Amazon Sidewalk will be enabled by default on Echo devices (Engadget)

Last year, Amazon announced Sidewalk, a shared network designed to keep your smart devices connected beyond the reach of the typical WiFi router. In order to do that, it—ll... Read more »

The best Cyber Monday smart home gadget deals on Amazon (Chris Hachey/Boy Genius Report)

For the tech-obsessed person on your holiday gift list, you have to be shopping on Cyber Monday. Because we know that they’ll be checking out the deals, you should... Read more »

The best Cyber Monday laptop deals on Amazon (Chris Hachey/Boy Genius Report)

It’s wild to think about how much money you can save if you did all of your shopping on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There are so many deals... Read more »

Top 10 best-selling Cyber Monday 2020 deals on Amazon’s whole site (Maren Estrada/Boy Genius Report)

Amazon’s Cyber Monday 2020 sale has been incredible, with deep discounts on everything from gadgets and gizmos to Purell and FDA-authorized KN95 masks that NIOSH says work better than... Read more »

Amazon to stream NFL game on Dec. 26 exclusively on Prime Video; playoff game also confirmed (Kurt Schlosser/GeekWire)

Amazon’s streaming schedule is getting busier in the later weeks of the NFL season as the tech giant and the league announced Monday that a week 16 matchup between... Read more »

Goodbye, Android: Why I’m switching to Apple’s iPhone after more than a decade with Google (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Goodbye, Android. Hey, Siri. After more than a decade of dedication to Google’s mobile operating system, I’m leaving for Apple. I don’t have a problem with Android. But I’m... Read more »

Global Smartphone Sales Declined 5.7% in Third Quarter of 2020 (Slashdot)

Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totaled 366 million units in the third quarter of 2020, down 5.7% from the third quarter of 2019, according to Gartner. Overall global mobile... Read more »

WestRiver Group will sell debt investment business to Silicon Valley Bank (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)

Seattle investment firm WestRiver Group agreed to sell its debt investment business to Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group, the parent company of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). The deal will... Read more »

Amazon details cause of AWS outage that hobbled thousands of online sites and services (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

A “relatively small addition of capacity” to the Amazon Kinesis real-time data processing service triggered a widespread Amazon Web Services outage last week, the company said in a detailed... Read more »

Slack deal would pit Salesforce against Microsoft, with Tableau acquisition as a potential blueprint (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

Slack could gain new inroads to enterprise customers, and access to additional sales and marketing horsepower, if reports of its impending acquisition by Salesforce come to fruition. The combination... Read more »
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