• Amazon Promotes Gold Box Daily Deals With New iPhone App

    Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

    Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

    Amazon has been offering deals of the day via its Gold Box feature for some time now, but today the retail giant is ramping up the promotion of the deals with the launch of a new dedicated iPhone app.

    Called Amazon Deals, the free app features the daily deals listed on Amazon Gold Box. Consumers can browse deals, shop directly from the app itself and also receive notifications if certain products go on sale. The interface is similar to shopping via the dedicated AmazoniPhone app. The app will also include “Lightening Deals,” which are limited, discounted offers on Amazon products.

    For Amazon, the new iPhone app is a way to more actively promote its deals feature, and allow users to access the deals on the go. This also means that Amazon is getting more serious about the daily deals space, and could be a sign of things to come.

    Amazon has steadily been ramping up its mobile shopping offerings, most recently launching Price Check, which allows users can scan the barcode of a product, take a picture of an item or say the product’s name to access product listings on Amazon.com’s marketplace. The company also released Window Shop, a shopping app for the iPad.

    Company: Amazon
    Website: amazon.com
    Launch Date: 1994
    IPO: NASDAQ:AMZN

    Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), is a leading global Internet company and one of the most trafficked Internet retail destinations worldwide. Amazon is one of the first companies to sell products deep into the long tail by housing them in numerous warehouses and distributing products from many partner companies. Amazon directly sells or acts as a platform for the sale of a broad range of products. These include books, music, videos, consumer electronics, clothing and household products. The majority of Amazon’s...

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