JioSaavn becomes India’s answer to Spotify and Apple Music

India finally has its answer to Spotify after Reliance Jio merged its music service with Saavn, the startup it acquired earlier this year. The deal itself isn’t new — it was announced back in March — but it has reached its logical conclusion after two apps were merged to create a single entity, JioSaavn, which is […]

View More JioSaavn becomes India’s answer to Spotify and Apple Music

Walmart in-store shoppers can now order and pay for online orders

Walmart this morning announced a new plan to help its retail store customers complete their purchases — even if the items they want aren’t available on the store’s shelves. The retailer says it will arm its sales associates with a new in-store app that will allow them to assist shoppers by helping them find and […]

View More Walmart in-store shoppers can now order and pay for online orders

Get the iRobot Roomba 670 for $100 off at Walmart

TwitterFacebook

While some household chores can be taken care of occasionally or even on a weekly basis, vacuuming is one of those tasks that feels never finished. Probably because almost as soon as we finish, we’re back to walking all over our nice clean floor. Point being—ain’t nobody got time to constantly haul out the vacuum every time someone forgets to take their shoes off, or the cat decides to hang out in the living room. Hence why you get an iRobot Roomba 670—which is now on sale for $100 off at Walmart, thanks to an extended Black Friday sale. 

The iRobot Roomba 670 is the newest of the 600 series super-popular robot models, and the tool that’s gonna remove the hassle factor from your daily cleaning routine. Read more…

More about Walmart, Roomba, Irobot, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday

View More Get the iRobot Roomba 670 for $100 off at Walmart

The Google Home Mini is on sale for $25 at Walmart, but you better hurry

TwitterFacebook

Googling a question you don’t know the answer to is just about as second nature as flinching when something’s flying at your face. 

So if you could give the gift of hands-free Google anytime, anywhere in the house, why wouldn’t you? The Google Home Mini is only $25 at Walmart for Black Friday, which is basically half off. If that’s not the best stocking stuffer idea you’ve ever heard, we don’t know what is.

SEE ALSO: All the best Black Friday 2018 sales, right in one place

The Google Home Mini brings hands-free help to any room in the house, and has the ability to connect to over 5,000 smart devices from 150 brands for homes that are all about that life. We’ve also heard that Google Assistant is actually a slightly smarter alternative to the Echo Dot, out-answering Alexa on tons of frequently asked questions. (But hey — like some people are just always going to be iPhone people, some people are just always going to be Amazon people. If you’re that person, the Echo Dot is on sale for $24 at Target today while it’s waiting to get restocked on Amazon.) Read more…

More about Walmart, Google Home, Black Friday, Mashable Shopping, and Shopping Solo

View More The Google Home Mini is on sale for $25 at Walmart, but you better hurry

Walmart in China is now testing same-day grocery delivery from Dada via WeChat

Walmart has just begun testing same-day grocery delivery called Walmart To Go in one of its stores in China, months after the American retail titan expanded grocery delivery in its homeland. The service is accessed through a mini-program within WeChat – the Tencent-owned messaging platform Walmart partnered with earlier this year, in order to better […]

View More Walmart in China is now testing same-day grocery delivery from Dada via WeChat

Best Black Friday deals at Walmart: Xbox One S, Instant Pot, iPad, and Samsung TVs

TwitterFacebook

It’s the most wonderful time of the year — for deals!

Black Friday is upon us, and ya’ll knew Walmart was gonna give us reason to hold onto our turkey leg hats as we dive after some of the best deals.    

Feeding right into our gadget-loving hearts, we see plenty of worthwhile snags in the tech department (hint: now’s definitely a good time to be in the market for a gaming system or TV.) There are also some great steals on everything from home goods and appliances, to kids toys and so much more.  

SEE ALSO: All the best Black Friday 2018 sales, right in one place

To make sure you don’t miss a thing, we’re rounding up the best of the best bargains Walmart is throwing at us this year.  Read more…

More about Walmart, Black Friday, Mashable Shopping, Shopping Topdeal, and Shopping Linkshare

View More Best Black Friday deals at Walmart: Xbox One S, Instant Pot, iPad, and Samsung TVs

Walmart passes Apple to become No. 3 online retailer in U.S.

Walmart has overtaken Apple to become the No. 3 online retailer in the U.S., according to a report this week from eMarketer. While Amazon still leads by a wide margin, accounting for 48 percent of e-commerce sales in 2018, Walmart – including also Sam’s Club and Jet.com – is poised to capture 4 percent of […]

View More Walmart passes Apple to become No. 3 online retailer in U.S.

If you’re going to buy an enormous TV, you better get one on sale for $1,000 off

TwitterFacebook

We’ve been talking a lot (okay, nonstop) about Black Friday this week, but we can’t help it — early Black Friday deals are just too exciting to pass up. But we’re about to do you one better. 

This 75-inch 4K TV from Sceptre is on sale for an insane $1,000 off today, slashing the price to just $799.99. And there you have it, folks: A discount so good that most Black Friday sales can’t even match it. Bada bing bada boom.

SEE ALSO: All the best Black Friday 2018 sales, right in one place

Most 75-inch 4K TVs from the big guys (you know, the Samsungs and LGs of the world) go for $1,500 or more — and on a good day, might go on sale for $1,200. Getting a 75-inch 4K TV for a measly $799.99 seems like a dream, but we’re just gonna go with it. Read more…

More about Walmart, Mashable Shopping, Consumer Tech, Shopping Linkshare, and Tech

View More If you’re going to buy an enormous TV, you better get one on sale for $1,000 off

Alibaba and Amazon move over, we visited JD.com connected grocery store in China

The arms race to build the future of grocery stores is heating up in China. To no one’s surprise, the main contestants are the country’s ecommerce titans Alibaba and JD.com, which are turning offline for growth. Online retail has flourished in China, but it still accounts for less than 20 percent of the nation’s overall consumption, according […]

View More Alibaba and Amazon move over, we visited JD.com connected grocery store in China

Walmart and Target embrace in-store mobile checkout for the holidays

Two of the U.S.’s largest brick-and-mortar retailers, Walmart and Target, are launching new mobile checkout systems in their stores to accommodate the influx of shoppers expected during the 2018 holiday season. Walmart says it’s expanding its “Check Out With Me” service to every Supercenter by Black Friday, while Target’s recently launched “Skip the Line” mobile […]

View More Walmart and Target embrace in-store mobile checkout for the holidays

Flipkart CEO Binny Bansal resigns over allegations of ‘serious personal misconduct’

Flipkart, the India-based e-commerce firm owned by Walmart, has lost CEO Binny Bansal after he resigned from the company following an investigation into “serious personal misconduct.” Bansal founded Flipkart in 2007 with Sachin Bansal (no relation) and he had served as its CEO since 2016, before going on to become CEO of the Flipkart Group […]

View More Flipkart CEO Binny Bansal resigns over allegations of ‘serious personal misconduct’