Valentine’s Day is kind of nice, but it’s mostly a cloying, capitalist nightmare.
It makes sense, then, that the anti-Valentine’s Day community is a large and vocal one. V-Day skeptics aren’t bitter; they just hate Russell Stover samplers from …
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25 good tweets for people who hate Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is kind of nice, but it’s mostly a cloying, capitalist nightmare.
It makes sense, then, that the anti-Valentine’s Day community is a large and vocal one. V-Day skeptics aren’t bitter; they just hate Russell Stover samplers from …
Apple sets App Store sales record during holidays, despite disastrous quarter
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In the wake of a historic stock price drop, Apple surprised investors with some good news on Thursday.
Customers helped Apple set an App Store sales record during the 2018 holiday season. This news comes just one day after the company lowered revenue expectations for its holiday quarter, resulting in a loss of $57 billion in market value.
According to Apple, App Store customers spent more than $1.22 billion on app and game downloads and subscription purchases between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.
This is the most money ever spent in the App Store in a single week. In addition to the $1.22 billion record, Apple customers set a new single-day record. iPhone and iPad users spent more than $322 million on New Year’s Day. Read more…
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Apple’s App Store pulled in $1.22B over the holidays plus a record $322M on New Year’s
Apple today is sharing some good news in the wake of yesterday’s reveal of a significant, market-moving cut to its revenue forecast, attributed to declining iPhone sales in China’s slowing economy. The company says its App Store, at least, was having a good holiday. This year, customers spent $1.22 billion during the 2018 holiday season and […]
View More Apple’s App Store pulled in $1.22B over the holidays plus a record $322M on New Year’sPhilips Hue has been having a holiday outage, too
Alexa wasn’t the only thing that crashed over Christmas due to an influx of new users. Apparently, Philips Hue has been having an outage, as well. A multi-day outage, in fact. The company confirmed on Wednesday that customers were experiencing issues creating new accounts, logging in and linking their account to third parties. It blamed […]
View More Philips Hue has been having a holiday outage, tooWhite Elephant gets a wild twist at this family’s holiday party
Nothing tears families apart like an intense game of White Elephant, but this family takes things to another level of competition.
Also known as Yankee Swap or Dirty Santa, every player has to bring a wrapped gift. The game has players either c…
Amazon announces a record-breaking holiday, ‘tens of millions’ of new Prime subscribers
Amazon had another record-breaking holiday season, the retailer announced this morning. The company says it added “tens of millions” of people who signed up for Prime memberships, both paid and on a trial basis. Its worldwide customers also shopped and ordered more items than ever before, including “millions more Amazon devices” compared with this time […]
View More Amazon announces a record-breaking holiday, ‘tens of millions’ of new Prime subscribersPeople are tweeting surprise holiday visits, and they’re just heartwarming
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They begin in a similar way: Someone sneaks down a hallway, stealthily opens a door, quietly comes down stairs. Then everyone starts screaming and hugging and someone almost always cries.
Over the past few days, people have been tweeting videos recorded as they surprise their loved ones who didn’t expect them to be home for the holidays. The reveals have become so prevalent that Twitter made a moment to mark the trend.
Watch a selection of the surprise videos below and let them warm your heart.
It’s safe to say my family was surprised! I am beyond blessed to be able to come home for Christmas when some of us can’t. ❤️
Peep my dad’s face in the background 😂 pic.twitter.com/YQRrrgSBBv
— Brooke (@BrookeMoeder) December 23, 2018 Read more…
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View More People are tweeting surprise holiday visits, and they’re just heartwarmingThis story of a noisy neighbor — and cake — shows the power of kindness over anger
Call it the Christmas Spirit: 2018 Edition.
Writer Candice Marie Benbow chose to handle what could have been a sticky situation with a neighbor with kindness, and, also, cake.
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Macaulay Culkin is home alone again in the new Google Assistant ad
Home Alone would have been a lot shorter of a movie if Kevin had the Google Assistant.
Macaulay Culkin got into the holiday spirit with a throwback video. With the help of the Google Assistant, he spent his day alone jumping on the bed, eat…
Happy Holidays, internet: Here are 5 hilarious seasonal cards to send your loved ones
The end of the year is almost here and I can’t think of better way to spread some holiday cheer than with a witty card.
Since everyone is so *extremely online* all the time, this year, we decided to create some delightful internet and pop culture-ins…
This year, foster a Christmas tree instead of throwing one away
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The weeks after Christmas always involve a brutal massacre — of trees.
New York City is already a hideous, odiferous noxious cesspool of waste. The city is magically even more toxic in the days following December 25. All along along our broken streets you’ll see the bodies of the Christmas dead: Balsam, Douglas Fir, Frasier Fir.
It doesn’t have to be this way. People can make a different choice: they can foster a lil’ Christmas tree and help it grow into a beautiful adult tree.
Fostering a Christmas tree isn’t so different from fostering, say, a pet. But, instead of taking care of some nasty cat you’re responsible for watering a silent plant. What a dream. Read more…
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