Minggu, 14 Juli 2019

Is Walmart dropping a massive sale before Amazon Prime Day? - Digital Trends

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With Amazon Prime Day just around the corner, competing retailers have been scrambling to keep up. We’ve seen great deals come out of Walmart, Target, and Best Buy to rival the retail giant, with Target even going as far as trying to re-brand the event as their own. Walmart has been especially active in the days leading up to Prime Day 2019, dropping huge early savings on Google Nest products and 4K TVs before Amazon. It appeared as if Walmart’s early deals were simply an attempt to beat Amazon to the punch rather than competing with them directly on July 15, but a recent news story from Fox Business seems to suggest otherwise.

According to the report, Walmart is going to be dropping an enormous summer sale on Sunday, July 14, an entire day ahead of Amazon’s Prime Day. The report also says that Walmart’s Prime Day sale will run through Wednesday, an entire day longer than Amazon’s 48-hour event. This is purely speculation at this point considering Fox doesn’t actually cite any sources. However, if it is true, it could mean shoppers are in for the biggest Prime Day of their lives.

Amazon already announced that it will be offering some early access deals to Prime members starting at 3 p.m. on July 14, but that pre-Prime Day event could be quickly overshadowed if Walmart drops its sale early. If that does happen, it’s entirely likely that Prime Day will begin a lot earlier than we thought. Amazon has dominated the online retail space for a long time, but Walmart has been gaining trust in the market over the last few years. So if Walmart draws blood first with early deals, it is highly likely that Amazon will retaliate immediately by dropping its full list of deals.

Whether Walmart is actually dropping a sale or not remains unclear, but you can be sure they will be offering at least some sort of deals during Amazon’s Prime Day event. They have been offering deep discounts on Apple products pretty much all year long already, so you should be able to find Apple Watch and iPad deals through this upcoming Wednesday.

Early Acess Prime Day Deals from Amazon

Amazon released a rather impressive preview of their Prime Day deals earlier in the week, with the most accurate pricing information on its own devices. According to this sneak peek from the retail giant, Prime members will be able to access early deals by asking “Alexa, what are my deals?” These are scheduled to start today at 3 p.m. ET, but don’t know exactly what deals will be attached to this event. Our guess is that Amazon’s early deals will be on the Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle devices featured in the preview:

  • $25 off Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote, down to $15
  • $25 off Fire TV Stick 4K with Alexa Voice Remote, down to $25
  • $50 off Fire TV Cube, down to $70
  • $50 off Echo, down to $50
  • $70 off the Echo Show, down to $160
  • $20 off the Fire 7 tablet, down to just $30, or get two for $50—a savings of $50
  • $30 off the Fire HD 8 tablet, just $50, or get two for $80—$80 in savings total
  • $50 off the Fire HD 10 tablet, down to $100, or get two for $180—a $120 savings
  • $40 off the Fire 7 Kids Edition tablet, down to $60, or get two for $100—a $100 discount
  • Save $50 on the Fire HD 8 Kids Edition tablet, down to $80, or get two for $140—a $120 savings
  • Save $25 on Echo Dot Kids Edition, down to $45
  • $50 off Kindle Paperwhite, plus get a $5 eBook credit and three months free Kindle Unlimited, starting at just $85
  • $30 off the all-new Kindle, plus get a $5 eBook credit and three months free Kindle Unlimited, just $60
  • Get an Amazon Smart Plug and Echo for just $55
  • Up to $200 off eero WiFi systems
  • Up to $30 off Ring Video Doorbell, down to $70
  • $80 off Blink XT2 2-Cam System, down to $100
We strive to help our readers find the best deals on quality products and services, and we choose what we cover carefully and independently. The prices, details, and availability of the products and deals in this post may be subject to change at anytime. Be sure to check that they are still in effect before making a purchase.

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Huawei Plans Extensive Layoffs in the U.S. - The Wall Street Journal

People attend a tech conference in Paris in May. Huawei is planning to make job cuts at its U.S. operations. Photo: Marlene Awaad/Bloomberg News
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Huawei Technologies Co. is planning extensive layoffs at its U.S. operations, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Chinese technology giant continues to struggle with its American blacklisting.

The layoffs are expected to affect workers at Huawei’s U.S.-based research and development subsidiary, Futurewei Technologies, according to these people. The unit employs about 850 people in research labs across the U.S., including in Texas, California and Washington state.

