Amazon’s annual Prime Day sale will be back in two weeks and include more deals, come to more countries and last longer than in past years. Plus, the company is giving away a new Lexus. The sale will kick off on Monday, July 16, at noon Pacific and go on for 36 hours, up from 30 hours …
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Amazon Prime Day 2018 will bring big sales on July 16, according to leak
Amazon’s day (and a half) of deals may be less than a month away. According to a new leak, Amazon Prime Day starts July 16. The date was shown in a reportedly leaked Prime Day promo banner on Amazon’s UK site, and spotted by TechRadar. It seems like the banner was taken down sometime after. Amazon Prime Day 2018 date leaked …
Read More »Get a FenSens wireless parking sensor for $99.99
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. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! FenSens I’m all about car safety. You know full well how I feel about phone mounts, and when …
Read More »5 ways to make your Amazon Fire tablet better
I don’t know exact numbers, but I suspect some 80 bajillion people bought an Amazon Fire tablet on Black Friday or Cyber Monday. And why not? With prices ranging from $30 to $100, those babies were the bargain to beat. Now that you’ve got one, let’s make it better. Although the Fire tablets are pretty good out of the box, …
Read More »Best Buy’s ’20 Days of Doorbuster Deals’ starts Dec. 1
Best Buy is hoping that the element of surprise will drive customers hunting for deals in the run-up to the holidays this year. Over the next three weeks, Best Buy will unveil a new “doorbuster” deal each day. The retailer will kick things off Friday, Dec. 1, with an unnamed “Big-Screen Smart 4K TV,” and feature one product each day …
Read More »Cyber Monday helps Amazon break its single
Amazon broke its single-day worldwide sales record this Cyber Monday, the company said Wednesday. Granted, it would’ve been far more surprising if that hadn’t happened. The e-commerce giant has been growing fast and benefiting from consumers’ continued shift to online shopping. This means that, so far, every year brings new sales records for the company. You wouldn’t need to look …
Read More »Get an HP Pavilion Wave desktop PC for $269.99
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. Find more great buys on the CNET Deals page and follow the Cheapskate on Facebook and Twitter! It’s a new Bluetooth speaker, right? Nope, it’s an entire PC — and a speaker! Sarah Tew/CNET Whew! …
Read More »LG OLED TVs hit a new low price for Black Friday. Now’s the time to buy
UPDATE November 28, 2017: The price for the B7A series is now higher than it was during this sale. If you want to buy a new OLED TV now, it might be worth waiting for prices to fall again, but on the other hand, they might not get as low as they did during the sale described below. LG’s Black …
Read More »Cyber Monday sets mobile shopping record in US
A phone these days is a lot of things: a tiny TV, a game console, a home for your Animoji farm. Despite years of retailer effort, though, it hasn’t functioned all that well as a storefront to sell you actual goods. The big kickoff to the holiday shopping season shows that may finally be changing. US sales on phones this …
Read More »Tech companies ask FCC to keep net neutrality rules
More than 200 companies, including AirBnb, Reddit and Twitter, are urging the Federal Communications Commission to reconsider its plan to repeal its net neutrality regulations. In a letter addressed to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on Monday, the companies asked the agency to reverse course and scrap plans to roll back most of the Obama-era regulations that prevent broadband providers from messing …
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