappell didn’t like the hype, but… Read More
More and more people have been embracing daily deals, figuring out how to work within the rules and limitations to score sweet discounts from local merchants. The phenomenon has made… Read More
Maybe there actually is some room for all of those Groupon clones. A new report out from Local Offer Network estimates that Americans will spend a whopping $2.6 billion on… Read More
There’s been a lot of activity in the daily deal space in recent weeks. And now Tippr — the Seattle startup — is looking to elevate things a bit with… Read More
