Month: February 2020
Amazon Go stores are getting bigger than ever
Amazon is expanding its reach into the real world with its biggest store launch yet. The company is set to open Amazon Go Grocery, an expanded version of its cashier-less shopping experience, in Seattle this week as it looks to cement its standing as a successful physical retailer. The new…
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Bird is testing Bird Pay, which lets users purchase items from local businesses using its main app
Another on-demand transport app is making a move into payments to expand the existing relationship with its customers (and subsequent margins that it makes from serving them). Bird today announced the launch of Bird Pay, a service that will let people use its app not just to hire e-scooters, but to…
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Where can you find the cheapest Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra deals to pre-order?
In a Venn diagram, with extortionate prices on one side and market-leading specs on the other, no other mobile phone fills the crossover as well as Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra deals. Launching with an RRP of £1,199 for the lowest-spec version, the Ultra smashed all of our pre-conceived beliefs of…
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Bird Pay tries to appease local businesses plagued by scooters
Bird, the electric scooter company, is testing a new in-app purchase capability called Bird Pay. It’s a move that’s meant to appease local business owners plagued by hoards of scooters dumped in front of their stores. The idea is to somehow coax more Bird riders into shops where they can…
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Best of Toy Fair (2020): Baby Yoda, ASMR for Kids, and More
We played with tons of gizmos at the annual trade show (for, uh, work reasons of course). Source
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AMD’s Ryzen CPU sales are totally destroying Intel’s – according to one retailer
AMD’s Ryzen processors have again pushed to new levels of dominance over Intel, at least going by one set of spilled stats from a German online retailer. Leaked figures from Mindfactory for week eight of 2020, which were shared on Twitter, indicate that AMD has a colossal market share of…
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