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Target Will Match Amazon Prices on the Spot! Here is How to Get that Amazon Price at Target

We’ve all done the in-store/Amazon price matching game: perusing the aisles of a nearby retailer and then whipping out our smartphones to see if we can find better online prices at Amazon. Well Target wants everyone to know how to get Amazon prices at Target: just ask. They have announced that they will match prices of Amazon, all year round. And Target is not stopping with Amazon, they will also price match qualifying merchandise to the prices advertised on the websites of Best Buy, Toys R Us {Ed. note: as of March, 2018, Toys R Us is closing for good}, and Walmart!

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Washington Post Columnist Suzi Parker Erroneously Reports Satirical Story About Sarah Palin Taking Host Position with Al Jazeera

The hashtag #SuziParkerScoops is swirling around Twitter in response to Washington Post columnist Suzi Parker reporting that Sarah Palin will be the new host for the Al Jazeera America channel. To be clear, Sarah Palin is not the new host. It was just last month that a satirical article from the Onion named North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un the Sexiest Man Alive for 2012, causing Asian media to report the story as if it were real.

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Android People App on Google 4.2 Operating System Jelly Bean Omits Entire Month of December from Calendar

If your Android is operating on the 4.2 operating system, AKA Jelly Bean, you may notice something in your calendar is missing – the entire month of December. Those running the 4.2 operating system on the Nexus 4 device, Nexus 10 device, Nexus 7 tablet and Galaxy Nexus smartphones have reported the issue.

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How to Edit Comments on Facebook

Ever leave a comment on Facebook, only to realize that you embarrassingly misspelled a word, or perhaps the comment sounded a bit more harsh in written form than was intended? Sure, you could delete it and write it again, but how much easier would it be to just edit that comment? Well, Facebook has a fix for that: all you have to do is click an icon and the comment will be opened for you (and just you as the commenter) to edit.

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Reading the New York Times and Buzzfeed Directly on Facebook

When you are scrolling through your newsfeed on Facebook and see an interesting article someone has shared – a dispatch from a war zone from the New York Times, for instance, or a listicle about the top five reasons why flossing in your 20s is better than flossing in your 30s from Buzzfeed – you are burdened with the task of clicking on that link and waiting a few seconds for the article to load. Now imagine a world in which shared articles are posted in their entirety on Facebook, much like the videos that automatically start playing as you scroll down your feed, which would mean that you never even have to leave the Facebook universe to read whatever your friends are sharing. Whether this sounds great or frightening probably depends on whether you work in the media industry.

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New Facebook Safety Check Offers Check-in for Users in Disaster Zones

There are a million worries surrounding Facebook, ranging from its privacy policies to its stock price, but every so often the social media leviathan introduces a new feature that is (probably) unambiguously good. It’s called “Safety Check,” or more expansively “Facebook Safety Check,” and it allows users to report their status if they are located in a disaster zone. It could potentially go a long way in providing crucial information to account holders who have loved one’s in an area of upheaval – social, natural, or otherwise. Here is how Facebook Safety Check works.

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PayPal Leaves eBay for Greener Pastures and Own Stock Offering

After 12 years together, eBay and PayPal will go their separate ways next year. Ever since eBay acquired PayPal for $1.3 billion in 2002, the two companies have been deeply intertwined, serving as the twin pillars of the eBay tech behemoth. The highly lucrative PayPal, which after the split will be a publicly traded company, will now have to make its way alone. Why did eBay and PayPal split? Is it a good idea? And what does the decision mean for you?

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Social Media Command Centers the Next Big Thing in Customer Service

Social media command centers, staffed with social media first responders known as “social care representatives” are being implemented by companies who grasp what many brands fail to recognize: that social media is a real-time customer service voice that brands can be used for social media successes, or ignored and turned into public social media disasters. Airlines, in particular, are jumping on board.

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Buy Google Glass Online – But Today Only

If you weren’t able to be a beta tester for Google Glass, today is your lucky day. Today you can buy Google Glass online – see the link at the end of the article. Google Glass is going on sale today to the general public. The only problem is that it is only on sale today.

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FireTV: Amazon’s Effort to Take on Apple TV

Amazon has launched their own competitor to Apple TV known as fireTV. Like its competitors it offers streaming video directly to ones television through an internet connection. Amazon hopes to improve upon competitors and obviously take a bite out of the streaming market.

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Facebook Acquires Virtual Reality Technology Oculus VR

On his facebook page, Mark Zuckerberg has announced the purchase of Oculus VR, a virtual reality technology company. This technology is not just something that is theoretical but has been tested and has wowed many who have used it.

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Wireless Charging is Coming and It’s Going to be Big

Wireless charging, also known as witricity, isn’t exactly new. You might already use it to charge your cell phone by laying it on a pad. If you have an electric toothbrush, odds are good that it is charged wirelessly.

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Look Out for This Dangerous Apple ID Phishing Scam

A very real looking phishing scam has hit EA.com (the Electronic Arts games site) and Apple ID. Users should be extremely careful about any information that they submit while the problem is being investigated.

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Flappy Bird is Back, Well, not Yet

Last month fans of Flappy Bird were outraged when its maker pulled the app from online stores. The addictive game disappeared from existence although it didn’t actually disappear from devices that had previously downloaded it. Well now, Flappy Bird is back.

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How Much Will a New iPhone 5c Cost?

Apple has introduced a new version of the iPhone 5c. This cheaper iPhone is being introduced partly as Apple acknowledges that the demand for the colorful iPhone 5c was not as great as expected. When Apple announced the release of the iPhone 5s, it also came out with the cheaper, more colorful 5c.