Amazon said Thursday that it will again be selling Apple TV and Google Chromecast devices, two video-streaming gadgets the e-commerce giant removed from its site two years ago and that compete with its own Fire TV products. “I can confirm that we are assorting Apple TV and Chromecast,” an Amazon spokeswoman told CNET on Thursday, …
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Apple promised it before the end of 2017, and just under the wire, it’s finally here. The Apple TV platform now supports Amazon Prime Video, thanks to a just-launched app. Amazon Prime Video support was promised at Apple’s WWDC conference in June. Its addition makes Apple TV, along with Roku, one of the most flexible streaming devices, especially now that …
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Amazon will ship handmade, local goods in select markets as part of Prime Now, the online retailer’s one- and two-hour delivery service, the company announced today. The service will be available in the following areas: Austin, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Portland, Raleigh, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle. The products will come from Amazon Handmade, a portion of …
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It’s been a long time coming, but Amazon has finally launched in Australia. The world’s largest e-tailer launched the full-fledged version of its Australian retail site on Monday, giving customers Down Under the opportunity to buy everything from gadgets to clothing at Amazon.com.au. (The site has hosted a Kindle store since 2013, but Aussies haven’t been able to buy anything …
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To watch the latest episode of “This is Us” on your Amazon Fire TV, all you have to do now is ask Alexa to play it. Amazon on Thursday expanded the capabilities of its voice assistant to work with third-party apps on its TV box. The initial list includes Bravo, CBS All Access, Hulu, NBC, Showtime and Sony PlayStation Vue. …
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Amazon broke its single-day worldwide sales record this Cyber Monday, the company said Wednesday. Granted, it would’ve been far more surprising if that hadn’t happened. The e-commerce giant has been growing fast and benefiting from consumers’ continued shift to online shopping. This means that, so far, every year brings new sales records for the company. You wouldn’t need to look …
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A phone these days is a lot of things: a tiny TV, a game console, a home for your Animoji farm. Despite years of retailer effort, though, it hasn’t functioned all that well as a storefront to sell you actual goods. The big kickoff to the holiday shopping season shows that may finally be changing. US sales on phones this …
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When Apple introduced iOS 11 in September, it boasted how new compression technology called HEVC shrinks your video files about 40 percent. On Tuesday, Firefox took a step to do even better. The latest Firefox test version, called Nightly, debuts compression technology called AV1 that Mozilla said makes video files 25 percent to 35 percent smaller than those compressed with …
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In early 2005, Charlie Tritschler, an Apple veteran, walked into an old law library in Palo Alto, California, where a small group of Amazon employees was working on a secret project and looking to bring him onboard. The space included floor-to-ceiling book stacks and the team worked at boxy carrel desks. But, incongruous to the setting, a table nearby held …
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Is a turkey coma hampering your Black Friday shopping? No worries. Cyber Monday gives you a second shot at the deals, and Amazon is just one of the many retailers rolling out new offerings for the so-called busiest online shopping day of the year. Amazon doesn’t stop at just Cyber Monday, on which the company broke a record last year with …
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