This story is part of 2019 Holiday Survival Guide, featuring tips on the best ways to manage the holiday season. Football fans have more than just the NFL Combine to get their pigskin action this weekend. The XFL’s inaugural season continues to provide actual games, and some of them are actually good! With just over a third …
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Walmart is again putting together a paid membership program to compete with Amazon Prime. The retail giant has been working on a service called Walmart Plus for 18 months, as reported earlier Thursday by Vox. The service could be tested publicly next month, Vox said, and would be a rebranding of the big-box chain’s $98 a year Delivery Unlimited program …
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Oscar-winner Parasite is heading to Hulu — and subscribers of the Disney-run streaming service won’t have to wait long to watch it again. On Monday the service took to Twitter to announce it’s adding the recently crowned Best Picture to its stable on April 8. The rumors are true. #Parasite is coming to Hulu on April 8. pic.twitter.com/d6I3IJocBv — Hulu (@hulu) …
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I’m a big fan of subscribing to HBO on an as-needed basis, like when a favorite series returns. I’ll often sign up for a month or two, then cancel until I’m ready for another binge. Previously I did that via Hulu, but this time I’m returning through Amazon because of this deal: Amazon Prime subscribers can add HBO for $9.99 …
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Where we’re going, we don’t need Blu-rays. You know, because of streaming. But sometimes it’s nice to still own a chunk of plastic with a super-high-resolution copy of your favorite movie on it. Few people will argue that the Back to the Future trilogy is one of mankind’s greatest artistic achievements, and now you can own the Back to the …
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Netflix is big and it’s getting bigger. And we’re not just watching it on our phones and tablets: That dominance translates to the biggest screen in US homes too, according to a new study Tuesday from TV-measurement giant Nielsen. Netflix gobbles up 31% of streaming to TVs, beating every other service. In what may come as a surprise, YouTube is a …
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Bong Joon-ho may be new to American audiences, but the South Korean filmmaker has been making movies for more than two decades. Parasite became the first foreign-language film in Oscars history to win best picture, and Bong also took home the best director award along with two other statues for best international feature film and original screenplay. Read more: Oscars 2020 …
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Amazon was once again in the $1 trillion club, though just for a short while. The online retail giant’s market capitalization topped $1 trillion Friday, opening at $2,051.47 a share after reporting strong earnings on Thursday. Shares lost some of their momentum throughout the day, closing at $2,008.72, which puts the company’s market cap at around $995 billion. Amazon’s stock …
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Amazon on Thursday revealed it now has more than 150 million paid Prime members globally. The company last offered a specific figure on paid Prime memberships in April 2018, when it said the number was over 100 million. The new figure was announced as part of Amazon’s unexpectedly strong fourth-quarter earnings report. Amazon said Thursday that more people joined Prime in …
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It’s OK if you got motion sickness from following Amazon’s earnings reports over the past year. Case in point: The e-commerce heavyweight’s profits crashed in the second and third quarters of 2019, following a heady string of record earnings. And just when profits seemed to be on their way down, they’re right back up again in the fourth quarter, just …
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