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.

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Amazon Promotes Gold Box Daily Deals With New iPhone App

Web-based survey giant SurveyMonkey has acquired a 49.9 percent interest in privately owned Clicktools , a survey provider on Salesforce.com’s business app marketplace AppExchange .

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SurveyMonkey Acquires A 49.9 Percent Stake In Clicktools

Many of you may have gone through the rite of passage in grade school called the science fair.

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Google Wants To Find The Next Larry Or Sergey With Online Science Fair

Everybody, it seems , is getting in on the local offers game. Now, so is Meetup , one of the most local sites out there, with Meetup Perks .

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Meetup Perks Helps Local Groups Find Local Sponsors

Nothing speaks to the hearts, minds (and stomachs) of young, urban men than endless rib dinners. Last week, Bro-zine Thrillist launched Thrillist Rewards , a weekly deals site aimed at its audience of city-dwelling males

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At Launch, Thrillist Rewards Sells More Than $25,000 Of Endless Rib Dinners

It’s official: the automotive press loves General Motor’s Chevy Volt as it walks away from the NAIAS as the North American International Car of the Year. The don’t-call-it-an-extended-range EV essentially sweep 2010′s consumer automotive awards, earning the top spot as Motor Trend’s 2011 Car of the Year, Green Car Journal’s 2011 Green Car of the Year, Automobile’s 2011 Automobile of the Year, and placing among the top ten in both Car and Driver’s and Ward’s AutoWorld’s 10 best of the year . So yeah, GM built a winner with the Volt

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Chevy Volt Adds North American Car Of The Year Award To Long List Of Achievements

Saul Klein is a partner at European VC firm Index Ventures, previously worked for Skype, co-founded Video Island and is founder of Seedcamp. In this guest post he responds to recent posts by TechCrunch US writer Paul Carr regarding the position of London as a startup hub.

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