Looking forward to watching your favorite baseball team in 4K? Can’t wait to TiVo HBO’s 4K broadcasts of “Game of Thrones?” Excited to rebuy the “Lord of the Rings” (Extended Edition) box set on 4K Blu-ray? Don’t hold your breath. 4K TVs are falling in price with the speed of a runaway train, but 4K …
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Amazon said Tuesday it agreed to purchase Souq.com, the biggest e-commerce players in the Arab world. Souq, which means marketplace in Arabic, started in 2005 and now sells over 400,000 products including electronics, clothes and household goods. It claims to have millions of customer visits every day. The deal had been rumored to reach $650 million, which would make the …
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Amazon has reportedly delayed the launch of its checkout-less Amazon Go store as it works out kinks in the payments software. The store in Seattle was due to open this month, according the Wall Street Journal, but was postponed because the automatic payment system only works with a small number of customers at a time. The system reportedly has issues …
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If you’re looking for a new comedy to watch, try out “Catastrophe” on Amazon. Two seasons are already available to stream and the third will arrive on April 28. The first season has a Metacritic score of 83, while the second scored an 87 — that’s pretty impressive. A handful of movies, including “There Will Be Blood” and “Tommy Boy” …
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Now playing: Watch this: Amazon delivery drone makes US debut 1:00 Amazon Prime Air said Thursday it shipped its first package out in public in the US this week, marking another small step toward its goal of filling the skies with delivery drones. The e-commerce giant’s drone delivery arm has been testing flights for years, though due to federal regulations …
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Take a handful of budget phones. Cut their price even more. Voila — you’ve got another hit on Amazon. The online retailer said Thursday that it’s building on the popularity of its discounted phones program, called Prime Exclusive Phones, by adding two more devices to the lineup. Prime customers in the US can now preorder the Motorola Moto G5 Plus …
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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. The Chill is also available in black. Ten bucks! HMDX This has been a rough week for Amazon-based deals. First the rapid sellout …
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Amazon may be nearing one of its biggest acquisitions in years, this time with its eyes on growing in Middle East e-commerce. Reuters reported Wednesday that Amazon agreed in principle to buy Dubai-based Souq.com, one of the biggest e-retailers in the Arab world. The site, started in 2005, sells over 400,000 products including electronics, clothes and household goods. Wednesday’s story …
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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 Battop Like I said earlier this week (when that ding-dang cable organizer sold out so quickly), I love simple, effective, inexpensive …
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Imagine if Siri and Google Now had an app store filled with 7,000 extra tricks you could teach them for free. That’s the promise of Amazon’s cloud-based Alexa assistant on a phone, which has debuted in the Amazon shopping app for the iPhone and iPad, and on Huawei Mate 9 phones in the US, through a specialized app. The integration …
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