Over the Black Friday/Cyber Monday weekend, nearly every Amazon device — Fire TV sticks, Fire tablets, Echo speakers and so forth — was available at their lowest prices of the year. But the price of the brand-new Kindle Paperwhite — which has only been available since Nov. 7 — didn’t budge: It remained at $130. As of …
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Hey Cheeps, Rick is off today, so I’m filling in. He’ll be back in the deals saddle Monday, don’t worry. Looking for a “real” laptop that’s super thin and light, touchscreen-equipped yet powerful enough to handle whatever you want to throw at it? Today’s deal on a tablet could be for you. The 2018 Microsoft Surface Pro 6 convertible tablet …
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Cheapskates don’t use Microsoft Office. Or, at least, they don’t pay for it: Microsoft offers pretty decent freebie versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint that live in your browser. And let’s not forget the various free alternatives, such as Google Docs, LibreOffice and WPS Office. All that being said, I like a good deal, and this is a good deal. …
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Shayla Bruyneel, a 40-year-old Michigan mom, recalls how she used to pick up a phone to call her friends when she was younger. Today, her two sons use a kid version of Facebook Messenger. The boys, who are 9 and 6 years old, video chat with their friends or invite them over to play through Messenger Kids. They send selfies …
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Who says all the best deals happen on Black Friday? If you want a big, dirt-cheap TV, you’ve still got options. Like this one: For a limited time, and while supplies last, Walmart has the Sceptre U550CV-U 55-inch 4K Ultra HD TV for $229.99 shipped (plus tax). That’s the lowest price to date and a pretty amazing deal on a …
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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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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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Did you score a Black Friday or Cyber Monday deal on Bose’s popular QuietComfort 25 (aka QC25) noise-canceling headphones? (It’s not too late! For the rest of the day, Amazon has them for an all-time-low $110.) That deal’s about to get a little sweeter. See, the QC25 is very similar to the popular QC35, with one notable difference: The latter …
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Cyber Monday is here and many of the PlayStation bundles that went on sale last week are still available. If you’re curious about VR gaming, now could be the time to get a good deal on a PSVR. Updated, Nov. 26: Confirmed availability and pricing. I’ve written about VR a lot, but I really don’t use it all that much …
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Afraid you missed that great Black Friday deal on Amazon? Fear not — for the most part, Amazon’s Cyber Monday’s deals tend to just be extensions of Black Friday’s. And Amazon’s Cyber Monday Deals Week starts… Saturday. Yup, it starts tomorrow, Nov. 24, and runs through Saturday Dec. 1 (and as long as supplies last). Done with your shopping and feel …
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