You may already know about the Amazon Prime Rewards Visa card, which automatically gives you 5% back on all purchases on the site (as well as at Whole Foods), 2% back at gas stations, restaurants, and drugstores, and 1% back on pretty much everything else. It’s a credit card that’s been seemingly weaponized to encourage …
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Buying stuff using a phone keeps growing in popularity, with this holiday season showing just how big those little screens have become for retailers. On Cyber Monday, purchases via phones surged to $3.1 billion, helping make it the biggest online sales day in US history, reaching $9.4 billion, according to Adobe. That’s up from $7.9 billion last year. Purchasing peaked …
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Pop quiz: What’s the difference between Black Friday and Cyber Monday? It’s a trick question: One happens on a Friday, the other happens three days later. Because, let’s face it, Cyber Monday is really just Black Friday, part 2. It’s an extension of the latter, the capper to weeks and weeks of Thanksgiving-season sales. (Next up: Weeks and weeks of …
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The kickoff to the holiday shopping season is going pretty much as expected, despite plenty of potential problems that could’ve pushed it off course. Tariffs, anti-Amazon sentiment, worries about the economy — nah, consumers are spending a whole lot to nab all those deals. Black Friday turned out to be the second-largest online sales day ever — shy of last …
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Disney Plus is bringing out the big guns of its many, many studios in its bid to battle Netflix, Warner and others for streaming media dominance. Clamor for the service led to its app being downloaded 3.2 million times to mobile devices in its first day on the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store. With all the demand …
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The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 debuted earlier this year at $950. It’s currently on sale for $750 at a variety of stores: Best Buy, Walmart and others. Amazon, however, is currently offering the Galaxy Note 10 with free Galaxy Buds for $749.99. Those true-wireless earbuds would normally cost you $130 extra. (Samsung proper is also offering the free Buds, with …
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Game 7 of the World Series was a few hours away when Fanatics tech chief Matt Madrigal met me in the Manhattan office of his sports-gear company. His voice was filled with excitement as he talked about an expected surge in customer sales that late October day after the new champion won — he just wasn’t yet sure which team …
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Amazon on Monday said it plans to open its first new brand of grocery store in California next year, as it amps up its ambitious push to become a bigger name in food. “Amazon is opening a grocery store in Woodland Hills in 2020,” an Amazon spokesperson confirmed to CNET on Monday morning, soon after the company published four new …
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In the not-too-distant future, drones will crowd the skies. Quadcopters, hexacopters, octocopters, svelte fixed-wing drones that look like miniature airplanes, hulking aircraft designed to lift 500 pounds, self-piloting Boeing air taxis and DJI’s teensy Mavic Mini flying camera — they’ll all be competing for airspace. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine loves the idea. At the Commercial UAV Expo drone conference late …
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If you’re a veteran or an active duty military member in any branch of the Armed Forces, thank you for your service. But also, you should always be on the lookout for discounts aimed at service members. Here’s an especially valuable one: You can get a year of Amazon Prime for just $79. You need to jump on this quick, …
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