April 9th, 2013

After Its $100M+ Series A, Donuts, A Register For New gTLDs, Raises “Tens Of Millions” In Series B So It Can Bid For More .Names

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After raising $100M+ last June, Donuts — a registry for the new top-level domain names that ICANN is ushering in this year (such as .yay or .jobs) — has announced it has raised a new funding round. The exact figure for its Series B, which is led by existing investor Generation Partners, has not been disclosed but the company said the equity investment is “twice the valuation” of the Series A. → Read More

June 4th, 2009

PSA: Tomorrow is National Donut Day

Tomorrow is National Donut Day. I love donuts. I feel no personal shame. Donuts and my body mesh well together. If I had an ideal food, it would be donuts. If you like donuts even half as much as I do, you’ll be happy to know that you can get a free donut at Dunkin’ Donuts and/or Krispy Kreme tomorrow. I’m sure you’ll be able to get other deals at your local donut shops as well. → Read More

March 13th, 2009

CrunchDeals: Donut maker for $29.99

  For the cost of just thirty glazed sticks from Dunkin’ Donuts, I could start my own donut shop called Dunkin’ Doug’s Nuts! The BlinQ Donut Maker costs just $29.99 from Overstock.com and can make not four, not five, but SIX donuts in under three minutes. Yum. The machine bakes donuts instead of frying them, so if you eat all six you’ll be extra healthy. Normally priced at almost $50… → Read More

November 21st, 2008

America runs on Dunkin’… will China?

Visit any Dunkin’ Donuts store nowadays and you’ll see signs that say something about how, in a blind taste test, people preferred the company’s coffee to Starbucks’. Yes, fine, the coffee is good, but have you tried the donuts? My God, are they delicious. I know it’s not “cool” to gorge on fried dough anymore, but try a plain stick, a glazed stick, and a chocolate glazed stick the… → Read More

October 31st, 2007

Dough-nu-matic makes mini donuts in under a minute

This, my friends, is a poorly named product. But you know what they say; you can’t judge a donut making machine by its ridiculous hyphen-happy name. → Read More