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Booming edtech M&A activity brings consolidation to a fragmented sector
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to force teachers, students and parents to adopt new technologies, edtech’s total addressable market has massively grown in the last several months. The shift has…
Amazon’s latest Prime perk is free shipping on its deals site Woot!
Eight years after Amazon snatched up the daily deals site Woot!, the retailer is now leveraging the site to serve as another perk for Prime members. Woot! this morning announced…
Woot Founder’s Next Project Is A New Daily Deals Site Called ‘Meh.’
You can’t keep Matt Rutledge down. At least not for long. And goddammit, if he wants to sell you one item a day at an unbelievably discounted price, and to…
Five Woot Execs Check Out, As Daily Deals Site Feels The Strain Under Owner Amazon
Woot, the daily deals site that Amazon bought in 2010 for $110 million, built a reputation for its “pile ’em high, sell ’em cheap” business model for shifting goods. Now,…
Some Refurbished Xooms Could Put Personal Data In The Wrong Hands
Maybe it was too thick, maybe it was too heavy, maybe you just didn’t like Honeycomb. Regardless of your reasoning, you may want to keep your eyes peeled on your…
Woot Offers TouchPad Buyers Star Wars Jokes And Partial Refund
Before the TouchPad dove head first into the bargain bin, HP tried a little pricing experiment. Early in August, they dropped the TouchPad’s price by $50, and very shortly after,…
Wow. Woot has a ringer today in a refurbished 3G Kindle. $90 will net buyers the previous generation Kindle, but at least the more pricey 3G wireless model. Even though…
WOOT! I mean Woot has the Viewsonic G Android tablet for you and yours at the low low price of $279.99. It’s an Android 2.2 device with multi-touch and is…
Woot has a great deal going on today with a refurb Roku HD Media costing only $59. That’s $40 off the MSRP, kiddies. It’s an amazingly refined product with an…
Woot To The AP: Nice Story About Our Sale — You Now Owe Us $17.50
Gotta love those guys at Woot. They just sold to Amazon for $110 million, but that’s not stopping them from calling anyone out as they see fit. In this case,…
Woot's Deal Of The Day: Woot! — Amazon Buys It. Price? $110 Million
Woot has been acquired by Amazon, as they briefly note on their blog today with a big “woot!” Well, okay, their exact words were “Holy crap!” This is a great…
A TC Teardown: What Makes Groupon Tick
Editor’s note: Group buying sites are growing like mushrooms. In this teardown, guest author Steven Carpenter goes through a detailed teardown of the largest social commerce site, Groupon, and its…
This is Rubber Duck, it looks like we got ourselves a Woot Off
Heads up bargain hunters, it looks like those crazy wooters are at it again. That’s right, we got ourselves a woot off.
Blu-ray won the format war. I was wrong and Ben was right. Oh well. At least Blu-ray players are finally dropping down in price. Today’s Woot is a $79 Sammy…
The TiVo Premiere will be here real soon so it isn’t much of a surprise to see a Series 3 on Woot. You might want to consider it, too. The…
Need a TV for the bedroom, rumpus room, or home office but don’t want to spend a penny more than $129.99 plus $5 for shipping? Then this is the perfect…
Facebook Beacon Done Right? Retailers Start Embracing Blippy.
Readers seem pretty split about what to think of Blippy, the service which allows you to share your credit card purchases online. About half think it’s the next logical step…
A Great Deal On A Handgun. Woot!
A few weeks ago, Woot opened up a new section of its site called Woot Deals. This area marked a departure for the service because it is run by Woot…
Woot! Bushnell handheld GPS with NEXRAD weather data for $100
Weird. I just got done blasting through the entire season of Storm Chasers (watched the final episode this morning). In just about every storm chaser’s vehicle, there’s a laptop set…
Digg For Bargains: Deals.Woot Is Now Open To The Public
Woot, the popular bargain site that offers one good (sometimes great) deal a day, has just launched a new portal at deals.Woot. The new site is a fairly major departure…
Woot! Refurbished Gateway 11.6-inch netbook with AMD CPU for $280
Woot.com has a pretty good deal on the refurbished 11.6-inch Gateway LT3103 for $280. This machine opts for an AMD processor over an Intel Atom, so you’ll get a little…
Whoa, whoa, whoa. You can use your computer to watch TV now? These machines can do anything! To prove that point, Woot.com is selling the ATI TV Wonder USB Digital…
The only thing that scares me more than cleaning is robots, so I’m gonna sit this one out. But if you’re not afraid of robots or refurbished technology products, then…
Woot! Refurbished 11.6-inch Acer Aspire One netbook for $250
Friday, huh? Just got paid, did you? Why not divert $250 of that check toward this 11.6-inch netbook? Come on, you’re making good money now right? When’s the last time…
Maybe you need a 19-inch HDTV for your den, office, or rumpus room. I don’t know. I really don’t want to get in the middle of a conversation that should…
Some people are jerks about their AV gear. They simply must have certain brands. If that’s you and Pioneer is your company of choice, head over to Woot for a…
Remember desktop PCs? People used to use them before laptops were powerful. Some people still use them today, believe it or not! I have one – ha! If you want…
Sometimes you just want a sack o’ crap MP3 player to take to the gym. If that’s the case, you’ll be hard pressed to find a better deal than the…
Woot! Philips Prestigo universal remote with 1.4-inch LCD for $20
Woot.com is selling the 8-device Philips “Prestigo” universal remote for $20 plus $5 shipping, today only. It normally sells for $70 and up elsewhere, so this is a pretty nice…