Amazon top exec Jeff Wilke on Tuesday pushed back against news reports that uncovered counterfeit, illegitimate and unsafe products on its website. “You can find anecdotes to support whatever conclusion you want,” Wilke, Amazon’s CEO of worldwide consumer, said on stage at the Wall Street Journal’s annual Tech Live conference in Laguna Beach, California, “but …
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My perennial advice for TV shoppers is to wait until the Black Friday season, around the end of November, for prices to drop before pulling the trigger on that fancy, new TV they’ve been eyeing. In 2019 that date seems to have come earlier than ever: Best Buy’s latest sale, through its high-end Magnolia subsidiary, basically guarantees Black Friday pricing …
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Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube have revolutionized how we watch TV by streaming movies and shows to your screen of choice. Then they went a step further to take the streaming out of streaming video, at least when it comes to phones and tablets. If anything, downloading a show gives you even more freedom because you can watch literally anywhere at …
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Amazon’s Prime Video app has returned to the App Store after mysteriously disappearing earlier Friday. In a statement, Amazon blamed the issue on a glitch. “Earlier today, there was a technical glitch that impacted the Prime Video app on iOS and TVOS devices,” an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement. “The issue has been resolved, and the Prime Video …
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There’s a reason Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world. It’s not just books, or televisions, speakers and appliances; sometimes it seems you can buy almost anything on Amazon, especially if you get carried away with Amazon Prime Day sales. And that means that we’re bound to see some weird things to purchase. We’ve assembled our current favorites …
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Amazon is defending its Amazon’s Choice product recommendations, following critical questions about the program from two Democratic US senators. In August, Sens. Bob Menendez and Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, asking him to provide details on how it selects products for Amazon’s Choice. They said they were concerned the program may be promoting inferior products …
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Mrs. Maisel amazed us, Game of Thrones played out and Chernobyl blew up. It’s been a massive year for television, but which of these TV shows will claim the honor of an Emmy? The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards take place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles tonight, Sunday, Sept. 22 and will be broadcast in the US by Fox starting at 8 …
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If you’re looking to pick up an iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, or any phone for that matter, T-Mobile has announced an exclusive partnership with Apple that allows Apple Card owners to receive 3% Daily Cash back on all purchases in-store. T-Mobile is the exclusive US wireless partner for Apple Card and, since the iPhone 11 …
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Amazon for the past few years has installed its bright orange delivery lockers in many corners of the US, from hotel lobbies to convenience stores to supermarkets. Now, it’s eyeing plans to install a lot more, hoping to use the lockers to speed up Prime shipments and bolster its logistics network. The e-commerce giant is quietly working to vastly expand its …
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Altice’s One customers will be getting another app to stream content to their cable box. On Monday the cable company, which in recent years has purchased rivals Optimum and Suddenlink, announced that it will be adding Amazon Prime Video to its cable box platform. Prime Video is the latest streaming video service to arrive on Altice One, with Netflix and …
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