Huawei declined to comment. The exact number of layoffs couldn't be determined, but one of the people said they were expected to be in the hundreds. Some of Huawei’s Chinese employees in the U.S. were being given the option of returning home and staying with the company, another person said.

Futurewei employees have faced restrictions communicating with colleagues in Huawei’s home offices in China following the May 16 Commerce Department decision to put Huawei on its so-called entity list, which blocked companies from supplying U.S.-sourced technology to Huawei without a license, according to these people.

Several employees have already been notified of their dismissal, while additional planned cuts could be announced soon, these people said.

The blacklisting has limited Huawei’s ability to buy critical U.S. components and software for its products, which include its smartphones and cellular base stations that are popular outside the U.S. Huawei bought $11 billion worth of American technology last year.

A reprieve for Huawei appeared to be in sight after President Trump said at the Group of 20 summit at Osaka, Japan, last month that he would allow some tech exports to the company to resume. Beijing sees an easing of restrictions on Huawei as a precondition for any trade deal with Washington.

Huawei’s Chinese Phones Are Also American

The U.S. blacklisting of Huawei is cutting off American businesses from a big client. WSJ’s Dan Strumpf looks at the American technology that has powered the Chinese company’s smartphones. Photo composite: Sharon Shi

On Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said the U.S. would begin granting export licenses to Huawei suppliers whose sales to the Chinese company don’t put national security at risk. Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has been urging U.S. suppliers to apply for licenses.

The U.S. says Huawei gear poses a security risk because the giant telecommunications company has no choice but to comply with demands from China’s authoritarian government to conduct cyber espionage on its behalf. Huawei says it is an independent company with no government ties and has challenged U.S. officials to provide evidence of espionage.

Huawei is the world’s largest maker of telecommunications equipment and the No. 2 vendor of smartphones, ahead of Apple Inc. and behind only Samsung Electronics Co. But despite its dominant position in many markets, the company is effectively blocked from selling its gear to major U.S. carriers following a 2012 Congressional report that said it could be a security risk. Huawei has denied this.

In the U.S., Huawei’s roughly 1,500 employees mainly handle equipment sales to rural wireless carriers across the country, while others do research for an array of technologies at Futurewei. Huawei employs more than 180,000 people world-wide.

But the Commerce Department’s May 16 entity listing complicated Futurewei’s ability to continue working with its home offices in China, because Futurewei’s R&D efforts could amount to U.S.-sourced technology under Huawei’s entity listing, these people said.

Under the listing’s rules, “any unlicensed transfer of any technology of any sort by anyone from the U.S. to Huawei is prohibited,” said Kevin Wolf, a partner at the law firm Akin Gump who was a Commerce Department official during the Obama administration.

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In addition to the U.S. blacklisting, Huawei is also contesting a pair of indictments by the U.S. on charges related to intellectual-property theft and violations of U.S. sanctions on Iran. Meanwhile, U.S. officials have been lobbying allies around the world to block Huawei from participating in their 5G network rollouts. That effort has had mixed success.

Analysts say the entity listing poses the most serious threat to Huawei given its reliance on American chips and other technology. Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei said last month that the measure would cost Huawei $30 billion in lost revenue this year and next. And the company’s international smartphone sales fell 40% in the month after the blacklisting was announced, though the decline has since moderated. Huawei had more than $100 billion in revenue last year, according to its annual report.

On Friday, Huawei Chairman Howard Liang said at a news conference at the company’s Shenzhen headquarters that the company has yet to see any benefit from Mr. Trump’s pledge to roll back export restrictions and said the Chinese firm should be removed from the entity list altogether.

Huawei smartphones run on Google’s Android operating system and among other restrictions, the entity listing prevents Google from licensing the software on future Huawei phone models. Though Huawei is working on its own replacement operating system, known as Hongmeng, Mr. Ren said in a recent interview with a French newspaper that it was originally designed for telecommunication networks and said “we don’t have a clear plan yet” for developing a software ecosystem around the operating system.

—Asa Fitch and Eli Binder contributed to this article.

Write to Dan Strumpf at daniel.strumpf@wsj.com

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Baby born at 7-Eleven at 7:11 on July 11 weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces - WTHR

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Rachel Langford had been seeing the numbers seven and 11 throughout her pregnancy but she didn’t realize it was foreshadowing.

At 7:11 on the evening of July 11, Langford gave birth to J’amie Brown inside a Missouri 7-Eleven.

Her birth weight? Seven pounds and 11 ounces.

