So far in this sale week, Apple’s Four-Day Savings Event has been another lame batch of gift cards on select products. Nothing to get too excited over if you’re looking for a real deal. Other retailers, on the other hand, haven’t let you down when it comes to Cyber Monday 2018. Whether it’s Apple AirPods, HomePod, iPad, iPhone or …
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The art of haggling is all but lost nowadays. On the internet, the price is the price — take it or leave it. Maybe not. PriceWaiter is a plug-in for Chrome and Firefox that lets you bid on items from various online stores. In other words, instead of paying the listed price, you can offer to pay, well, less. And …
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Cyber Monday is over, but some sales keep going. You can still get deep discounts on the LG V40, LG V30+ and LG G7, and a separate offer for a free $500 TV when you buy the V40. Plus, our favorite budget buy, the unlocked Moto G6, is on sale for $150, which is $100 off the regular price. And you can get a tiny …
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When it comes to AI, Qualcomm’s betting big. The company said on Wednesday that it plans to start a venture fund that will invest at least $100 million in early stage startups working on artificial intelligence. In particular, the fund will look at companies finding ways to do intensive data processing on devices like smartphones and security cameras instead of …
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The problem: You need a place to work, but space is at a premium in your apartment, bedroom, home office or wherever. The solution: For a limited time, and while supplies last, AGDirect via Amazon has the Aingoo Mobile Computer Desk for $34.19 with promo code 40PTCNET. Regular price: $57. And it’s never dipped below $43. Update: Sold out! This …
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The darling of retailers this holiday season is the smartphone. Following years of less-than-stellar sales through mobile devices, phones have now turned into reliable cash machines for online merchants looking to move as many TVs, toys and trinkets as possible during the busy shopping season. For nearly half of US holiday shopping, phones have become the default device for browsing …
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Welp, it’s a wrap. Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 are solidly in the rear-view mirror, and all those great sales on Chromecast, Roku, Nvidia Shield TV and most Fire TV streamers are over too. They’ve assumed their standard pricing, starting at $30 for the Roku Express and $35 for Chromecast and others. Deal hunters who don’t mind the Fire …
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Amazon’s holiday shopping weekend broke records, and this year’s Cyber Monday now stands as the company’s single biggest shopping day ever. The e-commerce behemoth didn’t provide exact sales numbers for the day, but revealed that customers on its US site ordered more than 180 million items during the five-day period from Thanksgiving Thursday through Cyber Monday (known as the Turkey …
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It’s Wednesday, so the big Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 sales are mostly gone. That goes for most retailers, including Target, but a few nice deals are still available today at Target.com. Most of them involve discounts on the Google Home Mini smart speaker with Google Assistant. There’s also a stray Bose bluetooth speaker deal still around. Let’s take …
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