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Amazon Prime benefits can only be shared with one other adult now (and four kids)

Amazon Prime is a subscription service that offers free 2-day or faster shipping on millions of items, as well the ability to stream thousands of movies and TV shows over the internet, borrow some Kindle eBooks, and listen to millions of tracks from Amazon Music. If you take advantage of enough of those services, the […]

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Amazon sold “hundreds of thousands” of Fire TV Sticks on Prime Day

Amazon held its first “Prime Day” on July 15th, using the company’s 20th anniversary as an excuse for a made-up sales holiday. While plenty of folks were disappointed with the quality of the deals, Amazon is calling its first Prime Day a big success… and promises to do another one in the future. So what […]

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Amazon Prime now includes free same-day shipping*

Amazon Prime subscribers may get access to streaming music, movies, and other perks. But Amazon’s $99-per year membership program started off as a way to get 2-day shipping on many items for an annual fee. Over the past few years a number of other companies have started working on (or launching) programs that could compete with […]

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eBay’s Amazon Prime-like customer loyalty program coming this year

Amazon Prime subscribers get free 2-day shipping on millions of items, plus a bunch of other perks including access to streaming movies and videos. But the $99 per year subscription fee might be a bit high for some. So Walmart, Newegg, and other retailers have been rolling out their own free shipping plans at lower […]

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Walmart to take on Amazon Prime with $50 per year free shipping

Walmart plans to take a page out of Amazon’s book and offer free shipping to subscribers who pay an annual fee. But Walmart’s service will be half the price of an Amazon Prime membership… and it also won’t include as many goodies. For $99 per year Amazon Prime members get free 2-day shipping on many […]

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Lilbits (3-20-2015): Amazon Unlocked could be Prime for Android apps and games

Amazon Prime is a service that lets you pay an annual fee to get free 2-day shipping and access to thousands of streaming movies, TV shows, eBooks, songs, eBooks, and other content. Soon it could also include access to Android apps that would normally cost money. Or maybe Amazon plans to launch a standalone service […]

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Deals of the Day (1-24-2015): Amazon Prime for $72

Amazon Prime membership grants subscribers access to free 2-day shipping on many items, access to online streaming of music, movies, and TV shows, and a range of other perks that makes it kind of unlike any other rewards or online media service around. Normally Amazon charges $99 per year for a Prime membership. But today […]

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Amazon Prime adds unlimited cloud photo storage

Amazon may have raised the price of a Prime membership to $99 this year, but the company keeps tacking on new features. Amazon Prime used to just be a $79 per year service that would get you free 2-day shipping on select items. Now it also includes access to a large library of streaming movies […]

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Lilbits (7-30-2014): Asus 11.6 inch Transformer Book T200 on the way

The Asus Transfomer Book T200 is an 11.6 inch tablet that comes with a keybaord dock that turns the tablet into a notebook. It’s powered by an Intel Atom Z3775 Bay Trail processor, features a 1366 x 768 pixel display, up to 64GB of built-in solid state storage, and some models have an extra 500GB […]