Category: Amazon News
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Amazon Quietly Launched an Alexa Feature That Asks You Random Questions
Has your Echo Show ever randomly asked you whether you prefer summer or winter? Or ketchup vs. mayo? The questions show up as two images on the smart display that you have to decide between. Answer it, and you get the results from everyone else that participated. Don’t worry, it’s not a sinister plan to…
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Amazon Lets You Browse Your Digital Library and Get Recommendations For New Titles
Amazon on Wednesday launched “Your Books,” a new section on its site designed to help you dig through all the books you’ve read, purchased, borrowed or saved. The section will also offer personalized recommendations based on your library of e-books, which can be saved to wish lists. The page offers suggested filters to let you…
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Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour Hits Prime Video & Other Streaming Services With 3 New Songs
Prime Video, Vudu, and a host of other streaming services are celebrating Taylor Swift’s birthday by debuting an extended version of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour on December 13, which includes three bonus songs not shown in theaters. The extended version of the concert film will be available to rent on Prime Video on December…
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Deal Alert! Amazon’s 2023 Fire HD 10 Tablet is On Sale For $50 Off – 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 $89.99, down from the list price of $139.99. This is a great HD tablet with…
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Amazon Tests a Flat Rate Fee For Unlimited Grocery Delivery
Amazon is trying out a new subscription plan for unlimited grocery delivery and pickup for Prime members in select cities for $9.99 a month. Customers who sign up for this grocery subscription tier pay a flat rate of $9.99 per month for deliveries from Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods for orders over $35. Regardless of…
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Amazon’s Prime Video Is Getting Ready to Add Ads For All Subscribers – Here is Everything You Need to Know
Back in September, Amazon announced that in 2024 it will be adding ads to its base Prime Video plan. Now if you want to continue to get the ad-free experience you have now, you will have to pay extra. Now, Amazon has partnered with IPG Mediabrands to help manage these new ads. This partnership will…
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Amazon Backs Off as Premier League Signs Historic $8.5 Billion Deal Without Streaming
Amazon opted not to be part of Premier League’s historic $8.5 billion media deal, making it one of the few recent sports TV agreements that doesn’t include a major streaming component. England’s top-tier soccer league signed four-year agreements with Sky Sports and the U.K.’s TNT Sports, securing the domestic rights through the 2029 season in…
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Amazon’s Prime Video Will Start Streaming Live Boxing Matches
Prime Video and Premier Boxing Champions (PBC) announced a multiyear rights deal to stream 150 events. With this contract, Amazon and PBC will stream pay-per-view boxing events in the United States, with the first fight slated for March 2024. Additionally, in the United States and select countries, Prime Video will exclusively stream a PBC Championship Boxing series…
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Amazon Freevee Adds 16 Live Channels From Warner Bros. Discovery With More Coming Next Year
Today, Amazon and Warner Bros. Discovery announced a deal that will add 16 new Warner Bros. channels coming to Freevee’s growing lineup of free live channels. They also announced more free channels would be added in early 2024. Freevee is owned by Amazon and offers over 400 live TV channels and thousands of movies and…
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Amazon Internet Service Taps SpaceX to Help With Satellite Launch
Amazon on Friday said it signed a deal to use Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets to help launch satellites for its Project Kuiper internet initiative. The contract calls for three of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launches to carry Amazon’s low-Earth orbit satellites, which are necessary to beam down internet connectivity. Amazon had already purchased 77 rockets launches…