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The 2016 holiday season has turned out to be a huge success for Amazon. First, the company walked away with nearly 37% of online sales during the November 1 to December 6 period. On Cyber Monday 2016, Handmade at Amazon saw a 200 percent increase in sales versus Cyber Monday 2015. And now, Amazon devices…
Amazon seems to be having a problem getting supplies of the Amazon Echo smart home speakers, as well as the smaller Echo Dot. As a result, it won’t be available online at Amazon.com until after Christmas. The only way to get one – and that’s only if you’re on the West Coast – is to…
Black Friday is getting a bit blurrier with each year as masses of physical and online retailers churn out deals by the thousands well before the actual day and long after its over. Historically, Black Friday has a much darker origin, as the name might suggest. The monicker was born on September 24, 1869, when the U.S….
Amazon keeps outdoing itself again and again. After announcing a slew of deals for Prime members, they’ve also launched a special ONE DAY offer for Amazon Prime. Shoppers can get a full year of Amazon Prime for just $79, but it’s only available on November 18. The company has announced this on their site as…
It seems that partnerships between tech companies and appliance makers are increasingly becoming more commonplace. Amazon has tied up with South Korean appliances giant LG Electronics to put Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa on its refrigerators. The companies are interested in using Alexa’s capabilities – specifically, voice recognition – to make LG’s appliance line really smart….
Today’s cars are getting smarter by the year. With internet connectivity coming standard on most new vehicles, several automakers and technology companies are entering this niche market to provide on-board infotainment, mapping and other applications. The hardware is already built into many cars, but it’s the integration with smartphones that makes this an extremely useful…
The second ever annual Amazon Prime Day is tomorrow, Tuesday July 12, 2016, and the company expects to roll out over 100,000 deals to its millions of Prime members in the U.S. and nine other countries around the world. Here’s what to expect: What: Amazon proudly announces “the biggest global Amazon event ever” – three…
