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 …

Amazon now has such a vast inventory of stuff, it needs to work a little harder to find new products to sell you. The online retailer is doing just that by teaming up with Kickstarter to offer more than 300 products that originated on the crowdfunding site. The products, dubbed the Kickstarter Collection, can be found on the startup-focused Amazon …

Apple will report its quarterly results today, and the numbers shouldn’t be pretty. After riding the mobile wave since 2007, the Silicon Valley giant faces softer profits now that phone sales have slowed. With the upcoming iPhone expected to offer few improvements, Apple’s tough times may continue. Verizon also was hit by a cooler phone market, with the wireless carrier …

Verizon snagged itself another Internet pioneer. Now what? The US’ biggest wireless carrier agreed to buy Yahoo for $4.8 billion, following Verizon’s purchase last year of AOL for $4.4 billion. But with both AOL and Yahoo well past their primes, there are plenty of questions lingering about why Verizon wanted these two companies and what it plans to do with …

With the Republican National Convention reaching its crescendo Thursday with a major speech from Donald Trump, we discuss the event taking over Twitter this week. Check out our other RNC coverage, on defending the convention from potential cyberattacks and wireless carriers beefing up their networks for the conventions, too. Also on this podcast, we talk about the new Tinder Social …

Twitter admits it needs to do a better job handling trolls, and it made at least one step in that direction. The social-media site permanently banned conservative commentator Milo Yiannopoulos after he incited a Twitter mob to bully “Ghostbusters” star Leslie Jones with racist and misogynist tweets. We debate Twitter’s next move forward and how it may balance First Amendment …

Despite a few hiccups and an early report that suggested Amazon’s Prime Day may be a dud, the online retailer reported that this year’s sale ended up being its biggest sales day ever. Following its second year, Prime Day now looks to have solidified its place as a regular sales holiday, albeit one Amazon made up. We also discuss Firefox’s …

On an otherwise typical Tuesday in July, Amazon pulled off the biggest single day of sales in its more than 20 years of doing business, outdoing all previous Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. The company said Wednesday that customer orders for its second annual Prime Day sale outpaced last year’s inaugural Prime Day by more than 60 percent worldwide …

When Greg Greeley and his team flipped the switch on the first-ever Prime Day last year, starting in Japan, they quickly realized their idea to host a major sales event in July would pay off. “We knew immediately when we turned on Japan and saw the response from Japanese Prime members that we had hit upon something special,” Greeley, the …

Want an Amazon tablet for the price of four movie tickets? Just wait until next week. As part of the online retailer’s Prime Day sale this upcoming Tuesday, the company is cutting the price on its $50 Fire tablet to under $35, an Amazon representative told CNET on Friday. Amazon has been teasing out different Prime Day deals throughout the …