September 15th, 2011

AmazonLocal Brings Daily Deals To A Kindle Near You

AmazonLocal on Kindleyoga

It may have started with a quiet rollout, but a recent announcement shows that it’s AmazonLocal‘s time to get loud. According to Amazon, their Groupon-esque deals service will start displaying bargains on their Special Offer-oriented Kindles when a new software update goes live in coming weeks.

AmazonLocal, which came about due to Amazon’s partnership with LivingSocial, is currently live in 44… → Read More

August 21st, 2011

Does Groupon Hope To Challenge Amazon With ‘Groupon Goods’?

groupon

Last week, daily deals giant Groupon registered a bunch of domain names with ‘groupongoods’ in them (.com, .net, .us, .info, .biz and interestingly, .fr). Evidently, securing those domain names doesn’t necessarily mean the company is going to debut a service by the name ‘Groupon Goods’ soon or even in the distant future, but let’s hypothesize for a moment that this is exactly what they’re planning… → Read More