Category: amazon prime

This week in tech history: Amazon’s 25th birthday

[ad_1] As Amazon has entered more industries, its size, scale and influence has exploded. From 2014 to 2018, revenue nearly tripled, from an already staggering $89 billion to $233 billion. And its profits have surged even more. Between 2007 and 2014, net income bounced around from a high of $1.15 billion in 2010 to a […]

Five ‘Star Trek’ movies come to Amazon Prime on July 31st

[ad_1] There’s more Star Trek available for streaming — although it might not be on the service you were expecting to use. Amazon is adding five pre-Abrams Star Trek movies to Prime Video in the US on July 31st. Two of them come from the cast of the original series (Star Trek IV: The Voyage […]

eBay promises ‘can’t-miss’ deals if Amazon crashes on Prime Day (again)

[ad_1] In fact, you might actually be crossing your fingers that Amazon’s servers buckle under the Prime Day pressure again. If the sale does force Amazon offline for a spell, that’ll trigger a bunch of “too-good-to-be-true” deals on eBay. As things stand, eBay says you can claim more than 50 percent off goods from the […]

Amazon’s StyleSnap puts fashion from photos in your shopping cart

[ad_1] To use StyleSnap, users click on the camera icon in the corner of the Alexa app and take a photo of the fashion look they hope to replicate. Amazon will then respond with a list of recommendations of similar items. By relying on deep-learning technology, StyleSnap can distinguish between different styles of clothing such […]

Amazon is reportedly interested in buying Boost Mobile

[ad_1] If helping to create a competitor is a necessary condition to get the Sprint/T-Mobile deal done, then perhaps Amazon can help. A report from Reuters suggests the retailer is interested in buying Boost Mobile from the combo, particularly because it would come with the ability to use T-Mobile’s network for six years. The unnamed […]

‘Too Old to Die Young’ is the first streaming series to make it to Cannes

[ad_1] The series is a moody crime drama that explores Los Angeles’s seedy lawless side, and it’s being hyped as the latest project by director Nicolas Winding Refn, who won best director at Cannes in 2011 for Drive. Refn is also behind the thriller Only God Forgives and The Neon Demon, both of which previously […]

Donald Glover’s new movie is streaming for free on Amazon

[ad_1] As of this writing, Childish Gambino is still performing live at Coachella (which you can watch on YouTube all weekend), but he also has a new movie premiering on Amazon Prime. Guava Island is available (in 4×3 aspect ratio — it’s a choice) for free for at least 18 hours, so if you’d like […]

Now Amazon’s Twitch Prime comes with a year of Switch Online

[ad_1] Subscribers don’t get the full year free up front, however, so read the fine print. Those interested will need to head to Twitch’s website to claim 30 days free first, then come back after 60 days to claim another nine months of access. So while it’s a year total free, anyone wanting to enjoy […]

‘Good Omens’ and the art of avoiding Armageddon

[ad_1] As the nuclear apocalypse looms over popular culture and consciousness, acclaimed fantasy author Neil Gaiman is preparing to launch Good Omens, a six-episode Amazon Prime series based on the 1990 novel he wrote in partnership with Terry Pratchett. Good Omens doesn’t imagine an Earth ravaged by nukes, but instead sees it scheduled for destruction […]

buying into the Yankees Network

[ad_1] As Disney completes its acquisition of Fox there’s more than just the Marvel universe at stake. One condition of the purchase is that it will sell off Fox’s portfolio of regional sports networks, and as rumors late last year suggested, one interested party is Amazon. Reports from the New York Times and other outlets […]