“I thought it was weird at first, and I didn’t know that (the numbers) meant so much,” Landgford told CNN. “A lot of the times (during the pregnancy) I would look at the clock and it was 7:11.”

Langford, who also has a 6-year-old son, plans to tell the convenience store chain about J’amie’s timely birth.

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Sabtu, 13 Juli 2019

Amazon Prime Day is every day for Amazon.com - Quartz

Did you hear? Amazon Prime Day is coming! It’s almost here! Two days of epic deals! More than one million products on sale! The robots are readying! Lady Gaga is headlining!

Amazon Prime Day, for the uninitiated, is Amazon’s annual blow-out shopping event. Amazon first tried out Prime Day in July 2015, to mark its 20th birthday. The shopping holiday is a consummate American experience—think Black Friday, after-Christmas sales—and Amazon, two decades into the retail game, felt confident it could create one all its own.

“Step Aside Black Friday – Meet Prime Day,” read Amazon’s press release introducing the event.

The first Prime Day was a success, of course. Amazon was a giant—the giant—of online retail, and when it declared a shopping holiday, people paid attention. Over the past four years, Prime Day has grown from an Amazon-led festivity to summer’s biggest shopping event. Other retailers, eager or perhaps desperate to compete, have launched counter-programming, and in doing so legitimized Prime Day more than Amazon ever could.

This year Target, Best Buy, and Walmart are among the retailers entering the fray, with deals on everything from swimsuits to laptops to vacuum cleaners that run before, during, and after Prime Day. “Amazon Prime Day is no longer just about Amazon,” says Michelle Skupin, a spokesperson for coupons site RetailMeNot. “Amazon Prime Day is no longer just about Amazon,” says Michelle Skupin, a spokesperson for coupons site RetailMeNot.

Prime Day is still mostly about Amazon. Investment firm Cowen estimates 63 million US households, or half of all households in the country, subscribe to Prime, Amazon’s $119-a-year membership that includes free two-day shipping, streaming music, streaming video, and unlimited photo storage, among other perks. More than two-thirds of those Prime households plan to shop on Amazon for Prime Day(s) 2019, according to market research firm The NPD Group, compared to 15% who plan to check out deals from both Amazon and other retailers.

More to the point, every day is Prime Day for Amazon. The company commands 47% of US retail e-commerce sales, according to industry researcher e-Marketer, nearly eight times the share of e-Bay, Amazon’s closest competitor. While the rest of retail is still scrambling to compete on free two-day shipping, Amazon plans to make one-day delivery standard.

Since Amazon launched its first Prime Day its quarterly sales have more than doubled.

Prime Day isn’t really about the one million product sales or that new line of Lady Gaga cosmetics. It’s the illusion that for online shopping to be all about Amazon is a special event, rather than the norm. When Prime Day ends, 63 million US households will still have their Prime memberships pulling them back to Amazon.com, where the perks and deals last all year long.

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Amazon Prime Day Deals Start Today (Yes Today) Act Now to Get a $24.99 Fire TV Stick 4K & $29.99 Fire Tablets - Cord Cutters News, LLC

Amazon Prime Day won’t officially start until Monday, July 15th but that has not stopped Amazon from offering early deals. Starting today if you asked your Amazon Alexa smart speaker what “whats my deals” you will be able to get early access to some Prime Day deals. When I asked my Alexa what my deals are it offered me a $22 Echo Dot along with a $29.99 Fire 7 Tablet to name a few of the deals. All of the deals my Amazon Echo offered ended up being cheaper than the listing on Amazon.com

Update: Amazon is offering the Fire TV Stick 4K on sale for $24.99 (typically $49.99) through Echo speakers. Keep asking for more deals until your Echo offers you the $24.99 Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K. (This deal will likely be live on Amaozn.com tomorrow.)

One warning when you look at these deals in your Amazon Orders page it will still show the item at full price. If you click on the Order Details you will see the Order summary listing the discounted price. Example:

Amazon has also announced that starting on Sunday, July 14th select Prime Day deals will go live on Amazon.com early.

Wondering what you should expect from Prime Day 2019? Here are all the deals Amazon has announced so far:

Amazon Devices

Electronics

Video Games

Smart Home

Household Essentials

Fashion

 

Home & Kitchen

Home Improvement 

Major Appliances

Amazon Brands and Exclusives

Beauty, Health & Personal Care

Toys & Baby Products

 Sports & Outdoors

Automotive, Tools, Lawn & Garden

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Report of $5 billion Facebook settlement with FTC draws criticism - Axios

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News that the Federal Trade Commission has approved a roughly $5 billion fine against Facebook for privacy violations prompted instant outcry from some critics and lawmakers.

