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Forever 21 Prepares for Bankruptcy

Forever 21 is reportedly preparing a bankruptcy filing.  If the fashion retailer files, the will join the ranks of other retailers who were thought to be solid, including Sears, The Limited, Wet Seal, Nine West, American Apparel, Claire's and Toys ‘R’ Us who who experienced a similar fate recently.   “There are some principles to success in retail and in marketing in general, and … if you fall out a line on those […]

todaySeptember 10, 2019

Home Improvement

Google and Amazon want to be the Uber for Handymen

Amazon and Google are vying to become the Uber for handymen and capitalize on the growth of the on-demand services industry. A recent Intuit survey estimates 7.6 million Americans will be working in the so-called "gig" economy by 2020, more than double the current total of 3.2 million people.   "This is a multibillion-dollar market, and clearly the incumbents have not done an effective job in providing a seamless, safe […]

todaySeptember 5, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Ikea Goes All In on Smart Home Tech

“We have decided to invest significantly in Home smart across Ikea to fast-forward the development. This is the biggest New Business we are establishing since the introduction of Children’s Ikea,” said Peter van der Poel, manager Ikea Range & Supply, aka, the box that sits above Ikea of Sweden within the complicated Ikea Group org chart.   The new business unit is helmed by the aptly-named Björn Block, and sits […]

todayAugust 22, 2019

Home Improvement

Ikea Ventures into Smart Home Design Market

“We have decided to invest significantly in Home smart across Ikea to fast-forward the development. This is the biggest New Business we are establishing since the introduction of Children’s Ikea,” said Peter van der Poel, manager Ikea Range & Supply, aka, the box that sits above Ikea of Sweden within the complicated Ikea Group org chart.   The new business unit is helmed by the aptly-named Björn Block, and sits […]

todayAugust 22, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Tech Deal Alert: Apple’s iPad Now Available for $299 at Best Buy

The latest iPad (sixth-generation, Wi-Fi) with 128GB of storage is $299.99 at Best Buy, the only retailer to currently offer it at this price.  This beats the best available out there by $30, and it’s quite a large price drop for Apple’s most affordable iPad. Usually, it costs around $100 to jump up from the 32GB option to the 128GB model, but it’ll only cost $50 to do that today. The 32GB iPad […]

todayAugust 19, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Amazon’s Scout Robots Are Now Delivering to So Cal Doors

Amazon has been testing its Scout delivery robots near its headquarters in Snohomish County, Washington, for a few months. Today, it announced that it’s expanding the program, and it’s set to start testing the robots in the Irvine, California, area on a larger scale.   To start, Amazon will only have “a small number of Amazon Scout devices,” which will only deliver packages on weekdays during daylight hours. Each Scout […]

todayAugust 12, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Amazon Renews The Expanse for Fifth Season

Last week at the Television Critics Association, Amazon announced that it has renewed its science fiction series The Expanse for a fifth season.   Last year, Amazon picked up the series for a fourth season after the Syfy Channel canceled it, and it announced at San Diego Comic-Con that the new season would debut in December 2019. Along with the news, Amazon released a new teaser for the upcoming fourth […]

todayAugust 1, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Fourth of July Tech Deals and Steals

Prices on tech tend to drop around each major US holiday, and with July 4th here, it's happening again.  These are the best deals that we’ve seen this week, courtesy The Verge. Phones Sony’s Xperia 1 is now available for preorder. The price is $949.99, which is admittedly not cheap for a phone, but if you order before July 12th, you’ll receive a free set of Sony’s 1000X M3 wireless […]

todayJuly 4, 2019

Health & Wellness

Is Amazon Making a Wearable that can Read Human Emotions?

Amazon is said to be working on a wrist-worn, voice-activated device that’s supposed to be able to read human emotions. This would be a rather novel health gadget, of the sort we’re more used to seeing in tenuous crowdfunding campaigns instead of from one of the world’s biggest tech companies.   Bloomberg has spoken to a source and reviewed internal Amazon documents, which reportedly show the Alexa voice software team […]

todayMay 30, 2019

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