If you’ve used Foursquare, you’ve likely seen the little badge that appears in the corner of your mobile phone’s screen when a deal is nearby. It’s a good way to alert someone to a location-based offer, and it seems to be working well for the company. A new startup, TappLocal wants to take that idea [...]

Brand Affinity Technologies (BAT), the company that creates a technology that matches celebrities with endorsement deals, has just raised $ 20 million in Series C funding led by Miramar Venture Partners, with existing investors Newport Coast Investments, RimLight Capital, Fulcrum Venture Capital, CGI Opportunity Fund II, and Ad Pepper Media International also participating. This brings [...]

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One publicly traded Web business that seems to be humming (unlike AOL) is OpenTable. The company announced second quarter earnings last night. Revenues were up 37 percent to $ 22.5 million, and net profits rose a whopping 273 percent to $ 2.6 million. To make those diners even more loyal, OpenTable is getting into group [...]

Zulily, a private-sale shopping site targeted at ‘busy moms’ and their kids, has raised $ 6 million in Series B funding led by August Capital, with participation by existing investor Maveron. The round brings the total funds raised to date by the niche daily deals site to $ 10.6 million. TechCrunch

It’s been two months to the day since Rdio launched in the States – check out Erick’s review if you’re interested in learning more about the (awesome) social music service. But until today, you needed to be invited by another user to gain access to the service. Not that it was all that difficult – [...]

The Connecticut attorney general, Richard Blumenthal, has opened up an investigation into whether or not the deals Amazon and Apple have cut with publishers for the sale of e-books have violated any sort of rules of regulations. The fear is that the deals Amazon and Apple have worked out with top publishers may lock out [...]

When Twitter first strolled into the world of commerce with EarlyBird. I yawned. Two-for-one tickets to the “Sorcerer’s Apprentice?” Pass. A 32″ Vizio HDTV from Target for $ 349.99? Oh boy! Except now it’s on sale for $ 359.99, a staggering difference of $ 10. Exasperated sigh. That’s not even enough to buy a ticket [...]

It looks like Yelp is looking to cash in on the local deal craze. As the folks over at deal aggregator YipIt first noticed, Yelp has recently been testing time-limited local deals in a select number of pilot cities. The proof lies in a comment thread that began June 23, when a Yelp user noticed [...]

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