Why it matters: The FTC decision could have consequences for Facebook's billions of users — and frame the next stage of a global debate over how to regulate consumer privacy. A consensus that the settlement is weak would provide more ammo for proponents of new privacy laws — whereas an assessment that the penalties are serious would strengthen the hands of those who oppose new regulation.

Flashback: It has been 474 days since the FTC confirmed that it was investigating the company, following revelations that a researcher associated with consultancy Cambridge Analytica had swept up Facebook user data in a digital dragnet.

  • Critics charged that Facebook had violated a previous 2012 settlement with the FTC that required it to take more care when it came to user privacy, allowing the agency to levy greater penalties.
  • Now, the agency's three-commissioner Republican majority has reportedly signed off on a roughly $5 billion settlement, with its two Democrats voting against the deal.
  • The Department of Justice has to review the settlement before it becomes final.

What they're saying: The race to spin the potential settlement started as soon as the news broke.

Capitol Hill Democrats and advocates of aggressive new privacy regulation panned the deal.

  • Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) called the $5 billion fine, the largest in FTC history, a "tap on the wrist" for the mammoth Facebook.
  • Presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said the settlement was a "victory for Facebook."
  • Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) said that with "the FTC either unable or unwilling to put in place reasonable guardrails to ensure that user privacy and data are protected, it’s time for Congress to act.”

Industry groups and allies praised it.

  • "The FTC’s Facebook fine is unprecedented and will undoubtedly motivate better privacy practices by all businesses," said Carl Szabo, the general counsel of trade association NetChoice, in a statement.

What we don't know: The exact terms of the settlement, which is expected to put restrictions of some kind on Facebook's behavior that go beyond just the financial penalty.

  • Both the FTC and Facebook declined to comment.

Facebook's stock popped on the news, suggesting the markets didn't view it as a major blow to the social giant.

  • The company itself estimated that the fine in the case could be as high as $5 billion earlier this year.

Yes, but: Even with the FTC case settled, plenty of challenges will confront Facebook in the United States and abroad. That includes scrutiny from state attorneys general, the possibility of future antitrust action and a new tax on its revenues in France that has drawn scrutiny from the Trump administration.

The big picture: The fine has been hanging over the privacy debate in Washington for months, raising the question of whether regulators have enough power to rein in companies like Facebook.

  • Advocates for strong privacy laws have said the FTC should be able to pursue more significant penalties against companies on a first offense, for example, or have a broader ambit to write regulations.

But momentum has seriously slowed for a new national law.

  • Last month, a top lawmaker on the Senate Commerce Committee backed away from a bipartisan panel that was seen as one serious effort to negotiate a privacy bill with broad support.

The bottom line: The approved settlement may be record-setting, but it looks less imposing in the context of Facebook's revenue, which was $15 billion for the most recently reported quarter. Any teeth in the accord are more likely to lie in restrictions placed on Facebook's behavior — and whether the deal lights a fire under lawmakers working on the privacy issue.

Go deeper: Our guide to reading a settlement when it's finalized and released

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Facebook's $5B FTC fine was so laughable its stock price went UP after the announcement - Boing Boing

In 2011, the US Federal Trade Commission put Facebook under consent decree after the company "deceived consumers by telling them they could keep their information on Facebook private, and then repeatedly [allowed] it to be shared and made public."

The way the FTC generally works is that if it catches a company doing something terrible, it issues one of these "consent decrees" which amount to, "don't do it again, or we'll take the company away."

But Facebook did it again. Hard. And rather than shutting Facebook down, the FTC fined them $5B, which may sound like a lot, it's only about 30% of the revenue from a single quarter and less than a quarter of the company's annual profits. It's basically a license fee for criminality, a tax on lawbreaking that allows the company to retain the vast majority of its profits from criminal activities.

And the street knows it. After the FTC announced the fine, Facebook's share price went up.

And as Peter Kafka notes, regulatory compliance costs aren’t exactly a deterrent either: Facebook will pay the fine, eat the cost of a few more lawyers and PR people to ensure compliance with this new order, and carry on with the business of, uh, issuing a new worldwide currency while exposing underpaid contractors to horrifying videos of people being murdered for $15 an hour.

Facebook’s $5 billion FTC fine is an embarrassing joke [Nilay Patel/The Verge]

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