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Comcast will let you watch Amazon Prime Video like a cable channel

Amazon is getting some prime real estate on Comcast’s X1 service.  On Thursday, Amazon and Comcast said that they’ll incorporate Amazon’s streaming video service onto X1, the cable company’s high-tech pay-TV service, used by about 62 percent of its customers. The new partnership means Amazon’s library of streaming video will be available and searchable on Comcast X1, like a regular …

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Brookstone, your mall’s tacky gadget store, just went bankrupt

Where, oh where will we buy cheaply made electronic toys now? Toys R Us is gone, and now mall fixture Brookstone is joining it in brick-and-mortar purgatory.  The company filed for Chapter 11 bankcruptcy today, and has just announced it’ll be closing all 101 of its stores in shopping malls around the United States. Technically, it isn’t dead quite yet, …

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