Sonos has long been the king of the hill when it comes to multiroom audio. The earliest Sonos systems eased us into the digital age, making it easy to play our MP3 collection in every room of the house. Later, Sonos added countless streaming services so you could ditch your hard drive full of tracks. …
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SiriusXM is no longer just a satellite radio provider — the company has started streaming to Google smart speakers, so you can now listen at home via a Google Nest Hub (for what it’s worth, SiriusXM has been on Alexa for a while now). To celebrate, you can still make the most of the company’s Cyber Monday Deal and get a Google …
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Buying stuff using a phone keeps growing in popularity, with this holiday season showing just how big those little screens have become for retailers. On Cyber Monday, purchases via phones surged to $3.1 billion, helping make it the biggest online sales day in US history, reaching $9.4 billion, according to Adobe. That’s up from $7.9 billion last year. Purchasing peaked …
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Now a serious Black Friday and Cyber Monday contender, it’s time to stop thinking of eBay as just a place to have an online garage sale. Keep the online shopping giant’s eBay Deals page bookmarked through the end of Cyber Monday for surprisingly big deals on electronics, housewares, toys and all kinds of random goodies. Now with over a billion listings, the mega-merchant sources many of …
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Costco is well known for offering huge savings and a members-only shopping experience. Its Black Friday discounts are still live and worth checking out, with deals on game consoles, computers, TVs, sporting goods, appliances and more through Cyber Monday. Get a Fitbit Versa 2 bundle for $140, Xbox One S 1TB console bundle for $200 or a 75-inch Vizio P-Series Quantum X LCD TV for $1,600. …
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Pop quiz: What’s the difference between Black Friday and Cyber Monday? It’s a trick question: One happens on a Friday, the other happens three days later. Because, let’s face it, Cyber Monday is really just Black Friday, part 2. It’s an extension of the latter, the capper to weeks and weeks of Thanksgiving-season sales. (Next up: Weeks and weeks of …
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The kickoff to the holiday shopping season is going pretty much as expected, despite plenty of potential problems that could’ve pushed it off course. Tariffs, anti-Amazon sentiment, worries about the economy — nah, consumers are spending a whole lot to nab all those deals. Black Friday turned out to be the second-largest online sales day ever — shy of last …
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Yeesh, if you purchased this a few days ago for $26, move along, nothing to see here. Because this today-only Black Friday deal is even better. While supplies last, the Tribit XSound Go portable waterproof Bluetooth speaker is just $19.49, no promo code needed. It normally sells for $33, already a pretty stellar deal. But this is the lowest price I’ve …
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Oh, Black Friday, you silly misnamed consumerism-run-amok thing, you. As CNET’s resident Cheapskate, I’ve been surfing the Black Friday wave since it began a month ago, and I’ll reluctantly admit it: There are some damn good deals. I’ve been cataloging the latest and greatest in this list of the best Black Friday deals right now, but if I can get …
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Black Friday isn’t historically the best time to buy a laptop (that tends to be July-August), but that doesn’t mean a few good deals don’t sneak in. Case in point: Today only, and while supplies last, Amazon has the Acer Aspire 5 15.6-inch laptop for $399.99, by far the lowest price to date. See it at Amazon This is the …
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