Category: Amazon News
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Deal Alert! Amazon’s New Fire HD 10 Tablet is On Sale For Just $94.99 – Stream Netflix, Hulu, Sling TV, & More
Looking for a great tablet that will let you use many of the popular streaming services you pay for? Want one that won’t break the bank? Right now, the 2023 Amazon Fire HD 10 tablet is on sale for just $94.99, down from the list price of $139.99. This is a great HD tablet with…
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Fire TV Brings Back Dedicated Music Section
Fire TV is first and foremost a tool to get access to streaming shows and movies. But less known is its ability to serve as a music player too. As AFTVnews’ Elias Saba points out, Amazon’s streaming device now includes a “Music & More” section as a standalone app that brings up songs, radio stations,…
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The New Fire TV Stick 4K Max Is On Sale
Back in October of 2023, Amazon released a new Fire TV Stick 4K Max that is a noticeable improvement in performance from the older model. The new Fire TV Stick 4K Max has 16GB of storage, WiFi 6E, and a quad-core 2GHz processor. The biggest improvement any will notice is the remote, which is the…
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Amazon Is Going All-In on Ads on the Fire TV & Prime Video, But Will This Scare Away Customers?
As we start 2024, Amazon is continuing its dive into all things ads on the Fire TV and Prime Video to drive up revenue. Late last year, Amazon added ads when you start your Fire TV. Later this month, Amazon will default all Prime Video customers to a new ad version unless they pay extra.…
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Amazon Freevee Launches a New Free Channel
Amazon Freevee launched a new channel today, which hosts all nine seasons of Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan. The new channel brings more than 160 episodes of the award-winning National Geographic canine series to Freevee. Fans can catch every episode, which features guest celebrities, including Jada Pinkett Smith, Denise Richards, Howie Mandel, and Virginia Madsen.…
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Amazon Is Laying off Hundreds of Prime Video & MGM Studios Employees
Today Amazon reportedly contacted staff at Prime Video and Amazon’s MGM Studios to announce a new round of layoffs. This is the newest round of layoffs at Prime Video, with the last round being in late 2022. According to Amazon’s video chief, Mike Hopkins, Amazon has “identified opportunities to reduce or discontinue investments in certain…
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Twitch Lays Off 500 Employees About 35% of Its Workforce
Today, Amazon reportedly laid off 500 employees at the live streaming service Twitch, or about 35% of its workforce, according to a report from Bloomberg. This comes as, in early 2023, Amazon laid off about 400 employees. Twitch focuses heavily on streaming live gaming streams but has expanded in recently years to stream a wide…
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Amazon, Pluto TV, Sling TV, & More Team Up on a New Open Casting Standard to Take on AirPlay & Chromecast
Today, Amazon announced a new open standard that will make casting video to your TV easier from your mobile device. This standard is meant to take on Chromecast and AirPlay two closed standards. This new feature is now available on the Echo Show 15 that will let you cast video from Amazon Prime Video. Also…
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Amazon Freevee Is Adding 2 New Free Live Channels in January 2024
Do you stream free movies and TV shows from Aamazon’s Freevee service? Good news this week they announced two new live channels coming in Janurary 2024. This comes as recently Freevee announced it will add new Warner Bros. channels coming to Freevee’s growing lineup of free live channels. They also announced more free channels would…
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Cutters Q&A: Fire TV Exec On the Big Themes of 2024, Like AI and More Free Services
The smart TV experience is poised to get a lot smarter this year. That’s thanks to the increased use of artificial intelligence, which will transform the home theater experience, according to Joshua Danovitz, director of Fire TV experience at Amazon. “In 2024, we’ll begin to see the impact that generative AI can have in the…