Walmart is ponying up $3.3 billion to buy Jet.com so it can strengthen its online shopping muscle. This means we’ll all be racing to Walmart.com, right? Eh, maybe. The world’s largest retailer has been getting a lot more aggressive in e-commerce over the past year, introducing an Amazon Prime-like unlimited shipping service called ShippingPass, expanding …
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We’re about a month away from Apple’s expected unveiling of its newest iPhone, so we used this episode to discuss many of the rumors circulating about new versions of the phone, Apple Watch and MacBook Pro. There are a few hardware tweaks expected for the iPhone 7, including Apple cutting out the headphone jack to make the phone slimmer and …
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Amazon One is clear for takeoff. The e-commerce heavyweight on Friday revealed one of its new branded cargo airplanes, which it will also showcase this weekend at the Boeing Seafair Air Show in its hometown of Seattle. Dubbed Amazon One, the plane is emblazoned with the Prime Air name on the sides and Amazon’s smile logo on the tail. It …
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Microsoft is keeping up its campaign against Google’s Chrome browser, using Windows 10 notifications to persuade users to stop using Chrome and switch to its own Edge browser instead. The software giant in June came out with a blog post that claimed Edge delivers more battery life for users of Windows 10 than Chrome, Firefox and Opera. The notifications, such …
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A group of more than 100 design industry professionals have backed Apple’s assertion that Samsung should pay for stealing the look of the iPhone. In a brief filed with the US Supreme Court on Thursday, well-known fashion names, including Calvin Klein and Alexander Wang, supported Apple’s claims to hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from Samsung, Reuters reported. Apple …
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Four years ago, Target threw Amazon’s gadgets out of its stores amid heightened competition between the retailers. Now, the big-box chain has reversed course, bringing back Amazon’s Fire tablets, Fire TV devices and Kindle e-readers to its website, with plans to sell the gadgets in stores by October, according to a report from Bloomberg. The Amazon Echo smart speaker, though, …
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Jet.com launched to plenty of fanfare and with a giant war chest just over a year ago. Now, there’s already chatter that the online retailer is ready to sell itself. The company, a rare new competitor for Amazon, is in talks to be bought up by Walmart, according to a report Wednesday from The Wall Street Journal. Jet could could …
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Samsung’s Gear Icon X cord-free earbuds will go on sale in the US on August 15. As previously announced, the headphones will retail for $199. The Bluetooth-powered earbuds, which were first introduced last month, include a wireless-charging case. Battery life is estimated at about three hours on its own as a fitness tracker and music player, or an hour and …
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The Samsung Gear 360, a camera capable of taking 360-degree video and photos, will be widely available on August 19 in the US. The twin-lens ball-shaped gadget, which allows people to shoot their own video for VR headsets and other 360-degree presentations, was on limited availability for $350 in the US since last month and hit the market in South …
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Worry not, Amazon customers! The Dot will return. Amazon’s Echo Dot device sold out earlier this month, sparking rumors that the product had been discontinued. I checked with Amazon, which quickly confirmed that news of the Dot’s demise were greatly exaggerated. The $90 Dot, a hockey-puck shaped speaker that houses Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, was introduced in March along with …
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