Best Buy has sporadically had some big discounts on Logitech’s UE Roll 2 Bluetooth speaker, and now Amazon has matched the low price for this flying-saucer-shaped wireless speaker that’s also fully waterproof. You can pick it up in blue or green for $55, or $45 off its list price. We saw the earlier UE Roll …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. And find more great buys on the CNET Deals page. Enlarge Image Amazon I use an iPhone 6s Plus, and I like it just fine. But the time will come when I need …
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Twitter got sacked big time when it lost out to Amazon in a livestreaming deal with the National Football League this season. We learned Tuesday the social network had been outmaneuvered, after the league chose e-commerce goliath Amazon to stream 10 “Thursday Night Football” games this year. The deal was reportedly valued at $50 million — five times more than …
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We saw this same deal back in February, but now it’s returned. Logitech‘s Harmony Smart Control universal remote may not be as fancy as its touchscreen Harmony Elite, but we’ve always thought it was the better value — and it’s on sale right now at a Black Friday-like price of $70 (its list price is $130 but it usually sells …
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Apple Pay so far hasn’t inspired people to burn their wallets, but there’s one type of newer digital payment that’s gaining traction. Visa on Thursday said Visa Checkout now has over 20 million enrolled customers. That’s double the 10 million of around the same time last year, but still a fraction of Visa’s 2.5 billion total issued cards. With the …
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Showtime now lets subscribers download anything in its streaming app to a phone, freeing you up to watch when you’re on a plane ride or suffering through zero connectivity. (Just plan in advance.) The network is following in the footsteps of Netflix and Amazon, which offer the perk for parts of their potpourri catalog. Amazon’s subscription video service has long …
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Get ready for some Amazon Prime live-streaming football. The online retailer won a bidding war among Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube to snag the global streaming rights for 10 Thursday night National Football League games for $50 million. That price is five times more than Twitter paid last season. We debate why Amazon spent so much and what the company …
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With Twitter striking out on streaming NFL football, it’s now shifting its focus back to baseball. The social network on Wednesday released its schedule of live-streaming Major League Baseball games in April. The action starts this Friday as the defending World Series champion Chicago Cubs take on the Milwaukee Brewers. The weekly streams are part of a deal Twitter struck …
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With a new live TV service, YouTube is wagering young people are as hooked on their phones for a full TV meal as they are for video snacks. YouTube TV launches Wednesday, offering a “skinny bundle” of about 50 live TV networks online for $35 a month, starting in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and the San Francisco. The …
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It’s game on for Amazon. The internet retail giant has reached a deal with the National Football League to stream 10 “Thursday Night Football” games during the coming season, an Amazon representative said Tuesday. The one-year pact is reported at about $50 million. Amazon was in a bidding war for the NFL streaming rights with Facebook, YouTube and Twitter — …
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