Posts Tagged ‘Startup’

Social Media Start-up Dobango Announces Free Black Friday Deals

Saturday, December 3rd, 2011


Sunnyvale, Calif. (PRWEB) November 21, 2011

Dobango, Inc., a social media start-up, today announced its 10-For-10 Black Friday Program free to all users. The company will offer $ 10 gift cards from 10 national chains such as Best Buy.

Customers compete for offers by playing play2Win, the Dobango gaming suite. Offers and games are available on Dobangos Facebook page, its iPhone app, and its web site. Unlike other Black Friday deals, Dobango offers free rewards to its users.

“10-For-10 Black Friday deals are absolutely free, said John Flood, vice president of business development at Dobango. Our program rides the excitement of the Black Friday shopping fever and engages a national audience, Flood said. Ten-For-Ten goes beyond our local merchant strategy. Winners redeem the rewards in any region of the country.

By combining the power of mobile, Facebook, Twitter, and the Web, Dobango amplifies the ability of businesses to connect and engage customers. Local merchants run offers, discounts and deals. Dobangos Facebook application allows members to play tournaments, challenge friends, share and post comments.

Dobango launched its 30-second play2Win on its web site in July. The company has added more than 200 retail establishments and restaurants including the Gordon Biersch Brewing Company of San Jose, Calif., and BlueLight Cinemas in Cupertino, Calif.

Android and iPad versions are in development. The Facebook application can be found at: .

About Dobango, Inc.

Dobango is a social media company that helps businesses connect with customers using fun, casual games on the Web, Facebook, Twitter and mobile devices.

Dobango provides OEM opportunities for companies looking to extend their offerings to mobile and social platforms.

Dobango is privately held and is based in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information, call , or go to http://www.dobango.com.

Media Contact:

John Flood

Dobango, Inc.

1250 Oakmead Pkw, Suite 210,

Sunnyvale, CA 94085



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Small Tech Start-up “Blip A Deal” Organizes The Daily Deal & Group Buying Markets Worldwide

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010

Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) November 28, 2011

Having launched globally just weeks ago, Blip A Deal organizes over 10,000 deals from 12 countries worldwide. This global deal aggregator ensures that both English and non-English readers have easy access to numerous deals in their preferred languages. Blip A Deal also mobilizes the deals complete with language specific features through iPhone and Android, with an app for the Blackberry coming soon. Over the short period of time it has been available, the Blip A Deal mobile apps have seen 30,000+ downloads in Australia alone.

Blip A Deal currently presents daily deals from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Users can access these deals from a single site or through their mobile devices and select those available in 500 cities worldwide.

Blip A Deal is unique in giving users access to daily deals internationally as they travel, making deals searchable by keyword and giving them the ability to browse by subject area, such as food and beverages, health and beauty, or activities and experiences. Users can also search by the popularity or newness of the deal offered and are given the option of subscribing to a daily email featuring new deals from the cities and countries they select.

Offers in foreign languages are presented either in the local language or translated into English for the convenience of users from English speaking countries. This is a feature often missing from deal websites presenting deals from non-English speaking areas of the world.

It is the continuing aim of the Blip A Deal service to find new and novel ways to organize deal data for the expanding worldwide market. The company knows the deal market is in its infancy and is preparing to capture new regions and add exciting innovative features to their product line. Blip A Deal plans to lead the way in incorporating a users preferences so the best deals can be filtered and targeted to them, further reducing deal information overload and giving the user exactly what they are looking for in a deal.

About Blip A Deal

Founded in Australia in 2011, Blip A Deal is a comprehensive site for group buying deals with over 10,000 deals listed each day from 12 countries and 500+ locations around the globe. They list deals from major group buying sites and deliver these straight to their user via their website and through their network of integrated mobile applications – iPhone / Android. For more information, visit http://www.blipadeal.com

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